night. There was another old beggar named Sarah Lally. She used to keep allot of dogs. She used to lock in the dogs when she used to go out begging. One day the dogs broke out, and went into her little hut, and broke and ate all she had. There was an old man who lived in Headford, named Mike Barret. He used to have whips tied around on a table, and you would pay a penny for these rings to fire at them. If you put the ring in, in the handle of the whip, you would get it. His wife used to gather the money.

Kille is my townland. It is in the parish and barony of Kilmaine. "Kille" means a church. St. Patrick built a church here when he first came to Kilmaine parish. There is a run of an old Abbey here still. It is said that the Saint founded a Covenant here and left the two sisters of Bishop Felartus here. The Saint left the Bishop in Donaghpatrick between Shrule and Headford.
There is an old graveyard in this townland also.

In the townland of Headford, in the parish of Annaduff, Co Leitrim there is a castle which is known as Ballycloran.It was once a very stately building but it is now

During the Black and Tan was a very sad and memorable event occured in the village of Gneeveguilla. About eleven o'clock on the morning of the 23rd of December nineteen twenty, six or seven lorries of Auxiliaries arrived in the village. They surrounded it from all sides, so that no one could escape, and some of them came into the village, and searched every house in it. Reeks of turf were knocked down, hay was thrown out of barns, stacks of oats were thrown about. The auxiliaries said that they were looking for mails which were taken from Headford railway station sometime before that. All men were taken out and kept busy all day. All inhabitants were in a state of terror. They searched Andrew Moynihan's house very minutely, and arrested him about (-) o'clock p.m. They took him in the lorry with them, and set fire to his hay barn before they left. On Xmas eve they got news that he was killed on the road to Tralee. It was

water flowing near Headford to which people come every May-day. They wash their face and feet in the water and are sometimes cured of ailments. This stream was remarkable for cures in olden times. People tell of a man who had charms and cattle and horses were cured by him. This is the way he worked the charm. He at first made the sign of the cross. Then he said words which could not be understood. He then spat on the animal and it was cured in most cases.

The night before the Christmas fair eighteen ninety seven was very wet and stormy. The people of this district often talk about it. A piece of bog known in the locality as Bogach na mine started to move. It started near the "Quarry Lodge" in the Parish of Gneevwguilla. It moved down towards Headford, on to the Flesk, and in to the Killarney lakes. It swept away a family by the name of Donnelly and all their possessions in its course. One of the family who was visiting some relatives escaped the awful tragedy. The people of the vicinity subscribed towards the building of a house in which the girl afterwards lived. The land over which the bog moved was much dammaged. People from far and near come to see the

The "Maidhm" a circular hollow in the farm of John Cronin Knockyshehane Headford Killarney is 200 yards in diameter and 30 deep. Within this hollow an old woman lived alone in a miserable hut. She had one cow - a very peculiar one as she never went to dairy and yet her owned had more butter than the townland together. She was believed to be a quiet harmless poor woman and badness was never dreamt of from her, The big quantity of butter continued with her summer and winter and finally

A long farewell to Headford hill its true I now must bid
And face Tralee's cold prison cell as my comrades often did
Whatever way they'll punish me its true I wont reneige
I'll lead the van like an Irishman to guard old Ireland's league.
Chorus
With a willing mind I am inclined as you may understand
To march and fight both day and night for the rights of Father-land
Till up once more we'll drink go leór to Headford's noble pride
Who is now a slave in a living grave young Healy true and tried.The crime for which they've banished and keep me bound here in
It was because Base Balfour's laws I boldly did condemn
His link eyed spies did me surmise oer many a hill and dale
My object being to unfold the green and free old Innisfail
Chrs. With a willing mind ect.For when I gaze through the penal days my breast

picking a twig was put in the Stocks in Headford (See opp page)Mass was said in the present old church in Donaghpatrick as late as 1777 A.D. Two priests Fr Bradican and Fr Lynch are buried inside the Church Walls. The present schools (1938) * constituted the Church building probably after the falling into the disuse of the one in Donaghpatrick. It was a thatched building long and low and when the present church was built ( ) the old church was converted into a school from the foundation.
Seven skulls were found and buried in the Donaghpatrick graveyard. The gateway was where the boys school gate is now. There was a big whitethorn bush near the gate and no one would cut it down till Canon Heaney who is buried in the present church gave the first cut with the saw. The door leading into the Church was where the hall is now and there were no seats except up near the altar which was near the eastern wall. These seats

The lands of all the landlords, were bought, either by the tenants or the Irish Land Commission after the time of the Land League, except the wood of the Staunton estate which is still in the possession of a descendant.
Writer: Patrick Egan. Clydagh, Headford.
He heard these stories from his father Thomas Egan, aged 60. who has lived in Clydagh all his life.

One day his agent evicted all the tenants and in in one village knocked all the houses. One of the evicted tenants became a tenant of the Brownes and that family are still living in Clara. To show the riches of himself and his tenants St George built three or four slated houses in Cuileen about a mile from Headford and made the tenants pay a high rent for them.The cruelty of some of the landlords will never be forgot. The Brownes often took away the tenants corn and potatoes, even if the rent was paid. On one occasion they took away a man's wheat and he had to work hard slashing it at fourpence a day. At one time the rent was raised on the tenants in order to buy a carriage for Mrs. Browne. In later years the carriage wheels were bought by a tenant for a few pounds and put on a donkey cart.The rent was paid to Lynch Staunton on November's day and May Day, and every tenant paid between twenty and thirty pounds every year.

