One time there was a man by the name of Tom Buddoch working in Bannow House. He was a jockey and he died.
His rooms were locked. When the people used to go out in the mornings the stable door used be opened and the sweat used be running off the horse the dead man used to ride. After a little while the horse died.The people said that he rode the horse to death. When the horse died he never came back anymore.

When the Lees got Rosegarland near Wellington Bridge, they evicted the tenants all around and knocked down their houses and knocked down ditches to make big fields.
They got the nickname "Leveller Lee."
Some of the poor tenants came down Bannow way and when they used be trying to get back they would have to cross the river somewhere beyond Coolbruck. There was no bridge at the time
Lee kept men there with whips to flog them back and from the orders he gave these men he was nicknamed "Whip the Beggar Lee"

Kilcavan castle is situated about three or four miles from here.
It was a It was by a Fitzhenry one of four brothers who fought at the battle of Lambstown, it was built. However Kilcaven castle was built in the year 1548.
The walls are standing yet and a very comfortable dwelling house is alongside it. The present owner of this place is a Mr Murphy. It is in the townland of Kilcavan, in the parish of Bannow and in the Barony of Bargy which is in the County of Wexford.The Cromwellian troops had a detachment in Kilcavan and

There are nine graveyards in this parish nemely - Kilcavan, St Emogues, Carrig, Bannow, Balloughton, Grantstown, Ballinglee and two in Ballymitty. They are all still in use but no one is buried in Grantstown but the Augustian friars.
Kilcavan, St Emogues and Ballinglee are almost round.
Ballinglee is more oval shaped and it is small and there is not many buried there but the Corish family of Ballinglee.
It slopes to the north-west. Both graveyards in Ballymitty slope to the north east and Kilcavan slopes to the south. St Emogues

The name of the district I live in is Tullicanna and the townland in which I live is Maxboley. It is situated in the parish of Bannow which is in the Barony of Bargy.
There are only two houses in the townland of Maxboley and the number of people living here is eleven. One of the houses is a labourers cottage and the other is a farmhouse. Both of them are slated. Houses were more plentiful formerely than they are now.
The ruins of some of those houses are still to be seen. The families that lived here were Cooneys, Daltons,

Bannow Bay is situated in the South of County Wexford and it is called the "buried city". The reason for this is because years ago it was supposed to be a beautiful city, and one night a great storm arose - a tidal wave it is believed - and buried the city with water and sand.The historic old church is all that's left and it appears to be on such low-lying land that you could not see it until you be within a few hundred yards of it.Although it is many hundreds of years old and (?) to storms its walls are in a fair state of preservation.Local tradition 1.7.38

There are four graveyards in the parish namely - Rathangan Duncormack, Kill Cowan, and Killag
They are all still in use Killag is situated on a small hill, and the ruins of an old church is there to be seen to this day. Rathangan is more oval shape, it is a small graveyard and it is fit to be closed at any time.
It slopes to the north-west. Both graveyards Kill-Cowan and Duncormack slope to the north-east. The tombs in Bannow, Ballinglee, Kilcavan and in the old graveyard in Ballymitty are very old. Near the graveyard of Kill Cowan there is an old rath and it is said that if any person passed by it at midnight they would see a gost. The people always visit the graveyards of their relatives every year.

About twenty-four years ago a ship was wrecked on the Keireights a small island in Bannow Bay. One of the crew was lost of exposure on the island before the storm abated.
The Fethard lifeboat went to the rescue and she broke in two. The crew was lost all but one that got to the island also. The life boat came under full sail, it was the opinion of all the sea men that they cast anchor under full sail and she broke in two.
A monument was erected in the street of Fethard as a memorial to the life boat crew with all their names on it.

below they fired. The bullet struck his head but he scarce felt the pain so numbed was his brain. He staggered on about another yard to fall down as the result of a second bullet. His bright red blood flowed freely from the fatal wounds to leave its stain forever on the stones of the half dried river bed. In Bannow in the south of the County Wexford there is a big ball alley and its unkept appearance rouses the curiosity of all visitors. They are told that several years ago a crowd of young men insisted on erecting that ball alley on consecrated ground in spite of the Parish Priest who warned them that they would have no luck. His dire prophecy was fulfilled when one after another the young men met with violent deaths, some in the ball alley itself and others on the road nearby. The result is that the ball-alley is now deserted and the inhabitants avoid passing it after dark.

People from my locality, Coolcliffe say that a man named Joseph Quigley of Bannow was killed near my house - Barrons, Coolcliffe - when running from the battle of Ross.
When he was coming through Goff's Bridge he got tired and sat down. A woman living nearby, knowing he was a coward ran out with a pike and killed him.At the time of the battle in Horetown the soldiers camped in the grove in Coolcliffe.

