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  1. Travelling Folk

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    There are gypsies and tinkers too. There are tinkers who come to our district once a week. They always come to our house for milk and [?] Every day they come for the same thing. Their camp is at an old Barrack. Their names is Connor. They used to make cans and saucepans and go around selling them. These have no caravans like the rest of the tinkers, they put up in a tent. They have a little dray and a few asses with them.
    They are gypsies on the Clonmellon road but they are not poor. They don't beg as much as the others. They have an awful lot of ponies and caravans. They do not camp long at any place, they keep moving.

  2. The Local Roads

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    Killskere and Clonmellon. The Kildalkey road leads to Athboy and Mullingar. These roads were made hundreds of years ago. The oldests that are in this district are The Hill O Ward road. Mitchelstown road and the Oldcastle road.
    During the famine times there were short cuts made as relief such as from Bunn Boggan out to Martinstown and from Danescourt out to Otterstown. There are some cuts and backrouts in this district such as The backway, the churchlane, the Barrack lane and Barrens Avenue, you can go either to mass or school these ways.
    On the Rathcarn road there are heaps of stones where Saint Lawerence used to rest going to Rathmore. In Mr Alley's field there is a wooden cross where there was a man killed going to his works. There is a masspath through some of the fields on the Hill O Ward

  3. Ruins

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    Killna
    An ancient castle situated outside the town of Clonmellon, Wesmeath.
    Long ago there was only a big house in the place where the castle is situated. When the Chapmans came to live there each heir was supposed to build an addition to the house. This was done for many years and in place of the house now stands a castle. Those Chapmans were great friends of Lord Nelson & when all the landlords had to subscribe for erection of a pillar to him the Chapmans decided to build one themselves on the land. They also erected a pillar to Sir Walter Raligh.

  4. Local Happenings

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    About three years ago a little boy named Patrick McCullen was drowned in a pond over near Clonmellon about half a mile from Kilskyre in a place called Miltown. It was in the winter time of the year and the pond was coated with ice. This evening when the boy and his brother and companions were coming home from school they went in to slide on this ice. They were sliding on the ice for a while and at last it broke and one of the boys went down through it and the other brother ran in to save him but the boy that ran in was drowned.
    The boy that was with them ran for a man named Michael Tighe and he just was in time to save one of them. The pond is dry now. The man got a very good reward and also the boy who went for him.
    The first thing the boy said was, "Is Patrick safe". He was buried in Oldcastle with a very large funeral.

  5. Weather-Lore

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    43. It is an old saying and a true one in the locality that when you hear Carnaross bell (which lies to the north) it is a sure sign of good weather and when you hear Clonmellon (which lies to the south) we are sure to have rain.
    44. The north wind brings frost and snow. Black wind from the east is bad for man and beast. The sheep turn black with the east wind as it brings the smoke over from England. The south wind brings the most rain.
    45. When the swallows fly low is the sign of rain.

  6. The Treasure of Connell's Fort

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    him so he hid it in the fort.
    Collected by James Smyth. Loughanbrean, Clonmillon
    Told by James Smyth Senior, Loughanbrean, Clonmellon, Co. Meath

  7. Hedge-Schools

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    Hedge Schools
    There was a school long ago where the forge is now, and the master used to live where Sheridans are now. The Masters name was Cumiskty. He was paid by the children bringing a penny every Monday or a basket of eggs or a sod of turf. He was a native of here. There was Geography taught and poems. They only had one book and they used write on slates.
    Collected by Mavis Renehan, Boherard, Clonmellon, Co. Meath.
    Told by Michael Cahill.

