There lived a man in Clonmines about twenty five years ago. He worked in Bannow with a farmer. He used to go to his work six days a week.He worked with the same farmer for over ten years. He was never sick. He swam across Bannow-Bay to his work in the morning, and home again at night no matter how dark the night was.He swan it across Winter and Summer for ten long (?) years, a distance of two miles. His name was John Neville, he lived along-side the water. He worked for three shillings a week.He lived alone in a thatched house. He used to get up in the morning, and put his clothes and boots in an oil cover and tie his clothes on his shoulders.He put them in an oil cover to keep them dry. When the clothes were tied on his shoulders, he swam across the Bay, when he used to reach the other side, he used to put on clothes and walk to his work about half a mile form the water. He lived to be a very old man.A man name John William Stafford lived in Kayle at the first of the Eighteenth century. He was a great horseman. He used to be present a tall hunts. He lived where Henry King is living now. He leaped out in a fork of a tree, and he often leaped over a hedge six feet high on horseback. One day the meet was in Piltown, where many English riders were at the hunt.

(1) Canon O'Sullivan was one night going into the Chapel in Carrig. He went up to the Altar and he heard footsteps following him up the Chapel. When the footsteps came to the middle of the aisle they turned and went back down the Church to the door.The Canon started to pray out loud and a loud mocking, sneering laugh was heard from the bottom of the Chapel. The Canon came down to the bottom of the Chapel and told the devil for it was he to go out.The footsteps went out in the door and to this day the same door was never opened.
(2) One time one of the Boyces died and the horse-hearse was ready to leave for Bannow graveyard when the horses saw something and would not move. The Priest was sent for and he blessed the hearse and the funeral went on all night. (Boyces were landlords of Bannow)
(3) One night John Roche of the Island was going down to the Island to look at nets which he had set. When he was crossing under Deveurix's he met a dark man whomhe did not know. The man tried to keep him talking.When John Roche went down to the Bar

slopes to the east or north east.
There is a ruined church in each of the following graveyards
Kilcavan, St Emogues, Ballinglee and Bannow. The graveyards in Carrig is at South Eastern side of the church, Grantstown grave yard is beside the Augustian church
Balloughton protestant church is situated in the graveyard.
The tombs in Bannow, Ballinglee, Kilcavan and in the old graveyard in Ballymitty are very old.
The tombs are stone and are very rudely carved but it is difficult to see the writhing on it for most of them are covered with moss. There is a small wooden cross at the head of each grave which comes from the undertakers with the coffin.
Most of the grave marks are stone but there are also some iron crosses to be seen. There are several people buried inside the ruins of the churchs. People always go to the graveyards where their

High Road (from Carrig to old Church of Bannow)Hill of Carrig -
descent from village towards Grange.Cross of Green Road -
where road of that name branches to Wellington Bridge.Hill of Toker -
passage (uphill) through Grange demesne beautifully bordered with beech trees.Hill of Graigue
Declinity to cross at Graigue for Newtown + cBlackhall Cross
Road to South leading to sea at Blackhall StrandBenny Bridge
Small bridge over stream through moor to sea.The Pound
Walled enclosure near Benny Bridge believed to have been used as a pound formerly.Rectory Cross
At gate of Rectory - branch Little Moor Road.Sweep of Haggard
Wide Cross Road - branch Haggard Road to sea.
A favourite stand for shows, picture tents + c School Cross
At Bannow Schoolhouse.Geneva Hill
Slope of road from bounds of Bannow through Brandane - part of which is called Geneva. (pron. Genaivy)Weeping Hill
Rise at lower end of Brandane from hollow at stream to Mr Staffords.Prickets Cross
At junction of Bay Road.The Boker Hill
Section of road near ruins of church in Brandane.

One of the finest specimens of early English architecture in Ireland is Dunbrdody Abbey, Co Wexford, which stands on a slight eminence overlooking the estuary of Waterford Harbour, near the junction of the rivers Nore and Barrow with the Suir. It is truly a venerable pile of ecclesiastical ruins, lovely in its desolation, still exhibiting that strength and stern grandeur which characterises most of the monastic buildings erected by the early English invaders. It was founded in A.D. 1182 by Hervey de Montmorisco, uncle of Strongbow. Hervey had acquired vast possessions in land in County Wexford and he bestowed large tracts of this land on the Cistercian Abbey of Buildwas in Shropshire for the purpose of founding a Cistercian Abbey at Dunbrody. The Charter for the founding of the Abbey is still preserved in the Bodleian Library, and was witnessed by Felix O'Dullany, Bishop of Ossory. The property with which Hervey endowed Dunbrody extended from Bannow to Kempul, now Campile with fishing weirs,