There are five cobblers in this district, Philip Lawlor Sheastown, William Fardy Wellington Bridge, James Byrne Carrig-on-Bannow, Michael Waters Ballymitty and Patrick Galavan Kilcaven. In this district the children go barefooted in Summer but not in Winter. William Fardy Wellington Bridge makes clogs. Philip Lawlor Sheastown got the name of "Philip Kleg" because he puts studs called "klegs" in the boots he mended and made.
a couple of years ago there lived in Sheastown a cobbler named Jack Rourke who used to make clogs and rubber boots.
In the days gone by it was a very rare sight to see any children, except the children of well to do parents wearing boots. Children used to go in their bare feet to Mass and to school in their bare feet and later when they went out to work, they often worked for years before they got a pair of boots. Some of there parents might be on a fair and buy them a pair from what

There was a heavy storm about twentyfour years ago. There was a ship wrecked in Bannow Bay on the Keeragh Rocks just out from the strand in Cullenstown. Nine members of the Fethard life-boat crew lost their lives going to the rescue.
The storm lasted for three days and the survivors of the "Mexico" the wrecked ship had to remain on the rocks for three days as no other lifeboat could reach them. During that time one of the crew of the ill-fated vessel died. Some of the bodies were washed ashore at Cullenstown and taken by road to Fethard where a memorial has been erected.

Fairs are usually held in the following places, first Carrig-on Bannow in Ballycullane, Ballyhack, Nash, Rath Gorey.
All those fairs were held usually in country places called villages. Buyers generally used to go and buy at the farmers places and more times used to meet them at the cross roads when going to the fair.
There are no fairs held in - these local places now. They are held now in Wellington Bridge instead of Carrig, Ballycullane instead of Ballyhack and also in Taghmon in place of Nash. The Wellington Bridge fair is held in a field adjoining the cemetery and station. The fair is

Fitzstephens and landed in Bannow in 1169. The property of this family, in both North and South Wexford, was very considerable, and in the southern portion the castles of Ballytramont, Johnstown and Rathlanan with the adjoining lands, were their strongholds. In the reign of James (II) I a peerage and a grant of the manor of Limbrick was conferred on Lawrence Esmond for his services in Holland and Ireland. He shared with Sir William Parsons in plundering the O'Byrne's of Wicklow of part of their territory. The latter, we remember in Irish history, were unjustly deprived of their ancestral possessions for alleged defeet of their titles during the successive reigns of the Stuarts.This Lawrence Esmond or Lord Esmond, apostatised, and taking advantage of the laws of the period abandoned his Catholic wife as well as his faith. In the civil wars of Charles (I) , he held Duncannon Fort for the King against the Confereate Army for three months when he capitualted. Leaving Duncannon, he set out for Dublin but was forced through illness, to break his journey at Johnstown Castle,

Macmine Castle.
This was once the residence of the FitzHenry's. This family owned several places in the county including, Bannow, Coolhull, Hilltown (Ballymitty), Kileaven, and the above, Macmine.
Present members of the family still reside in Templeudigan and another branch resided in Gobbinstown House, up to 1927. This branch had in their possession, what was called a "Christening Jug". and dated 1798. This jug was used to hold beer (I believe.) or other drink. (This jug is still intact.)

Townland - Verneglye
Farms - Mr White (Farmhouse)Names of Fields -Little Moor - slightly boggy
Well Field - formerly well in this field supplied water to surrounding residents.
Hungry Hill
Fairy Hill.
Bailey's Knock.
The Long field. (Long Meadow)
Judy's field
Townland - Bannow
Farm - Mrs C. DaveyNames of fieldsThe Little Field
The Hanging Green - this field which is beside the dwelling house is bellieved to have been the site of a gallows during the Insurrection of '98 - several hangings believed to have taken place there.
Townland - Bannow Moor
Farm - Mr T. NevilleNames of fieldsHurling Green.
Goose pool.
Chicken's Quarter
Lane field.
The Deer Park.
Townland - Brandane
Farm - Michael StaffordNames of fields
Gleebe field
Peekáns Eye

210.
The Loss of 'the Lismore.'
The S.S. 'Lismore' was torpedoed about twelve or fifteen miles S.E. of Hook.
There was one survivor, a man named Curley, from Wexford town. He held on to a raft, and drifted to and fro with the Eastern and Western tides for more than 36 hrs. Sometimes he drifted East towards the Bannow shore but on turn of tide would go South West again.
Eventually at nightime he came alongshore under Portersgate. He left his raft and swam ashore. After much difficulty he reached the clifftop.
He knocked at some houses but as it was the troubled times he was at first denied admittance. He was allowed in to Walshe's, Portersgate.

A man by the name of Edward Murphy from Ross was drowned in Clonmines. He picked cockles in Clonmines and sold them. One day he was picking the (cockles?) and he walked along and he fell into the hole of water and got drowned.Every day the people were looking for him. After nine days he was found in Barrystown. An inquest was held at a farmer's house in Bannow.Thomas Gleason, James Gleason, Thomas Morris, and William Stanton, were looking for him every day.This man was from Ross and he was living in this district. He was buried in the little church of Ross the day after the inquest.

Tintern traces its origin back to the eventful era of the Anglo-Norman invastion and was built at the foot of an eminence overlooking the particular point on the Wexford Coast where the first of the adventurous invaders effected a landing on Irish soil.The circumstances which led to the founding of Tintern possess a romantic interest all their own.On one occasion, William Marshall first earl of Pembroke - who was son-in-law of Strongbow and his wife Eva daugther of Dermot McMurrough of impious memory - returning to his Wexford estate found himself in imment peril at sea, and made a vow that if God enables him to bring his ship safely into port, he would found a monastery on the spot where he landed.After further tossing on the waves his barque found shelter at last at Bannow Bay whereupon he took measures to return his vow and founded an Abbey here which he dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and handed it over to a Community of Cistercian monks from Tintern Abbey in Wales. Thereafter the parent house was called Tintern Major, and the other Tintern