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COUNTY ROSCOMMONFolklore & Oral History

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The County Library Service and the Heritage Office of Roscommon County Council are proud supporters of the work of the County Roscommon Folklore & Oral History Network since 2006 when the Network was established. This project affords Roscommon County Council an opportunity to work in co-operation with interested people to support our heritage and culture, and enhance the quality of life of people in the county, by providing this fantastic resource for future generations to enjoy.

Over the past ten years a unique collection of stories about life in Roscommon has been collected from all corners of the county. Every year, during National Heritage Week, new additions to the collection have been added. The collection has grown and developed over the years, with the addition of video footage, kindly donated by Seán Browne, from his archive. The lives and stories recounted in the collection provide a great insight into times gone by and how people lived their lives and went about their business over the past 100 years.

In this centenary year, we have highlighted interviews in the collection which have particular interest in terms of their insight into the period 1916-1926 as viewed through the eyes of those interviewed.

Eugene Cummins, Chief Executive, Roscommon County Council

Message from Roscommon County CouncilChief Executive

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The County Roscommon Folklore and Oral History collection is the first major collection of folklore and oral history to encompass the whole county since the Schools Folklore Collection which was carried out in the years 1937/8. The schools collection of folklore is available in the County Library and on www.duchas.ie.

James “Jim” Delaney, who lived in Kiltoom, spent more than 30 years gathering tales of the life, lore and traditions of the people throughout Roscommon but the concentration of his work was in the south of the county. His work is now housed at the National Folklore Collection in University College Dublin (UCD). Dr Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, lecturer in Irish Foklore in UCD has pointed out that “His work was of particular importance because he documented the richness of tradition in the midlands, that great storehouse that very often goes completely unrecognised.”

Dr. Douglas Hyde was a significant collector of folklore in Co. Roscommon and many of his collections were published in both Irish and English.

Likewise, Sir William Wilde collected folk tales and superstitions from his boyhood spent in Roscommon. They were published as Irish popular superstitions.

Other folklore collections in the county...

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Introduction to County Roscommon Folklore & Oral History Network

County Roscommon Folklore and Oral History Network is a group of interested individuals who came together to take part in a Folklore & Oral History training project which was being run by the Heritage Office of Roscommon County Council back in 2005. The training project, under the direction of Anne Ridge, covered all aspects of recording folklore and oral history. Initially older people, in particular, were recorded so that their knowledge would not be lost. The recordings were then transferred to CD and transcribed. The interviewees and their families were given a CD of the recording and their consent was obtained before thematerial was given to the County Library.

All interviews are carried out in accordance with best practice guidelines. Every year, since 2006, we have added new recordings to our collection and we are proud to celebrate over ten years of collecting Folklore and Oral History in the county. All interviewers and interviewees give their time freely and with great enthusiasm. Roscommon County Council works in partnership with us in terms of administrative support, transcription and presenting our collection to the public through the County Library Service, as an action of the County Roscommon Heritage Plan. We hope you enjoy the collection.

James Dockery, Chairperson, County Roscommon Folklore and Oral History Network

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Who we are and what we do...

County Roscommon Folklore and Oral History Network are volunteers who interview and record people with interesting stories to tell about their life. Their stories shed light on times gone past - ways of working, travelling, socialising, communicating, learning, playing, praying, cooking, farming and much more.

These stories may be familiar to many of us of now, but we must remember in a few short years these stories will be a revelation to future generations who have grown up with electricity, cars, mobile phone, wi-fi and social media. Can they possibly imagine life as it was lived in the county over the past 100 years or so? This collection has much to teach future generations.

County Roscommon Folklore and Oral History Network simply identifies people who they feel have an interesting story to tell. The interviewer is introduced to the person if they do not know them. If people agree to being interviewed they visit them in their homes and have a chat with them. This chat or ‘interview’ is recorded and put on to CD. The CD is left back with the interviewee for them to listen to and see that they are happy with their interview. If they want anything edited out of the interview, this can be done for them. When they are happy with the interview, and oral consent is given, it is added to the collection. At that stage it is sent for transcription. The transcription is checked and corrections made if necessary. Once the recording and transcription are in order, the interview can be uploaded to the collection. The collection is available, free, to the public via the County Library Service, during library opening hours.

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To access the collection, just ask for it at any library in the county. Library staff will get you set up at a computer and show you how to access the collection. It is simple so don’t worry. Make yourself comfortable, put the headphones on and listen to the recordings and watch the videos to your heart’s content!

