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  1. Tithe War - Story of the Escape of Billy Kane after the Encounter at Carrickshock 1831

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    (Events recorded were told by Mr. Patrick Heffernan. West End Cheekpoint.
    Age - 89 years.
    Occupation - Fisherman.
    Mr. Heffernan was born and reared in Cheekpoint and heard the story from his father Mr. William Heffernan who was a man of about 30 years of age at the time of the event.)
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    After the encounter at CarrickShock (1831) one of those who had fought against the police there escaped [the] to Cheekpoint. The fugitive was a Schoolmaster named Billy Kane. Kane had killed the Sergeant of Police and had disguised himself in the dead man's cap and coat.
    When he arrived in Cheekpoint he was befriended by a farmer named Jack Flynn who secreted him in a house (now known as Bowe's House) in the Glen below Faithlegg House.

  2. The Lost Child

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    Up to a few years ago the people in Cheekpoint used to bring the children to Crooke to be christened. Cheekpoint is about five miles from Crooke. One day Nurse Purcell went to Cheekpoint to bring a baby to Crooke Church to be christened.
    It was a very cold day so that the child had to be wrapped up in a number of heavy rugs. The godparents and the nurse went to the Church with the child on a sidecar. They got the child christened.
    When they were comming back the car was jolting because the road was very bad.
    When they reached home they discovered that the child was missing. They turned back to look for the child.
    On the Green Road they found the child lying on the grass. She was not killed because she fell on the grass. They brought the baby home safely at last.

  3. Old Crafts - Candle-Making

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    The old people of Cheekpoint who were accustomed to the making of candles say that they were just as good as (good) the candles nowadays.

  4. An Old Legend

    “At the time of the Deluge (2348 BC) God commanded Noah to build an Ark in which he, his wife and there sons lived while the whole earth flooded by rain.”

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    time of the Deluge and was drowned on the banks of the Suir in Cheekpoint when the floods swept the land.

  5. The Local Roads

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    The Local Roads.
    16. Written by:
    Various pupils.

    The Local Roads
    The Local Roads are known as the Main-road, the New-road, the Old-road, and the Wood-lane.
    The Main-road runs from Cheekpoint to Waterford. There are smaller roads running from the main road to different places.
    The New-road starts at the Rookery, Cheekpoint and meets the main road close to Faithlegg Chapel. The New-road is about a mile long.
    The Old-road starts at the 'Street', Cheekpoint and ends below Faithlegg school.
    The Wood-lane leads from Coolbunia over a hill called the Hurt-hill. It reaches the main-road near Passage east.
    The Shylaun starts on the beach under the Hurt-hill and ends on top of the Hurt-hill.
    The Rushing-side-road starts at the Light-house Cheekpoint and ends at the Hall.

  6. Local Roads

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    to the village of Passage East. It measures 31/2 miles and must have given work to at least 50 men for at least 2 years and as far as I know was the only work of its kind during the period this side of the county.
    There is a very old road not now in use that was once part of the main Waterford - Cheekpoint road. It is known as the Kennel road winding its way down through the Faithlegg Estate and along the bank of the River Suir into Cheekpoint. It was along this road that Strongbow came with his army to Waterford and on one part of the road where it crosses a large stream there was built a bridge a 1/2 mile from Halfway House and it is known to everybody around as Strongbow's Bridge.

  7. Occupations - Salmon Fishing

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    Written by: Martin Mahon, (Pupil)
    Cheekpoint,
    Co. Waterford.
    Salmon fishing.
    Salmon fishing is very common here in Cheekpoint. Most of the men are fishing salmon. My father is a fisherman and I hope to be one also. The men sometimes make their own nets but most of them buy them. The salmon season opens in February and ends on the fifteenth of August.
    The fishermen have to get a license to fish for salmon. Before the season opens they get (theire) their nets ready. The first thing they have to do is to oil the nets and put them out to dry. When the nets are dry they get some rope and rope them with twine. Before they rope the nets they put some corks on the rope (abut) about a fathom apart. When the nets are roped they put some leads on them and then they are ready for fishing.
    The fishermen fish in all weather and in the night sometimes. Every day during the season Mr. Power and Mr. Doherty go to

