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  1. (gan teideal)

    “About four miles from Graignamanagh in the townsland of Powerstown, at one time stood a little thatched church in a field of Moarns.”

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    About four miles from Graignamanagh in the townsland of Powerstown, at one time stood a little thatched

  2. An Old Tale from Powerstown

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    An Old Tale from Powerstown.
    Once there lived in Powerstown an old man called Sam Bushel. He had a big farm and was also the Landlord of several other places. He had a few men working for him on his farm. Now there was in his farm an old fort and he called his men one morning and told them to go and cut the bushes round the fort but the men refused. He asked them why they would not cut the fort and they said they would not like to do so. Sam Bushel then offered to cut the first bush if they would cut the rest. They consented to this. So he started and cut a lot of bushes that day. Old Sam was sitting at the fire some nights after when he heard a strange noise like the howling of dogs around the house. Sam went out to the hall door to see what it was. No sooner did he open the door than an big pack of small

  3. (gan teideal)

    “About four miles from Graignamanagh in the townsland of Powerstown, at one time stood a little thatched church in a field of Moarns.”

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    year inscribed on it is 1200 years.
    One day a woman was brought from Kilkenny to be buried at Powerstown. At this time people came from far and near to be buried there. The people buried between two graves, and the owners of these graves were Tobias Brennan and Nicholas Phelan from Powerstown. When they heard the woman was buried between their graves they went that night and took her up and put her standing against the wall. They then went to town and got drunk. When they were coming home they saw the woman standing against the wall in the moon light and they began to run. When Nicholas was going into his own yard he fell into a pond and was drowned. And when Tobias was returning home he was struck dead. The people knew they were after doing something wrong. And when

  4. The Local Saint

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    a serious accident. When coming from Powerstown to Killuragh a "kind of earthquake" occurred in the road and swallowed up both himself and the horse he was driving. He was extricated with difficulty when it was found that the "spine of his back" was broken. Thornhill died the following day.

  5. (gan teideal)

    “There is an old-Lios near Powerstown called Lisronagh...”

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    There is an old lios near Powerstown called LIsronagh. It is said that a De Dannan chief called Ronagh lived there in the old days. The lios is in a big field and the remains can be seen yet. There are some sceac bushes on the ditches yet. A man was coming home from Clonmel one night and he saw a goose with chains around its neck there. Another lios can be seen from Lisronagh.

  6. The Famine Times

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    was very cruel to the people. He was coming from Waterford harbour with potatoes when a great number of his tenants attacked him. They took potatoes from him and they were so hungry that they ate the potatoes raw. There was a depot for distributing yellow meal to the starving people where Powerstown school stands now. Yellow meal was the only food people at during the famine times.

  7. The Famine Times

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    When the famine was in Ireland it did a lot of damage around here. There were more people and houses around here before the famine than there are now. The famine caused a disease and a great number of people died from it. There was a landlord in Powerstown named Conway during famine and he

  8. (gan teideal)

    “The name of my town-land is Moangariffe...”

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    The name of my townland is Moangariffe. The meaning of the word is the rough bog. It is in the barony of Iffa and Offa East. There are only three families in my townland and bout twenty people. It is in the parish of Powerstown. There were a few more families there long ago that there are now.

  9. Colonel's Pond at Barrowmount House

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    present day. I don't know much about Colonel Gore only we know it was from him Gorebridge got its name. And we also know he was buried in Powerstown graveyard. Colonel was a good catholic and always attended Church well. It is said he used always be first in the Church every Sunday.

  10. Old Graveyards

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    There are five graveyards in St. Mary's parish. The cemetary, St. Nicholas', St. Stephen's and St. Mary's
    These are the graveyards in which unbaptised children were buried. Old church Powerstown is round in shape. St. Nicholas' churchyard in the Old Bridge is round and the last corpse was buried in it forty years ago. St. Stephen's churchyard is

  11. (gan teideal)

    “In olden times the people could not have any schools unless they were private ones...”

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    In olden times the people could not have any schools unless they were private ones. They had to have them in a barn or in an outside house out in the open air. A man named O Gorman of Powerstown had a school in his barn. A teacher came there every morning to teach those pupils. Children came from all around to that school. Thirty or forty pupils attended evry morning. It is said that not evern one of those pupils was ever absent from this school. They had no pens or pencils and they wrote on slates with slate pencils. The Landlords over all places were Protestants and they would not allow them to have any Catholic schools. They did not begin to go to school

  12. (gan teideal)

    “When the people of Powerstown came to steal St Patrick's calf...”

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    When the people of Powerstown came to steal St Patrick's calf they brought the calf along by Houlahans and down past Pad Burkes house and then they heard the cow coming after them so off they went towards Lismore. The cow was almost up to them there so they dropped the calf into the river and the water instantly turned black and from that on it was called the blackwater. When the cow reached the spot where the calf was thrown in, she came back the same way until she reached the meetingof the glens ( Glen Gowley and Glen Brigdhe) she started rooting the ground with her horns until until she had a big hole made. The hole is called An Crudh because it is shaped like a horse shoe.

  13. Legends - The Old Woman and St Patrick

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    It is said that there was a woman in a field in Powerstown and she had a basket with her. She had six pounds of butter in the basket. She met St. Patrick and he asked her what she had in the basket and she said six yards of muslin, then she said six pounds of butter. He said if it be butter "let it be butter and if it be muslin let it be muslin." Then he went away and the woman looked into the basket and there were six yards of muslin in the basket. There is a stone in that field on it there is "In remembrance of the six yards of muslin."
    I got this legend from my Grandmother Mrs. Byrne.