Aim of this booklet

This booklet aims to spread the word about our collection. Who has been recorded? Where are they from? Who recorded them and when was the recording made? What do the interviewees talk about? What might I hear that I didn’t hear before?

This booklet captures the collection as it stands in 2016. We hope it will continue to grow and expand.

As part of the 1916:2016 Roscommon Centenary Programme, interviews which shed light on life in the period 1916-1926 have been highlighted.

Where to hear the interviews and watch the videos

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Farrell O’Gara, Scramogue, Strokestown

Bord na Móna, Setting up of Bord na Móna, Drainage, Railways, Cutting the turf, People employed, Milled peat, ESB Power Station in Lanesboro, Walpole, Villages built for the workers, Cloontuskert, Derryhawn, Hearthstone from Corcoran’s house, Famine, Mahons, Death of a family member in a limekiln, Scramogue Ambush and the Black and Tans, Rambling houses.

James Dockery,2005

Farrell O’Gara, Scramogue, Strokestown

Floods December 1954, Christmas, Goose for Christmas, Christmas cheques, St. Stephen’s Day, Wren Boys, Ghosts, Haunted Houses, IRA, Wakes, Barn Dances, Joints, Last Race in Strokestown, Du�y’s Circus, Turkeys, Foxes.

Margaret Faughnan, 2005

John “Jack” Healy, Kildalogue, Strokestown

Black and Tans, Scramogue Ambush, Sharkey Sisters, Political Meetings during the 1930s, De Valera, Madam Markievicz, Blizzard 1947, Blueshirts, Brennan’s Hall , Country-house Dances, Compulsory Tillage, Stag Hunt, Joe Hayden, Electricity in Strokestown in the 1930s, �e Troubles, Horses and Racecourses, Funerals, Tradesmen in Strokestown, Morohans’ Printing Press, �e Strokestown Democrat, Fairs, Cattle Dealers, Show Day.

Henry Owens, 2006

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John “Jack” Healy, Kildalogue, Strokestown

Wakes, Stations, Vestment Box, �e Wedding Drive, �e Wedding Meal, Kiltrustan Football Team in 1930s, Bicycle Race in the 1930s, Burial of Stillborn Infants in Strokestown Cemetery, Roscommon Hunt Meeting in 1936 at StrokestownHouse, Change from Ploughingwith Horses to Tractors.


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Rory Kildu� ,Main Street, Ballinasloe

Kildu�’s Saddlery, Harnesses, Hides, Silver Harnesses, Aran Islands, Ballinasloe Horse Fair, Faction Fighting, Pitch and Toss, Tolls on Roads, Clanncarty, Men’s Clubs, Card Playing, Nap, Rambling Houses, Mission, Funerals, Rathpeake House, Political Meetings, Paddy Hogan, Fishing, Shooting, Weddings, Electricity, Ceili's, Carnivals, To�s, Mental Home, Turf, Supplying Turf to the Mental Home, Margaret Dooran, ...

James Dockery, 2005

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(cont’d)...Teeth Pulling at October Fair, Ballinasloe, Quigley’Band,Harcourt’s Hardware, Tomasheen Higgins, Gunpowder Explosion, Sports, Bicycle Races, Horse Racing, Dick Kenny, Dance Hall in the Workhouse, Post O�ce, Slot Machines, First World War, British Legion Club, Ex. Soldiers Stories.

Canal in Ballinasloe, Railway Company, First World War, Gasworks, Lamplighter, Fire Brigade, Mill, Foresters’ Hall, General O’Du�y, Sports, Cycle Racing, GAA, Duggan Park, ‘Ham Sunday’, �e Green, Clan Carty, Cricket Team, Lord Ashtown, Races in Kilbegley, Duel between Darcy and Kelly, Millers House, Tennis Clubs, Hockey Clubs, Moore, George Nolan, ‘Legs Diamond’, Harper’s Hall, Dances, Circus, Portiuncula.

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Michael Cunnane, Knockavurrea, Tulsk

Drimnagh Farm, Caslin Bog, Cunningham family, School in the 1930s, Rathcroghan School, Seamus de Brun, Compulsory Tillage, Hedge Schools, Flaska, R.I.C, De Valera, 1916, Michael Collins, Percy French, Dr. Douglas Hyde, Macra na Feirme.