Plasters made from certain herbs and the diseases they cure.All the old men in the town of Headford, Co. Galway were able to make a cure for fairy illness. They made it from an herb called Buachaill an tighe. It grows on the side of an old house. These old men used to pull it and boil it in an oven. They then used to mix it with a pint of new milk. The person who was ill had to take it in that way. This plaster-cure is sometimes used for the pox.

About five years ago everybody in the parish of Corrandulla used to spin thread and send it to a weaver in Ballybeg names Pat Tyrroll to be woven into cloth.
Some of them used to send it to the weaver to be made into rugs and blankets, and others who had black thread used to send it to him to be made into freize. The people whom he used to make the freize for used to sell it and they used to get up to fifty shillings for it.
Pat Tyreell is alive still but he does not weave now because he is too old. Ballybeg is a village about six miled from Headford.

The FeniansThere was once a Fenian and he lived outside Headford and there was a sentence of death passed on him when he would be caught. The soldiers caught him one day. When they caught him they brought him to St. George to see was he the right man. They have you at last said St. George and you will never come back. When they landed in Galway he thought of himself and said if you bring me back again I will show you where there is a lot of guns hid. When they came out side at St. George's gate he said "call him out till he sees me". When St. George came out he said "Now I'm out again and now I am ready to die". Then they killed him.Told by:- John Fahy age 75

They brought young chickens too. Long ago the men made nails and they were called nailors. He made them big and small. Then he brought them into the market square. The nails were made special for the country people.
The lace that old women wore on their bonnets was made around Headford. It was made special for old women's bonnets. It was brought into Dunmore and Tuam and sold at 4 pence a yard. It was made by women and they called it thread lace. The turf was brought into the market on a straddle. It was sold at 6 pence.

Cross on the Square who founded here the monastery of the Canons Regular of St. Augustine about 1140. He also founded the Abbey of Cong and brought the well-known Processional Cross of Cong to Tuam, where it was probably first used.
For some hundreds of years monasteries, Convents, and Churches continued to be built in many places around Tuam. Cathal Crovederg O'Conor, grandson of Turlough, brought the Cistercian monks from Boyle to found Abbey Knockmoy, and he also founded the rich Convent of Kilcreevanty. In the work of establishing Churches and monasteries the Irish chieftains were ably assisted by the Normans.
Most of these buildings are now shapeless ruins, but much remains of the Abbey in Knockmoy, six miles from Tuam. The original twelfth century East window, and the elaborate window of the Chapter room (of a later date) are still preserved and are well worth a visit. The Franciscan Convent of Ross Errily near Headford is complete, with the exception of the roof, and an inspection will give a good idea of the manner of life of the friars who lived and worked in the fifteenth century.

Eva of the NationIt appeared in the Daily Press that Eva of the Nation was born at Clydagh, near Headford, Co. Galway. Local tradition has it that she was born at Kelly's Mill, Ballyshruel, Portumna, Co. Galway.
She spent many years in this locality & her home was occupied by her sister up to the time of her death about 19-. The residence in the property of Michael Clarke at present.
Some of her nieces are buried in a local cillecán in Ballyshruel.

Moran na Scuab 3 . 5 . '38Moran was a man who lived in Shrule. He had two sons, Pat and Mike. He was a brush-maker and he used to go to Dalgan pulling heath with his sons. He had an uncle in Headford a goldsmith who used to visit him once a week. One Friday as Moran and his sons were pulling heath they found a beautiful feather under a tree. They brought it home and showed it to their uncle. When he saw it he said if they got the bird which lost the feather Moran would

coming from Castlebar by Belcarra and Hollymount. They had been all the time under military protection as far as Shrule. Arriving at Shrule on the 24th day of their journey Viscount Mayo and arranged to end the convoy on arriving and Shrule the ancient boundary between Mayo and Galway his brother-in-law Captain Ulick Burke of Castlehackett. Captain Burke (of) had made arrangements to meet them at Shrule, but had camped on the night previous at Killamonagh within a mile and a half of Shrule on the Galway border. When Dr. Maxwell and his followers had arrived in Shrule the escort of soldiers that accompanied them left them left again for Castlebar. They had no sooner taken their departure when the Protestants were set upon and massacred and were thrown into the River. Thirty of them were thrown into a hole at the Bridge. The number estimated killed was 100 and was witnessed by Pierce Lynch of Galway who had been living at the castle. The river had soon turned red with the blood of the Protestants killed. Fr. Bryan Kilkenny Guardian of Ross Abbey Headford hastened to the scene and brought the Protestant Bishop and all that escaped to Ross Abbey. It is also given down that 40

beggar woman and her name was Eelian. She was very lame, and she was always bent down. Mageen Tum na Coladh was another beggar woman, and she used to have a little boy with her always, and he had no name. She used to be cursing always. Long Ann and Big Biddy were two beggars from Tuam. they were both sisters and they were very strong. They used to drink allot. They had a brother also, and he used to be stealing money out of people's pockets, and it was called pocket picking. He would take money out of the people's pockets, and when they would go and look for the money, it would be all gone. Reannachie was another beggar man, who was going around also in this locality, and he was also called Blackmud, and he was a piper. His face was very black and he was wicked looking. There was a beggar going around this locality and his name was Johnny Staunton, and he used to say very funny things. Patent was a very wicked beggar, who used to be riding on an ass always, and he used to be talking to himself going along the road. There was a beggar living in Headford called Barret, and he used to be gathering rags always and he had a wife called Biddy. She used to