The only football matches in Bannow in olden times were played in Murrintown about fifty years ago.
The teams were picked from the different parishes.Bannow and Ballymitty formed one team. Teams were also entered from
Kilmannon Kilmore Rosslare Castlebridge Oulart and some other districts were played in Murrintown Sunday after Sunday until Tournament was finishedVery few of the members of these teams are still aliveThe men were picked according to their weight size and strength as skill and combination in play was a somewhat rare feature of football in those daysThey had point posts on each side of the Goal posts but before that they kicked from ditch to ditch.Hurling was scarcely ever a popular game in this part of the Country.
HANDBALL.This was the most popular Game in Carrig and there were many noted players in the area. They played with hard ball which was made locally. The local Ball alley which has been renovated in recent Years consisted of a front wall, two Side walls and had an earthen floor.

We were pulling into the Bay of Fethard. John Roche of the Isalnd and myself when we saw a big ship in full sail comign roung the point. It was a clear night and she was so close in that we knew it was none of the Fethard lads had her. We pulled along and when we got in to the Quay of Fethard there was no sign of a boat there and none of the Fethard lads had seen any boat in the bay.
From Thomas Crosbie (50), Farmhouse, Bannow 21st October 1937.

They say that when the city was buried ships from all parts used to come sailing in like before. One day a ship was sailing in for the Buried City and the captain sighted the city and could hardly believe it was the same Bannow for he heard tell of the sinking the City. He looked for a while and then asked one of the sailors to bring him his glasses. When the sailor gave him the glasses he looked again but the city was gone. The old people believed the city used appear once every seven years.

Almost every household in Bannow has a "trap" - a rather wide, flat, light spring car with very wide laces. The car is drawn by a pony which invariably trots at great speed - often carrying five persons. Donkeys draw smaller traps. The occupants of the traps sit with their legs hanging outside - even girls and women. In wet weather the women sit in body of trap which invariably has fine bed of dry straw covered with a rug.
Thos. Walsh N.J.

Vernegyle Road.This road runs from the School Cross at Bannow in a North Westerly direction to the Moor Cross. It serves 4 farm houses and two small thatched cottages. A narrow road.
New RoadTaking a turn to the left at the Moor Cross we come to another cross about 50 yds away. This Cross is known as Molly's Cross and the road westward therefrom is a wide one as far as Newtown Cross.
The road is called the New Road.
Quay RoadA narrow little-used road runs down to the shore of Bannow Bay at the Old Quay which contains remnants of a pier and huge ruins of a former store. This road is called the Quay Road. It is not presently in repair beyond the entrance to "the Cottage."
Newtown RoadThis road leads through townlands of Kiltra, Newtown and Brandane and drops sharply to the shore of the bay at the "Cockle Strand". it serves a number of imposing farmhouses and also several cottages. The Quay Road and Rath Road are branches to the West both terminating at the sea.

This story tells that when old Major Boyse of Bannow House died he was being buried. The four horses that were under the hearse were not able to pull the corpse.
There was a Catholic man near by and he took off his coat which had his rosary beads in its pocket and he laid it on the horses' backs and they immediately went ahead with the funeral.

(1) Stephen Roche (great grandfather of James Roche above) lived where Kinsella's are now living on the Hill of Graigue, Bannow.
He joined the Insurgents in '98 and fought in the battle of Tubberneering. He was wounded in the knee and was lame for the rest of his life. They used to call him Lame Stephen. One of that family married in The Moor and lived there till they were evicted. They were wrongly evicted because they went with the rent and it would not be taken.
The house was closed up and the land was divided between James Kane of the Pound and William Brown of the Moor. Brown lived where Cullens of the forge are living. The heap of stones near where Mrs. Sarah Monaghan lives is the ruins of the house.(2) John Kane of Brandane has a field over the strand at Blackhall. It is called the "Pepper Field".
The rent of this field was 3 grains of pepper and it used to be paid to Boyses the landlords.(3) There are three families who have rights on the green of Bannow.
Andy Cullen of the Bay has the right to keep a heap of manure there. You'll always see the heap of manure in the field. He can

The dip chicken is a small waterfowl which frequents "the pond " on Bannow Island. It resembles a chicken. When disturbed it dives at great speed and moving under the water rises after a short space to the surface. Its rapid appearance and disappearance earn its name.
When repeatedly fired on it does not come over the surface but moves along barely drawing its bill + nostril along the surface. A most difficult shot.