  14. Cures

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    Phyllis McGrath Powerstown Road Clonmel
    My mother told me these cures. Some years ago Doctors were very few and expensive so the poor people had no free treatment. So they practiced a lot of cures of their own. Nettles in the month of May kept away sickness for the while year. To stop bleeding people put the key of the door down their back and lie down flat. The cure of measles was to stop a man with a white horse and ask him what to do. Whatever he would say would cure them.

  15. (gan teideal)

    “My father Patrick Burke told me about this fort.”

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    Kitty Burke Newtown Anner Clonmel
    My father Patrick Burke told me about this fort. There is a fort in O Keeffee's land Ballinvoher, Powerstown. If you stood very near this fort you could see to another fort which is on the land of Mr Darmody. It is said that the fairies go from one of these forts to the other on horseback. Very seldom people cut the ditches which are around forts. When Mr O Keeffee wanted to cut the ditch around the fort he put a number of stones upon each other and he used to say, "Fairies, if ye have any objection against me in cutting his ditch, let these stones be knocked in the

  16. The Mc Craith anf the Osborns

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    affairs he did not like to leave them destitute and so they were very handsome girls he decided to marry one of them. He asked the eldest and she refused. He asked the second eldest and she refused also. Not to be beated he asked the third and she consented.Her name was Maire and there was often a Maire or Maira in the Osborn family ever since.
    After a while they left Sledy Castle and went to live in Tickincor Castle. The Osborns bought land in Tipperary and built Newtown Anner House as a new residence and Tickincor Castle fell into ruin. Sir Thomas Osborn built a bridge across the Suir to make it easy to get to his lands in Co. Waterford.
    There is a story connected with the building of the bridge. On one occasion when Osborn and others were having a convivial meeting at the house of Bagnell in Powerstown it happened as was not unusual that Osborn was one of those who succumbed to the strong wines and fell under the table. Which in that state

  17. The Bean Sí

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    Sometimes around Mulhuddartt when a person is dying the relations of that person hear the "Bean Sidhe". This ghostly woman has also been seen several times. She had a white dress and had long dark hair which covered her back. She is not heard at everybody's death because she only follows certain families. It is said that where she passes over she leaves a trace such as a nail, a hair pin or a comb. Some of these things have been found and the finders burned them. The "Bean Sidhe" has been heard in the following places: Powerstown, Parslickstown, Macetown and in the village itself. The following are a list of those who have heard the bean sidhe: Mrs Reilly, Mrs Critchley, Miss Carr, Mr Carr, Mr Caffrey and Mr Critchley. This ghostly weeper was heard at the death of the following people: Mrs Byrne, Miss Cummins, Mrs Coleman, Miss Carr, Timothy Carr, William Carr and Mr Caffrey.
    One night many years ago some men from the village went out to capture the "bean sidhe". They brought with them a gun. They found her along the river and they followed her. After

  18. Extract from Statistical Observations. of County Kilkenny, Written by, William Tighe, Woodstock. In the year 1800.

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    of them, and particulay of the apples, which fatten them greatly; and these may be given to sheep as soon as the potatoes ae dug, even though the leaves are withered.
    At Powerstown lime is sold by the barrel of four bushels from 16d; and the stone, for the sake of a good quarry, is drawn some miles: farmers from the county of Wexford, come here to purchase lime, and draw it home 25 or 30 miles, over mountain roads and through difficult passes, as the Scollagh gap near Mount Leinster; the lime on the car is covered by a close mat. Near Gowran 120 barrels are commonly put on an acre, and more by rich farmers.
    Limestone is brought up the Nore from quarries above Waterford bridge. An injuction was obtained to prevent raising

  19. Severe Weather

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    Severe Weather
    On the 19th of February 1892 a thunderstorm which shall never be forgotten occurred. Dr. Walsh of Graiguenamanagh was to be elected coroner for St.Kilkenny and the election took place at Thomastown. On that morning every voter in the Parishes of Graig and Powerstown went to Thomastown to cast their votes. Three public houses in Thomastown were open all day and supplied drink free of charge to all who asked for it. Many indulged a little too far and forget all about the outside world until they heard that it was commencing to snow. The wind blew from the S. East and the snow fell in small dry flakes. The people coming in the Coppena direction were hard pressed as it was facing them and it was with much difficulty that some reached Coppenagh that night. One ___ was exhausted and would certainly have died were it not for the Fitzgerald family of Coppenagh who heard his screams and treated him kindly overnight.
    Another serious snow-storm occurred

  20. (gan teideal)

    “Smart Brigade" was a greyhound pup owned by Mr Richard Gorman, Charles St. Midleton...”

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    "Smart Brigade" was a greyhound pup owned by Mr Richard Gorman, Charles St. Middleton. In November 1928 he won the Cork Cup at Ballincollig, and in the spring of 1929 was entered for the Greyhound Derby at Powerstown Park, Clonmel. This is, as it was then, the highest grade event for dog puppies, in Irish park Coursing. To prove what a genuine performer he was, Smart Brigade fought his way into the semi-final of the Derby. In this course he fell and broke his neck.
    The song is the composition of Patrick O'Connell, Esq. Charles St. Middleton, who died a year ago at the early age of 45. He was a carpenter, employed by the Great Southern Railways Company.

    A remarkable feature of this dog was that his lower jaw was somewhat shorter than usual (undershod) and this was responsible for his death. He grabbed at the hare and buried his jaw in the sod. Owing to being "undershod" he was badly held, and whole weight of his body combined with the momentum broke his neck. He was killed instantly and the winning flag (Smart Brigade's) was raised when he was already dead.