This is not an ancient well. Long ago there were no public pumps in Clonmellon. The landlord, Sir (-) Chapman sank the well and raised the building round it for the beauty (?) of the lodge. An old man was living in a little house beside the well. The ruins of the house are to be seen still. His name was Isaac and the well is known as "Isaac's Well" ever since. The house was a forge. An iron cup was fastened to a hook in the upper one of two stones

There is a lake in Cloran visible from "Hill Bo" * which is full of fish but none of them can be caught in daylight. The story goes that the fish were so abundant that people used spend Sunday fishing and often missed Mass. A priest in Clonmellon is supposed to have commented on the serious matter of losing Mass and the story goes that three men would be drowned if they continued the practice of losing Mass. Two men have already been drowned. You would not get a man to fish in that lake since. There are night lines set by which fish are caught but none are caught by day. (Old Nanny Plunkett, grandmother of the present Plunketts, said she saw forty horsemen leave the lake and go up on the hill on a moonlight night, go through some manoeuvres and return to the Lake)

There is a tunnel in Killua going from the Pheasant House to the Castle. It was an underground walk for Chapman.
(Mrs Evans, Clonmellon)

labour given in the Famine times. This road is called the "Split Hills".Another road which has by all appearances been so treated as the road from Clonmellon to Kells via Killua. There is no record of the wages the labourers were paid.

Slings are made for stone throwing. Get two pieces of twine and a piece of leather. Attach both twines to the leather and the sling is made(Mícheál Ó Cléirigh from Jim Clarke Clonmellon Co na Midle)

There are a few holy wells in this district. A well I called ''The Warty Well'' is on the roadside between Clonmellon and Killallon. It is called the ''Warty Well'' because it cures warts.Three Our Fathers and Three Hail Marys have to be said each night and each morning for three

13) How many like the fox despise those heights to which he can not rise.(Peadar Ó Muireadhaigh from James Reilly, Clonmellon)

luck on the cow. When the people go out to feed the hens they say "Tuk Tuk" When they are calling the chickens they say "Chick Chick" Marks are put on "Good Fridays" eggs because they cure a pain in the head
(Peadar Ó Muireadair from Mrs Henry Clonmellon)

is a horseshoe entrance to McDermotts forge. There is one fire place in all the forges. He shoes horses and asses only. The smith repairs farm implements. He shoes cart-wheels in the open air.(Seumus MacMahon from Mícheál Mac Mahon Clonmellon)

night. Children used to eat apples and nuts on hallow-eve, and a lot of eggs at Easter. Teas was first used about a hundred years ago. Wooden noggins were used before cups became common.
(Seamas McMahon from Mr Mc Mahon Clonmellon)

There are many fairy forts around Clonmellon but there is not much known about them. There are two fairy forts one in Fionan's field browenstown and also one in Heaths-town. They are large and circular mounds. Large mounds of earth surround these. Forts on which whitethorn and hazel bushes grow. There is a large entrance hole to the fort in Fionan's field in which a large flat stone is placed. No one ever explored the fort. Theses forts were supposed to be

well is known to have cured sore eyes.In Killallon Co. Meath there was a well and when one of the Connaught men was going to Co Meath to cut the harvest, he washed his socks in it, and it moved in across the fields.It is said, this well has the cure of the head ache.
Margaret Dunne
Newtown
Clonmellon
Told byJohn McCormack
Galboystown
Clonmellon

Dick O'Brien from Clonmellon used to go around buying feathers. he used to travel miles and miles plucking geese and buying young hides. He would pluck the geese alive. He was called "Dick the Plucker."
These rag men used to go around this district long ago. They were from Kells and their names were Clifford Sheerins and Tom Limerick. Sometimes they would give delph or pins in exchange for old rags and they would usually give twopence or three-pence for a stone of rags.

GUBBAUNS for calves were made from thin green sallies worked in and out.The people around this district that were most famous for basket making were the Lenehans from Clonmellon and Nichalas Clinton from Newtown and John Castles from Rosmead the only one living now..

is hard to be killed. The eels when you catch them and cut and clean them and some times when they would be on the pan they would not be dead altogether. The people get fowl easy they have guns to shoot them some birds you could not eat is the blackbird or the crow and other birds, you could eat, the pigeon, and the snipe, and other birds. John Gillick in the bog makes wheels, and gates and he builds houses. Lynch's in Clonmellon used to make churns and barrel's and Lynch's from Ankerland are coopers and they mend churns and barrows.

There is a holy well at a place named Kiaram. Each year the people go to worship there and they have stalls and other things there. They have these prayers in the day time and at midnight some of the people gather together again at the well, to see the trout, which is supposed to rise at twelve o'clock.
There is also a well near Clonmellon which cures warts.
It is called a "Wartie Well" and is very small with a little drop of water in it. There is a bush beside the well and when a person wants a wart cured they rub the water on the wart and then tie a rag on the bush. When the rag rots, the warts go away.

In a place called Newtown a mile from Clonmellon there lives a woman whose name is Miss B. Tully. she is a very old woman about 70 years of age always doing queer things.
This old lady has a beautiful garden full of fruit. Every year a lot of people go over for apples and currants and plums.
One day two boys were getting apples and in the yard there was a man named Mr. M. Leavy taking a large cock of hay out of the yard. He found 10 pound notes in it and he kept them and never told the old lady. This happened about sixteen years ago.

There is a hidden treasure in the centre of Grannie's field at Killallon. Clonmellon, Co. Meath.
It is under a loan tree which is in the middle of a pond. The treasure is a pot of silver.
Nobody has tried to get the silver because before you get to the tree you would be drowned.
The silver cannot be got with out the tree being cut. If it is cut something will happen to the cutter.

There is a hidden treasure in Killallon Clonmellon, Co. Meath. It consists of two crocks of Gold and there is a black cat minding it. She has a white spot on her forehead. She is tied with a golden chain to the roots of a tree.
Any one who wants to try to get this treasure must roast an ox and give it to the cat. While the cat is eating it you must steal in behind her back and dig for it. If the cat catches you, you must hit her on the white spot and kill her.
Two men tried to get it but they did not succeed. Their names were Mr Mac Clotery and James Reilly. They roasted two calves and gave them to the cat and began to dig for it. They were digging for about half an hour when the cat saw them and leaped at them and broke Mr Reilly's arm and they ran for their lives.