One night a man was coming up Captain Hardy's lane he saw a ball of fire passing by him. The man fainted on the spot when he recovered himself it was morning. He arose and went straight to the Parish Priest of Hacketstown and he told the priest what had happened. The folling night the priest and himself gathered up a crowd of people. So they set off to find that buzzing ball of fire. They hid up Captain Hardy's lane. At about twelve o'clock midnight they heard the buzzing ball of fire coming. The ball of fire came and turned into a white man at the gate. The man stayed then till most of the had fainted except the priest and the man himself. The two of them stepped forth bravely and they priest began to read out of his book and the man went away screaming and roaring.

No 17 from:-
1) Spencer Drought
2) Ballybrack, Hacketstown, Co Carlow
3. 90 years old
4. Farmer
5. Native of Ballybrack, Hacketstown but spent years of his life in America
6. Spencer Drought his father
7. About 70 years ago
10. Written in this book 21.7.34

Historic
No 18: Evictions carried out
Received following from
(1) Robert Mitchell
(2) Tombeagh Hacketstown
(3) 76 years
(4) Farmer
(5) Tombeagh
(6) May 28th 1935
The great evictions of the town land of Coolmanagh took place over fifty years ago. There were nine or ten families evicted and put out of their farms. The Land League supplied them with huts to live in and the neighbouring farmers gave them food. There was many disturbances, and it was feared that there would be acts of retaliation so there were 150 policemen drafted to Hacketstown and billeted there and also fifty two Hussars in order to preserve peace during the time of evictions. After a couple of years those who were evicted got back to their places

Maggie Hannan,
Croneskeagh,
Hacketstown.Material obtained from: -
Mr. [?} U Hannan,
Croneskeagh,
Hacketstown,
Co. Carlow.
,

There is one disused graveyard in this locality. It is in the downland of Haroldstown. People remember burials taking place there.
Some local people have certain graveyards to be buried in.They often go miles to be buried with their relations. There are no crosses made of wood or iron in the Hacketstown graveyard. There are a great many trees growing in each graveyard. .

A favourite meal for an old man named Dan Brien about 80 years of age when I was about seven years was oat meal porridge made on buttermilk & eaten with a print of butter on top of it followed by a noggin of milk - This was a wooden drinking vessel something like a mug. Wooden platters were then used & scoured white as snow - Pewter plates were also common. There is one house owned by Miss Kate Dowling of Ballyboff, Tullow, Co. Carlow who has a number of them still on her dresser. Above old man often told stories of the battle of Hacketstown. He stated that the yeoman called to his house when he was a child of six. His mother had cakes made which they took, also firkins of butter Any they did not take they put on fire to melt it & it ran about the floor in streams. From memory. B. O'Grady.

There is a rath situated between Hacketstown and Kiltegan, near a place called Ballybrack, and fairies were in it. One day, a man with a hump on his back was passing by the rath, he heard the fairies singing a song. He stopped to listen and he heard them singing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. He began to sing the same song, when he heard a voice saying "Who is that helping us with our song?" Another said "A poor old man with a hump on his back". Another said "Go out there and take that hump off his back and let him go home. When the man went home he had no hump on his back.

horse ran away. Harmon fell off, and was killed. His spirit remained on the Bridge, and when night fell, no on could cross it. Even a man with a horse and car, when he would come to the bridge, the horse would not cross it.This went on for a few nights so a priest was sent for. The priest out of Hacketstown came and "laid" the spirit. From that day to this, his spirit was never seen on the Bridge.

When my Grandfasther was going to school in Hacketstown, he had to be in school at half-past nine. At that time they had no stools to sit on, they had to sit on their coats on the floor.
The school-master's name was Murphy. My grandfather said he was a very cross master. When they went into school they learned Bible History for a half-hour. When the teacher heard the children their Bible they went to English reading. They learned

Heard from Mrs Reilly Rathshannone, Hacketstown aged 79One time there was two friends who lived together and one of them died. After some time he appeared and told the one that was alive that he was in purgatory and he told him to tell somebody to pay some little thing that he owed and he would go to rest. The other man said that no one would believe him so he caught him by the arm and left the marks of his burnt fingers in his wrist and said "now they will believe you.