  8. Holy Wells - Saint Ita's Well

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    Written by: William Condon (Pupil)
    Cheekpoint,
    Co. Waterford
    Material from: Mr. Edward Power,
    Cheekpoint,
    Co. Waterford
    Age-47 yrs.
    Saint Ita is the patron Saint of Faithlegg, a town's-land in the Parish of Killea and Dunmore, in the Barony of Gaultir in County Waterford. She was sometimes called the Brigid of Munster. Her name at first was Deirdre but she took the name Ita to show the hunger which she had for the love of God. In a wood opposite Faithlegg chapel there is a holy well called Saint Ita's Well. It is about two hundred yards from the chapel.
    One day Saint Ita was praying in the wood along side the well when a child appeared to her. It was the Child Jesus. After a few moments He dissapeared, and when Saint Ita went to the place where the Child had been standing she discovered His foot-print in the rock. The mark

  9. Old Crafts - Candle-Making

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    Old Crafts 2
    Candle-making
    Written by
    Edward Duffin (Pupil)
    Cheekpoint
    Co. Waterford
    Material from
    Various people
    Candle-making was very common in the town-land of Cheekpoint about one hundred years ago. But now the craft died out except for a few of the very old people. It is said that nearly in every house the home-made candle was to be seen.
    A big log of wood is got first. Then it is put to dry near the fire for a couple of days. When all the sap is dried out it is bored with a hot iron. Then tallow is poured into the candle-holes, and wicks made of hemp with weights on their ends are dropped through the centre of each candle. For about twenty minutes the candles are left to set. When they are taken out all are fit for use.

  10. Herbs

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    Herbs (contd.)
    Written by: Lawrence Condon
    (Pupil) Cheekpoint.
    Material from: Mary Condon
    Age-54 yrs Cheekpoint
    The most harmful weeds growing on our farm are ferns and dock-roots. The reason they are harmful are because they spread rapidly over the ground and it is hard to plough them out.
    If Nettles are boiled and used three times in May they would keep your blood clear.
    Certain people can cure sore eyes by saying a prayer and pulling up a bit of robin-run-the -hedge at the same time.
    If dandeloin is boiled on milk and if a person with weak lungs drinks the boiled milk it would cure the weak lungs.
    If bush blossom is boiled on milk and a person with the yellow-janders drinks the milk they would be cured.
    The Yellow Iris is noted for curing tooth-aches, a bite of a snake and for curing coughs.

  11. Cheekpoint's Russian Side

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    The Russian - Side
    Long ago a russian ship foundered at Cheekpoint Lighthouse and nearly all the men were drowned. The few that were left made houses out of bushes, ferns, briars and everything they could get. After a time they all died and the place where they built their houses is still known as the Russian Side.

  12. Old Crafts - Candle-Making

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    Candle-Making
    Written by:
    James Doherty (Pupil)
    River-View-house,
    Cheekpoint,
    Co. Waterford.
    Material from:
    Mr Richard Power,
    Faithlegg,
    Co Waterford.
    Age - 29 years.
    About a hundred years ago candle-making was very common in some places and expecially in Cheekpoint and round Faithlegg. But now the craft has died out except amongst a few people.
    First a concrete block procured and five or six holes put into it, each about an inch or two in diameter and [I] about six inches in depth.
    Then fat of sheep is got and melted into these holes and plaited thread or hemp is put into the candles. Then they are left to get hard and are knocked out of the block. They are then ready for use.
    These candles when properly made are every bit as good as the candles we now buy.

  13. Famine Times

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    Written by: James Doherty
    River-View House,
    Cheekpoint.
    Material from: Mr. James Nugent
    No2. Cottage
    Cheekpoint
    Age-
    Famine Times
    It's many a story I have heard from the old men of the place about the Great Famine. An old man told me that the poor people used to go to the strand and gather the sea-weeds and other weeds to bring home to boil. Others got work repairing and making roads. Their pay was three-halfpence a day and some got a little bag of meal. More people went to their potato fields and dug out some of the black potatoes to eat them. If they did not eat some of the potatoes they would starve. All this happened in the "black forty seven" as the old man said.
    Many of the houses which went to ruin in the famine times were rebuilt and many people are living in them now.
    The blight on the potato-crop came just as it comes now but came very much heavier. Every potato dug up that year was black.
    In the following years a great sickness spread over the country. People died in geat numbers. The sickness was just as bad as the famine.

