bottom of a "mug" or "porringer" (the porringer is made of tin-shaped like a mug and is still used in this area) flour and salt were added and the mixture made into a stiff dough. It was then spread into flat cakes, half an inch of a quarter inch deep, cut into quarters and put on a floured pan to bake. When cooked, butter was put on the potato-cake and this constituted a delightful meal.Boxty, boiled and baked was also frequently made.

about its site. Tradition has it that St Brigid called on them for 'order.' She said "whatever field is white with daisies in the morning it is there the dead shall rest."
Ballinaglera is bounded on the west by Lake Allen - There is an island in the lake called 'Inch Island."
Inch Island was the burying place before Kill-vo-ey grave-yard (in use for upward of 150 years) began to be used-
Tradition gives the way in which the corpse was brought to the island. The coffin was based on a large flag and the flag, bearing the coffin, sailed direct to the island (Inch).
Five monks lived in the island. They used to dig the graves with wooden spades.
Tradition has it that it was a protestant man "Gotta" was the last person to be buried on the island. A white-thorn bush grew from his heart.

A bog only grows an inch every 100 yrs. He came on a "Kesh" under a bog hole

whole family. The men's dress consisted of a "swallow-tailed" coat, "knee" breaches grey woollen stockings, "tall" hat and brogue shoes The women wore "cloaks" and the girls "mantles" A good cloak cost about £5. Cloak making was a trade in itself. The last cloak-maker Miss May Hurley died only a few years ago. Every woman who could afford it wore a "Paisley" shawl as well as a white frilled cape in which they took great pride. It was shaped like a night cape with a "fill" about an inch and a half wide around the forehead. This was croned with a special iron about 8 inches high (see opposite page) The "heater" was put on top. Then the frill of the cape was pressed on the pointed end (about an inch at the time) and then the frill was completed it stood around the forehead as you see underneath

John Keppel owns the following fields:- Paddy's Meadow, The Kiln [?] Field, The Rushy Field, The Inch, The Buaile.

Cornelius Sheehan Knockduff Lr, Meelin, Co Cork owns:- The Inch, The Leaca, The Stubbles, The Cottage Field, The Step Field, The Sheep Field, The Gate Field, The Roggy.

The following is a story about Seán Rúadhs inch. Long ago a Landlord whose name was copley owned some of the land around my district and Menton was the Landlord of Barley-Hill. Copley used have cattle grazing on one side of the cliff and Menton lived on the other side. Menton had blood-hounds always as a rule. One morning Menton was up early and he saw two men stealing one of Copley's cattle on account of sheer hunger it is supposed. Menton let loose his hounds and they killed one of the men in this inch, ever since it is called Sean Rúadh's because the man that was killed [?] there his name was Seán Rúadh

Denis A. Hickey Mountcain. was a mighty man for running, jumping and swimming. He was once running with Batt Hickey of Mountcain. He was nearly beaten but he beat him by a couple of yards. He was able to jump a horse sixteen hands high. Denis was going down into Patrick Linehan inch. The fields on either side are as high as the ditches of the road and the road is about ten feet under the fields. He stood on one side of the road and jumped. He landed on the other but he had scarcely an inch to spare. His opponent jumped but he struck the fence and fell to the ground. The road was about twenty five feet in breadth. Denis was able to swim Poll Coffey under water. (A man named Coffey was drowned there.) This Poll is in the Blackwater and it is very deep and about thirty yards in

The poetry has come down through the ages and the people of Inch are very proud of it.

