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  1. Old Graveyards

    CBÉS 0963

    Page 545

    There are two graveyards in the Parish of Kinawley. The name of them are Killaghaduff and Kinawley and the townlands are the same names. They are still in use. They are round graveyards. There is a chapel standing to this day in Kinawley grave-yard and is still in use. There is an old ruin of an old chapel standing in Killaghaduff graveyard to this day. There are many big trees growing in Killaghaduff graveyard and around it. There are many trees growing in Kinawley also. There are many old graves where people were buried long ago, and there are many children's graves also. When children die that are not baptised they are buried along the edges of the graveyards.
  2. Old Graveyards

    CBÉS 0966

    Page 154

    There is an old graveyard in Drumboory-along Drumboory land.
    It is hundreds of years out of use as the tombstones have sunken down in the ground and are overgrown with moss and grass.
    It is round in shape and raised a bit in the centre. It is known as '' crocán '' and slopes to the East North and South. There are a few old trees growing in the churchyard.
    There is another old graveyard in Killaghaduff in Kinawley Parish. Many people from the district are buried there. It was the burial place long before the present Parish Church and graveyard came into use.
    There is the ruins of an old monastery in Killaghaduff-one of the wells is still standing and it is said that the well will fall on some funeral some day
    Some say it will a funeral of an O Reilly
  3. Legendary Tales

    CBÉS 0968

    Page 344

    the spring filled the whole valley and formed the present lake.
    Taylor's Lough
    In the townland of Legavegra is a small lake called Taylor's Lough and this is how it got its name: Years ago there lived a bailiff in Aughnakelly who was a very severe man on the tenants of the surrounding estate. At last they met secretly and decided to kill him and they drew lots as to who should do the deed. One night as bailiff Taylor was coming over Slieve Russell from Ballyconnell in Cavan two men met him and choked him by stuffing mos down his throat. When he was dead they threw his body into the lough and ever since it has been called Taylor's Lough.
    Killaghaduff Church
    It is said that the Catholic Church of this district was formerly situated at Killaghaduff. An old man of two generations ago told the following story concerning it and said that he was present when the incidents related therein occurred. Some people in the parish made a false accusation against the priest and one Sunday when about to commence Mass
  4. Legendary Tales

    CBÉS 0968

    Page 229

    drunk, as the water gushed up too strongly.
    Eventually the spring filled the whole valley and formed the present lake.
    V
    Taylor's Lough :-
    In the townland of Legavegra is a small lake called Taylor's Lough and this is how it got its name :- Years ago there lived a bailiff in Aughnakelly who was a very severe man on the tenants of the surrounding estate. At last they met secretly and decided to kill him and they drew lots as to who should do the deed. One night as bailiff Taylor was coming over Sleive Russell from Ballyconnell or Cavan, two men met him and choked him by stuffing moss down his throat. When he was dead they threw his body into the lough and ever since it has been called Taylor's Lough.
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    Killaghaduff Church :-
    It is said that the Catholic Church of this district was formely situated in Killaghaduff. An old man of two generations ago told the following story concerning it and said that he was present when the incidents related therein occurred. Some people in the parish
  5. Stories

    CBÉS 0966

    Page 039

    they carried a coffin. They placed the coffin on the ground quite close to the man and several of them complained of being tired. Then one of them said they must get the man in the rushes to help them. But on the instant the man placed his tongue in his closed fist and they were unable to move him. He remained in this position and when morning came the coffin and people were gone.
    Another version says they overtook the man at a bridge on the road through Altauure and he was compelled to carry the coffin to the old graveyard at Killaghaduff a dis- of five or six miles. Next morning the man was found in a dazed condition lying at the Churchyard andhe was brought home and put to bed and it was several weeks before he was fit to move around.
  6. Old Graveyards

    CBÉS 0966

    Page 156

    Unbaptised children are buried in the drain leading from the cemetery in Killaghaduff. There is a vault in the graveyard too. There are several persons of the O Reilly family buried inside the walls of the ruined monastery.
    In the graveyard at Kinawley Church there is a holy well called '' St Náiles ''
    It is very shallow-scarcely more than a few inches deep. There are trout living in it and it was always believed to be unlucky to interfere with them. About sixty years ago a policeman in Kinawley Barracks determined to catch one of the trout and eat him. He spent several days trying to catch one in the end he succeeded. He cooked the fish and ate him and the next day he went crazy.
  7. Legendary Tales

    CBÉS 0968

    Page 230

    made a false accusation against the priest and one Sunday when about to commence mass he ordered them to leave the church.
    Thy refused to do so. Then he asked the rest of the congregation to follow him. He left the church followed by all except those with whom he had the altercation and he conducted them to a field on the other side of the road where he celebrated mass
    He then cursed those who remained in the church and it is said that the church then fell, those within narrowly escaping death.
    One gable is all that remains standing to-day of the old church of Killaghaduff and it is said that this, in accordance with the curse, will, at some time fall on the funeral of one of the descendants of those on whom it was imprecated
  8. Old Graveyards

    CBÉS 0966

    Page 155

    others say it will be McGovern. Others say it will fall when the second last person in the district is to die. The wall will fall on the last person left and bury him.
    It is said that the old church in Killaghaduff was built in one night.
    At Uachtar Áth[a] near Ballinamore
    the people prepared to build a church. But the wall built each day was knocked down at night. They built it several times and in the end decided to stay and watch.
    At midnight they saw an animal like a hare running in and out and knocking the wall so they decided not to build any more. The Church was afterwards built in the town of Ballinamore.
    At the same place there was a a Holy Well and it was once interfered with and the Spring dried up and opened in another field about 4 mile distant.
    It is at that Holy Well that the Station is now made on St. Brigid's Day.