  14. Herbs

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    Written by: William Heffernan (Pupil)
    Cheekpoint
    Material from:
    Brigid Heffernan
    Cheekpoint
    Age - 38 yrs.
    Nettles, ferns, dock-roots, spunk, dande-lions,, robin-run-the-hedge, rushes, chicken - weed, march-march mallow, thisles, sally-grass, wild-parsnips.
    Nettles are used as a medicine for a rash, and also for weak lungs.
    Dandeloins when boiled on milk are used as a medicine for any (king) kind of sickness.
    Robin-run-the-hedge when boiled on milk or water is a medicine for pimples.
    March-mallow when boiled on milk is a good cure for a cough.
    Sally-grass when boiled on water is a medicine for boils.

  15. A Local Tragedy

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    A Tragedy
    There are many steam-boats plying up and down the river Suir, but fortunately accidents on them are very rare. One time a small ship foundered and all the crew were drowned.
    It was a very long time ago, when my grand-father was a boy, the ship was blown up the Suir during a storm. There was no pilot aboard the ship and the sailors were strangers to the course of the river. They came up close to Cheekpoint, but there the ship was kept too close to the shore and was cast upon the rocks at the point called the “Rock”, and where the river turns it’s southerly course. The ship foundered and all the crew were drowned. The crew consisted of black men. Some of them were buried on the strand, and the others up in the fields.

  16. A Ghost Story

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    The following story was told to me by my father who is over 50 years of age.
    In some years gone by three men from Cheekpoint went to the "Glazing Wood" for a thick stick. When they were coming home they left the stick down the ground until they would get a rest. They were there when a man came up and put his leg on the stick.
    They told him to get off it but he would not. They even lifted up one end of the stick to knock him off it but they could not. One of the men lit a match to see who was there but there was nothing to be seen.

  17. A Story

    “One day when the Mailboat was passing the Mount near the village of Cheekpoint.”

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    A Story
    This story happened many years ago.
    One day when the Mailboat was passing the Mount near the village of Cheekpoint. There was a girl passenger on her and the girl saw a funeral going up the road through the village of Checkpoint and she called the Captain and second mate and told them about it and she asked them did they see it and they said that didn't see it and she said she even saw the people after it, and a few minutes afterwards the girl died and it is said that it was her own funeral.

  18. An Old Legend

    “At the time of the Deluge (2348 BC) God commanded Noah to build an Ark in which he, his wife and there sons lived while the whole earth flooded by rain.”

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    At the time of the Deluge (2348 BC) God commanded Noah to build an Ark in which he, his wife and three sons lived while the whole earth flooded by rain. There is an old legend told about his daughter, who, it is said, refused to go into the Ark with her family and got a boat built for herself and sailed in it with some followers.
    She did not know where she was going as she only desired to get away from the floods. She sailed on and on and on until she reached "The Harbour of the Three Rivers" (Suir, Nore and Barrow) where she landed lived for some years in Cheekpoint and died. Her body is said to be buried on the slope of the Mynhawn.
    Some people say that this legend refers not to Noahs daughter but to Lady Casair who came to Ireland with fifty women and three men at the (the)

  19. Rhymes - The Wren-Boys' Rhyme

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    A couple of coppers will do you no harm,
    I know this woman is a very good woman,
    She'll give me a penny to bury the Wren.
    Written by: William Conlon (Pupil)
    Cheekpoint.

  20. Weather-Lore

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    sign which I often heard my father say meant bad weather and that is to see gulls, curlews and other sea-birds flying inland.

    People say when the sky is red in the West that the day after is going to be fine. Others say when the sky is 'scattered about' that strong wind is sure to follow. More say when the smoke out of houses go straight up into air it is a sign of fine weather. Also when swallow's are high in the sky it is a sign of fine weather. In Cheekpoint when the men see a rainbow in the night or day they say "A rainbow by night is the sailors delight and a rainbow by morning is the warning".
    When Southerly wind blows the men say "We are going to have a gale of Southerly wind and rain". [U] Wind from the South brings most rain to the district.
    When wild geese start screeching