  8. Hedge-School

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    There was a hedge school at Ballafore. School was held in an old shed in which an ass was stabled at night. The first children to arrive in the morning had to clean the school. School was taught by a man named Billy Garry. The children brought a sod of turf or a bundle of brosno for the fire. There was also a charge of a penny a week for those who could afford it. James Connell of Herbertstown (aged 87) attended the school. When he afterwards went to Gehanstown National School the inspector once told him that he was well taught and that his teacher was a scholar. The master Billy Garry took all the questions from his head. Questions such as "If I came from Drogheda which is 25 miles in a coach the circumferences of whose wheels are so much how many revolutions does each wheel make". He used one reader called the "Universal", and whoever passed the book was well fitted for the world. There were a few maps and one blackboard in the school. Irish was not taught but the old people all spoke Irish.
    Told by James Connell Herbertstown Clonmellon

  9. The Leipreahaun

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    The man asked him to have a game of cards. The man went in and started to play. It happened that the Ace of Diamond's fell to the floor. The man stoped down to pick it up when he saw the shoes the other man had on him. He stood up and said "I better be going" and he said he would never go that way again. Onxe a piper went into the case in Killall (?). He told the people he would play music for they to listen. Suddenly the music stoped and the piper was taken of by fairies. Conn Sheridan from Lough Bawn was taken away and another man put in his place.
    Collected by Nora Smyth, Donagorann
    Told by Michael Briody Loughinderg Clonmellon Co. Meath

  10. Games - Hopscotch

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    Hop Scotch
    Nine squares are made then a small piece of a flat stone or slate you peg the stone into the square without peging it on the line then you hop to the stone and pick it up without walking on the line you should keep at that until you are at the end of the square then you should throw the stone across your shoulder into a square and that square would be called a bed and a mark should be put in it the way you know it and the next time you can stand in the bed again. The game is over whoever has the most beds will win.
    Written by Mavis Renehan, Killallon, Clonmellon, Co. Meath

  11. Strong Men

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    John Reilly from Cloneveran was a very strong man. He and another man was betting with other to see which of them would throw the anvile of of the forge. John Reilly lifted the anvil off the block and threw it out of the forge with one hand.
    Patrick Mc Cabe Shranbole used to walk to the fair of Athlone, of Galway. Jack Molloy in Clonmellon used to mow an acer of hay in the day.
    Peter Friary was a very strong man. He caught two police men in Kells one in each hand and lifted them off the ground and threw them on the street.

  12. (gan teideal)

    “Gat King Loughinderg Clonmellon and Kit Fox Killallon were noted for weight trowing and wrestling.”

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    The name of his favourite song was "Good night and may joy be with ye all" William Keegan was a story teller his stories were about haunted houses, goasts, and fairies. There was once a meet at Archerstown and there was a lot of high horses at it. There was a bet that Hugh Doyle would not jump the highest horse so the highest horse was picked and Hugh Doyle jumped her.
    There was once a butcher in Clonmellon and he challanged Doyle that he was not as good a jumper as he was. All night said Doyle let us try it so they went to a bog and measured a hole twenty one feet long the both of them were able to jump it. So Doyle got a turf barrow and put the wheel into the water and had the two handels standing up so they had to jump through

  13. Killallon Churches

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    At the northern end of the parish of Killallon where the townlands of Galmoystown and Herberstown meet, the Irish soldiers ambushed Cromwells troops on their way from Oldcastle, and the soldiers who fell
    The second church was built in the present graveyard of Killallon and the remains are in a fairly good state of preservation. At funerals people still practiced that grand old custom of laying down the coffin and saying a few prayers on the side of the old church. This church was attacked by Cromwell's soldiers from an eminence near Clonmellon. One of the Cannon balls which hit the church is built into the church wall at the entrance gate to the churchyard. It was found some years in Thomas Bennet's old house. The third church was built at the back of the present church convenient to where the stables now stand. Portion of the old wall still remains. The present church was erected in 1837. Killallon is the name of the Parish

  14. (gan teideal)

    “St Patrick was on his way to Clonarney in Delvin parish.”

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    refused help in many places. When he reached Delvin he got food and shelter and he blessed the place and said sickness would never top the hill ( in the village ). There has never been any bad outbreak of disease in the place.