Anne Ridge, 2005

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Derrarogue, Cloontuskert, Hostel for workers, Turkish workers, Baggers, Lilyput, Turf Harvesting, Railway Collector, Bord na Móna Villages, Houses for workers, O�cial Opening and Blessing of the Villages, Poem by Seamus Kelly, First Power Station in 1955, Second Power Station in 1966, �ird Power Station in 1983, Fourth Station in 2005, Ballyleague, Funerals, O�erings at Funerals, Dances, Maypole.

James Dockery, 2006

Athlone Woollen Mills, �e beginning, Agricultural implements, People who worked there, Where �eeces were obtained, Management, Wages, Various processes in the mills, John McCormack, Products, Prizes, �e �re in 1940, Description of the �re, Buildings in Northgate Street, Managing the �re, A�er the �re, Fund set up, ...

Seosaimhín Ní Mhuirí (Josephine Murray), �e Park, Deerpark, Athlone

Rosaleen Fallon, 2006

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(cont’d)... E�ect of �re on town of Athlone, Where people found work a�erwards, Endof woollen mills, Other companies in building, Shops in Church Street, Athlone, John Mullaney and Fianna Éireann, Liam Mellows.

Seosaimhín Ní Mhuirí (Josephine Murray), �e Park, Deerpark, AthloneSeosaimhín Ní Mhuirí (Josephine Murray), �e Park, Deerpark, Athlone


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�e Réalt in Athlone, Revival of Pattern in Brideswell in 1957, Randal McDonnell Stone in Brideswell, Ceidhlidh a�er Pattern, Visitors from Dublin, Brideswell Local Committee in 1957, Format of Pattern, Statue in Brideswell, Miss Biddies (Brídeoga), Cult of St Brigid, Racing Cattle and Horses through Fire, Iron Tongs over Cradle, Hallowe’en Custom, St. Brigid and the Cloth, St Brigid and Our Lady, St Brigid Crosses the Bridge of Athlone.

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Joe Rhattigan, Rooskey

Fair Day Strokestown, Fair Day Mohill 25th Feb, Banshee, St. Stephen’s Day, St. Stephen’s Night in Kilmore, Bon�re Night, Coxs’ Cross Bon�re, Halloween, Gypsies, Travellers, Matchmaking, Stations, Going Astray at Night.


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John Ward, Cregganabeaka,Clonown, Athlone

Marriage Customs, �e Sherra�, Match-making, �e Fortune, Working in Athlone, Inheritance, January Fair in Athlone, Transporting Pigs by Cot, Mowing, Making the Reek.


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Mary Mannion,Baylough, Athlone

Marriage Customs, Matchmaking, �e Serra�, Children Born outside Marriage, �e Fortune, Crops, Selling Eggs and Butter, Women in Pubs, Women Working on the Farm, Meitheal for �reshing.


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Teresa Caul�eld, Lowtown, Ballydangan.

Going to School, Country Shop, Oil Lamps, War Years, Eggs for Groceries, Selling Turf, Spreading Slits (planting potatoes), Dances, Kielty Hall, �e Maypole, Market.


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015 Casino Ballroom, Savoy Ballroom, Carnivals, St. Stephen’s Night 1964, �e Bella Hall, Mass in Casino, Alcohol, Joe Frazer, Seán Doherty, Big Bands, Building of the Casino, Flooring, Lighting, Bingo, Dressing Rooms, Employment.

Paddy Malone, Rosmeen, Ballintubber

James Dockery, 2006

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Anthony Tuohy,Main Street, Castlerea

Wilde Family, Arm Lodge, Connolly’s Saw Mills, Ted Mc Loughlin, Methodist Church, Maureen Gannon, Blacksmiths in Castlerea, Flynn’s Pub, Halloran’s, John Fitzgibbons, Sandfords, Parnell, Doughlas Hyde, Longford House, Michael Tighe, Arm Caisheal,King Daithi, O’Conors, Bishop Phair, Lesley Phair, Wind Chargers, Bishop Young, Harristown House, St Keelan, Tarmon, Stone Masons, Fr. O’Flanagan, Newfoundland, Castlerea Jail, Ned Du�y, Morahan Printers, Brewery, Kilkeevan.