The small farmer had his "high-lows" for working days, but on Sundays or at fair or funerals he appeared in well polished shoes, strongly made with thick soles & without nails. These were called light shoes. These were worn generally with long grey worsted stockings and knee-breeches. His wife and daughters also wore similar shoes when appearing in public. The well-to-do farmers, their wives, and families wore "elastics" at all functions. These were the really select foot-wear, and they certainly looked very well on shapely feet. While the shoe-makers cut out the uppers of all the other boots and shoes he manufactured, he had to go to some town or city to purchase the uppers for these elastics if the person requiring them did not bring them to him when he sold his butter or oats in Tipperary, Limerick, or Cork. These uppers were either very high quality "calf" or "kid" leather with a two-inch band of thick, strong elastic stretching on each side from the top of the upper to with an inch or two of the sole. They were a little higher than ordinary

turnip. Chip the turnip flat at both ends, scoop out centre starting at the top and removing all the inside of the turnip to within an inch of the bottom and leaving a wall around about it about an inch thick. Two holes were then cut in one side of the turnip to represent the eyes one for the nose and an oblong slit for the mouth. The teeth were made by cutting small pieces of turnip and placing them vertically in the mouth. A piece of lighted candle was then placed inside the empty shell of the turnip and the light allowed to shine through the holes. The turnip when impaled on a stick and placed on a ditch on the roadside on a

In the district of Inch there is a grave-yard and a man named ned butler of Anfield

The leprechán is known locally as the "Fairy Cobbler". He is said to be a little man, about an inch in height

to bury their dead. People have plots bought in Colmcille churchyard, and the same on Inch Island.

In the parish of Colm Kille in a townsland called Inch there is the ruins of a church. There remained a bell in this ruins. This place belonged to the Late Lord Granard and he wanted to take the bell out of the ruins and have it erected in Castle Forbes. So he sent two men to take down the bell as soon as it was at the castle it went ringing back to Inch ruins that night again. He got it brought once more and it went in the air a second time. So he got it brought back once more and took the tongue out of it so that it could not ring any more. So the bell went back to the ruins once more and the Parish Priest got it erected in the new church in Colm Kille and it can be heard at the present day ringing and the people all say that it never had the same tone from that day to this. The tongue taken out of the bell disappeared the same night that the bell was taken away.

A man named Hassett owns a nice level field or "inch" near the Kilmaley River. The field has belonged to the Hassett family for generations and is known as "Hassett's inch". It is situated in the townland of Rathkerry.
At one time all the inter-parish hurling matches used be held in this field but about ninety years ago, a great

Sane. Rathdowney and the four others work in their own homes. The tailors in this locality stock cloth which is mostly serge and tweed. This cloth is not homespun. About thirty years ago there was a tailor named Lawrence Keyes who lived in Kyleamallawn in this school area he worked at his trade going from house to house when required, and usually spent three days making a suit of clothes. The only gear this tailor used was a large scissors which he carried in his breast pocket. He never used an inch tape but substitched a selvedge of the material for taking measurements. For the various lenggths he would cut a small v shaped hole in the side of the selvedge and could remember each length accurately. On many occasions he was able to dispense with these when making a suit for a person the second time, Needles, thread, scissors, inch tape, thimble and chalk are the

Catapult
Get a piece of a stick generally ash in the shape of a fork. Then get two pieces of rubber about ten inches long and half an inch wide. Attach them to the two upright sticks of the fork, with a cord. Then get a piece of soft leather and put two holes in it about an inch and a half away from one another and attach the rubber to it. Having this done the Catapult is completed

About 30 years ago people by the name of Farrels who lived where Mat Tipper lives to-day used to shoe wheels in the Ballyknocken Inch beside the Bogroad Bridge. Before they used shoe the wheels they used dig a round hole the size of the wheels, then they would light a big fire and heat the bands and when the bands would be hot enough they they would put them on the wheels then the wheels would be pushed into brook nearby and left there to cool. They used shoe the wheels in this Inch before they got the shoeing stone at the forge. My Grandmother often saw balls of fire dancing around the place where the wheels used to be shod. The round holes are still to be seen in the bog.

There are giants in this place long ago. There was a giant in Inch Island one time. He was very big and everyone was afraid of him. There was another giant living in this place. The one did not like the other. One day the Inch giant threw a big rock over to this side and it is still to be seen in a (fier) field of ours called "Creag Mór."
There was another giant in this place who had a bed up on Patrick Doherty's hill, up above Inniskill. He was a terrible big man and the people were all afraid of him. He lived away up in the hill