    In Moyleroe district in Delvin, there is a river called the Ruaile More which divides the parishes of Delvin and Clonmellon. At a certain part of this river there is a stick and beside the stick is miraculous water which cures a disease called the Rose. It is said that a certain saint whose name is forgotten cured a leper at that spot long ago.
    When a person wants to rise the water to cure a person with the disease, he or she is supposed to bring three little stones. When he is lifting it he must throw in one stone into the river and make the sign of the cross and put a little drop of the water in the bottle. Then he must throw in the other stone

  15. Stair na hÁite

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    ( ó Mrs Gavagan, meadon-aosta, a bfuil suim aice 'na léitheidh)
    Sna sean-laethe sul a dtainig na Chapmans, bhí seipéal an Paroisde ag Baile an Locha (Ballinlough, Clonmellon) áit a bfuil na ballógaí le feiceáil go fóill. Fá'n am sin bhí líon mór daoine in-a gcomhnuidhe i mBaile an Locha agus ag Kilrush. Tá sean-chaisleán ag Ballinlough ar ghabh Cromwell seilbh air. Ba d'arm Chromeul an chéad Chapman agus tugadh Killua dó in-eiric a chuid seirbhíse san arm. Chuaidh Robert Chapman go dtí an Astral agus cheannuigh talamh annsin. Thainig sé arais agus is iomha lán-luinge de mhuinntir Bhaile an Locha agus de mhuinntir Kilrush a chuir sé go hAstral. Thoiligh an dubh-sgaifte daoine a ghabháil leis, nó bhí cruadhtán an tsaoghail

  16. Stories of Locality - Drewstown

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    (2 mls E. from Clonmellon)
    Drewstown is the family seat of the McVeigh family (or McVeagh). It got its name from the druids. There is a field in Drewstown where the Druids' beds are, which are large rocks of curious shapes. They are quite visible. It would be worth anyone's while to see them that has not seen them before.
    There is an old story told about the Druids:* that they used to steal these rocks. It is supposed that one of the Druids was carrying one of these rocks from Drewstown to Kilskyre. He was overtaken by the other Druids, so he dropped the rock in the Townland of Johnsbrook where it remains to the present day.*

  17. Stories of Locality - Hartstown

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    (1/2 ml. from Clonmellon towards Killskyre)
    There was a house in Hartstown. When the people shut the widow at night, when they would get up in the morning, the window would be in the yard. The people in the house saw the ghost. The woman of the house was unconscious for hours one night.

    ST PATRICK'S STONE (Cnoc na Ríogh)
    There is a field this side of Jack Farrelly's where there is a big stone with the traces of St Patrick's two knees and his staff.

  18. Stories of Locality - Bog Finds

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    A few days before Mrs Bell died (at Killua) she went out into the yard. She saw her coffin with three candles on each side of it. The same day she heard angels singing, so she died in a few days afterwards. (do)

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    There were two men living in Slate Row, Clonmellon about eighty years ago. They were very nervous. One night a knock came to the door, but he could see no one. That night they put boards up against the door and window and they went to bed. When they got up in the morning everything was in the middle of floor. The house was destroyed afterwards (do)

  19. An Old Church

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    There stands the ruins of an old Church on the roadside (right side) of the road leading from Ballinlough to Athboy. It was the principal Chapel in olden days. It stands in the corner of Mr. Garry's Field. Further up in the fields there are the ruins of an old Castle. It is known as Devorstown Castle. No one has lived in it for years. Both are visible from the road.
    (Mrs Leavy, Kilrush)
    This was Ballinlough Chapel. About 200 years ago there was no R.C. Church in Clonmellon and the nearest Church was Ballinlough. (Mrs Bennett, Kilrush). The chalice which was used in this Chapel is kept by Lord Trimbleston. There is a cross on the wall near the road. The Trimblestons lived near Trim and at one time his sister, Lady Kathleen, owned the chalice. Her family owned the Chapel.

  20. Cures

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    WARTS (1)
    Find a black snail without searching for it and apply to wart.
    (Mrs Evans Clonmellon)