One night about twenty years ago a man named Simon Devereux was coming up the road from Bannow about half past eleven o'clock.
At the Little Moor Gate it rained a shower and he stopped in the ditch till it was over. He started again and the road was very sloppy. When he was coming about the School House

There are four holy wells that I know of, three in this parish and one outside the parish. The wells are in Kilcavan, Sheemogues, Bannow and there is on in Ambrosetown. I do not know of the townland in which they are situated. When the pattern is in the graveyard the people visit it but they have no special days. The well that is in Kilcavan is called after St Kevin. People that would have warts or their hands would go to the bb blessed well nine times and make the sign of the cross with the water In Kilavan every time

There were a priest one time going to hear a man's confession in the middle of of the night. As they were passing by an old ruins by the side of the road they heard grand singing. The name of the song was, "Arise Connie Cassie we will bundle and go." They waited some time listening to the singing and said they would go over and have a look. They went to the window, and saw two grey-hounds jumping out through the window and when they reached the man's house the man was dead, and ever since that this song was cried down. Those hounds were supposed to be devils. This happened in Carrick-on-Bannow.

used to boast " that he was reared in the finest farm of land a crow ever flew over".
All these men are dead long ago. Years ago also they used to come here from Bannow selling cockles nearly every day in the year. They used to travel in asses and carts.
Bannow is about twenty miles from this village. Several men used to come to the village on fair days years ago selling "Kishes of Brogues", one of these men was Willie Dooley, dead now many years ago.
Years ago it was the custom for millers to "toll" the meal, to pay themselves for the grinding, taking so much according to the amount of grinding done.
There were many names given to the different coins many of these are still used
A Shilling was a "Bob"
A Sixpence a "Tanner"
A Threepenny Bit a "Kid's Eye"
A Penny a "Wing"

The local fair for this (Carrig on -Bannow Parish) is now held in Wellingtonbridge about three Statute miles from here.
It is held on the last Friday of every month.Fair of Carrig -on Bannow.Some twenty five or thirty years ago the venue changed to Wellingtonbridge as it was considered more convenient for the transport of the Stock purchased owing to the opening of the new Railway line from Waterford to Rosslare.Established in 1864Carrig fair was established in 1864 and was for a considerable period regarded as the best fair in the South of Ireland.Buyers attended it from the towns of Waterford, New Ross and Wexford and it has been estimated that they purchased about 800 pigs on the occasion of each fair.Cattle and sheep were also sold considerable numbers but few horses were on offer
People came from Kilmore Clongeen Bridgetown Duncormack and even from the Hook over twenty miles distant to Carrig fair.
Transport of Stock purchasedThe pigs when bought had usually to be drven or carried to Ballyhack and chipped from there by steamer to Waterford

brought to court in Duncormick and offenders fined. Owing to the great value of the weed and the restrictions on the beach there were often disputes and fighting. A farmer in trying to bring an extra heavy load often got held up and as passages were narrow the way would be blocked and no others could come in or get out. That would cause a very severe fight. Even to delay talking or smoking would cause trouble. The woar was filled with a three "tag" sprong and this sprong was made locally in the forge. In winter time the weed was drawn to the headlands in the fields and was repeatedly turned. Sometimes sand was mixed with it. After harvest before ploughing the stubble or lea the woar was spread. In May it was drawn and put directly in the drills for mangold crop.There were various places for filling the woar and each tenant had to go to his own special place.Where "bank (local name for land beside sea)" was high "gaps" were cut in the cliff or bank to the beach:"Barry's Gap", "Harper's Gap" "Wade's Gap" are still to be seen but several are worn away at beach and others in disuse, The following were the places allotted to the various tenants
(now not strictly observed)
Long Gap :
Mr. John White, Farmhouse,
Mr Barry (Bannow ) (4 families)
Mr Tom Harpur (Bannow)
Mr Walsh (Seaview)

Rath RoadThis narrow rugged road drops to the sea from the Newtown Road near Mr Morris's.
A rath on the edge of the sea near its termination gives it its name.
Haggard RoadThis is a road leading from cross Road known as "Sweep of Haggard" to the sea, and turning East by the edge of the sea it passes over high cliff to the entrance to Blackhall Strand.
BlackHall RoadThis road runs from Blackhall Cross to the sea at a pretty strand (which is becoming increasingly popular) known as Blackhall Strand. Several farmhouses and cottages are by this road.
Moor RoadThis road runs from Rectory Cross (at gate of Rectory) to Moor Cross. It is narrow and rather spongy and gets its name from Moorish land through which it passes.
High RoadThis is the chief road of District coming directly from village of Carrig through Hill of Carrig, Grange, Graigue, Blackhall, The Moor, Haggard, Vernegyle, Bannow, Brandane and ending at Church lane which leads to old Church of Bannow
Its length is roughly about 4 English Miles.