One day as a man was going to Hacketstown, he saw a woman as he was going up into Hacketstow at the millspout as it is called. She was pushing the froth off of the water with her hands and said as she did so, milk milk come to me all the mill come to me, and half of it to me said the man. When he went home his cow was at the gate waiting to get milked. He went in and ate his dinner. Then he went out out to milk the cow. He filled buckets and everything about the house that would be able to hold milk, and the cow had as much milk as would fill as much more things.

Heard from John Roche famrer aged 60 from and reared at Eaglehilll Hacketstown who heard it T. Donohoe who died in 1929 aged 78.
I Tailor & the Fiddle.

No. 54 and 64 got from
(1) Robert Harris
(2) Starlusky,
Hacketstown,
Co. Carlow(3) Age 65
(4) Farmer
(5) Native of this place and spent his life here
(6) Thomas Harris
(7) Twenty years ago
(8) 57 Years
(9) Tombeagh, Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
(10) Writting in this book 7th July 1934

and Tullow. The woman was in an ass and car. It came into collision with a motor car and she was knocked out and killed.
A boy named Denis Murray was killed by a motor van. There is a cross erected to him.Sarah Jane Tutty
Milly Street
Hacketstown
Co CarlowMaterial Obtained from
Mrs R Tutty
Mill Street
Hacketstown
Co CarlowDate 24th of June 1938

There are many signs of the wind by which we know what kind of weather is coming. The North wind brings very cold weather and frost and snow and the South wind brings showers and the East wind would skin man or beast and the West wind brings showery sleety weather.
When the wind blows from the Colliery we may be expecting bad weather. There are two other ways in which it is very cold from Hacketstown direction and the Colliery direction
The dog is an animal that shows there is going to be rain sometimes he runs off out in the park and

The harbour is situated on the eastern side of Skerries and faces North east towards Balbriggan. The islands lying to the south form a breakwater to the harbour proper. The harbour is built on Red Island and nothing only the road connects the harbour with the mainland proper. At the back of the harbour there is a high barrier of rocks on which is situated the Tower or Pavilion. The harbour is the shape of the letter U. There is only one deep channel entering the harbour proper. This channel runs from the pier in an north easterly direction and ships, especially. those heavily laden have to be handled carefully so as to avoid the rocks. The skipper gives the island a wide birth until he brings the north-most house in the town in line with the wind mill on the hill of Skerries. This is done to keep clear of the cross . When the skipper brings those marks to bear he turns his ship and enters the harbour by the "road".In 1775 the Irish Parliament gave a grant of £2,000 for the construction of a pier in Skerries and also gave £1,500 for the same purpose in 1767. After some time the pier fell into decay, but was repaired by Hans Hamilton. In 1721, the Hamiltons purchased Skerries and the Manor of Hacketstown from the earl of Thomond. There was a tax put on every ship entering the harbour. Those coming from England had to pay 4d and those coming from foreign countries 3/4.

A Thatched Chapel Canon Wm. McNally was the first Parish Priest of Holmpatrick Parish and was appointed in 1730.
Hacketstown Chapel was abandoned about 1795 and a Thatched Chapel erected in Skerries town. It was a small building but it

There is a woman of the name of Mrs Colman living in Hacketstown and she makes baskets.
The baskets are made out of sallies which grow in every county in Eire.
The sallies are thin and one can bend them any way one likes. If they are not thin then (noone) no one can make baskets out of them because when anyone is making baskets they have to bend the sallies, the sallies have to be bent every way to make the baskets.

roads was watched and blocked for Wexford fighting had began there, so they said they would join the Dwyer. The next morning they started for Dwyer's camp in Imall with whatever kind of weapons came handy, some of them had none. Among them was two brothers by the name of Nowlans. They lived near Gould in the house that Mick Connolly had before he left Gould. They were all going up to Deacons hill, I don't think there was much of them when they met a woman coming down the hill. ' Oh young fellows' says she 'where are yous going. Go home, yous will be shot Hacketstown is full of yeomen' The two Nowlan's failed and said they would go back and when they got above the chapel they disarmed a body of yeos coming across the hill from Seskin over Jimmy Byrnes. They came on to Prices style -the two Nowlans- the one at Mrs Breslins. The two stood up upon it for to get a good view, for now the cavalry was coming along the road and they could see their helmets. They came down Gould hill for to join the footmen who went around Kilquiggan and Seskin. A yeoman with a crack shot rested the gun on the ditch coming over the lane, fired a bullet, struck one of the Nowlans who fell. The other brother ran down the road, got in under the little bridge at the chapel. The footmen was watching him