Colm Daly and Patsy Mc Cahill, 2006

Tom Moore, St. Paul’s Terrace, Athlone

Tom Moore, �e Troubles, Black and Tans, James Tormley, Jim Byrne, �e Playboy of the Western World, History of the Abbey �eatre, Shows in Moore, Pantomime, Brendan Shine, �e Auld Boneshaker (song),High Nellie, Battery School, Athlone Tech, Joe Flynn, Birmingham, He’s Back (play), Army, Gorry Bog, Lebanon, Songwriting.

John O’Shea, 1989

Rose Anne Beirne, Ballincurley North, Ballinaheglish

Marriage, Dowries, Spalpín Corner, Seasonal Work, Matchmaking, Lent, Straw Boys, Nuptial Mass, Wedding Breakfast, Clothes, Rural Electri�cation, Wiring costs, Rambling Houses, Card Games, Country House Dances, Cures, Itinerants, Sheep Shearing, Wool, Shoes, Spinning Wool, Dying Wool, Missions, Redemptorists, Sermons.

James Dockery, 2005

Economic War, Dole, Road Works, Turf, Phoenix Park, Trains Bicycles, Petrol Allowance, Tillage, Rabbits, Pigeons, Gaelic Football, Lighting, Dance Bands, Second World War, Lord Haw Haw, Censorship, Cinema, Soccer, 1943 All Ireland, Dan O’Rourke, Fight in Ballintubber Church, Mental Hospital, Noel Browne, T.B. Merlin Park, Cures, Jaundice, Fluke, Ringworm, Big Snow 1947, Funerals, Poteen, Rambling Houses, Newspapers, Banshee, South Park House, Balfes, Caoiners, Land Commission, Tarmon School.

Paddy Concannon, Knockmurray,Castlerea

James Dockery, 2005

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Political Meetings, Clann na Poblachta, De Valera, James Dillon, Ballyfarnon, Drama, M.J. Molloy, Ferrets, Rabbits, Fishing, Poaching, South Park Estate, Major Balfe, Mount Talbot, Stag Hunting, Fox Hunting, Geese, Castlerea Fowl Market, Eggs, Workhouse in Castlerea, Famine Pots, Mother Paul, Famine Burials, Sinn Féin, Cattle Driving, Land Commission.

Ballintubber Fair, Matchmaking, Castlerea Pig Fair, Jobbers, Castlerea Fairgreen, Blockers, Towey, Mart, Buyers at Fairs, Castlerea Horse Fair, �e Mission, Maypole, Religion, Protestants, Village Station, Vestment Box, Station Breakfast, Wages and Oats, Tinkers, Tinsmiths, Schooling, Turf, Bog Roads, Minor Relief Schemes, Stealing Turf, Changes in Saving Turf, Protecting Bogs, Turbary Rights, Fixed Price on Turf.

Forge, Cures for Warts, Coal, Curraghboy, Lisbrock, Anvil, Sheep Crook, Shoeing Horses, Nails, Shortage of Iron, Forge, Itinerants Smiths, Payment, Fairs, Weight of a Shoe, Horse Shoes, Spear for Catching Fish, Brands, Blacksmith’s Curse, Blacksmiths Headstones, Ornamental Work, Racehorse shoes, Anvil Sounds.

John Joe MalleyCloonslanor, Strokestown

Curraroe, Bord na Mona, Mount Dillon, Bagger, Blacksmith’s Trade, Pat Malley, Shoeing a Horse, Cart Wheels, Welding, Tempering, Driving Rods, Nooses, Tongs, Rural Electri�cation, Horse Shoes, Frost Nails, Iron, Forge, Lanesborough Fair, Haunted Houses, Lisonu�y Graveyard, Ploughing, Tragic Accident.

Henry Owens, 2006

James Murray,Lisbrock, Brideswell, Athlone

James Dockery, 2006

024 Tommy Gaynor, Main Street, Castlerea

Colm Daly, 2006

Hugh Gaynor, Cla�eys, Rationing, Black Market Tea, Order to Guinness in 1912, Eggs, Fair Mornings, Carriage Paid Home, Credit, Wages, Paddy Heavey, Mary Gannon, Dosing Animals, Christmas, Undertaking Business, Horse Hearses, Habit, Burial Charge, Cremation, Funeral Customs.

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James Cox, ‘Gay�eld House’, Legan, Kilglass

Ploughing, David Brown Tractor, Horse Ploughing, Lanesborough Fair, Longford Horse Fair, Monaghan Day in Mohill, Strokestown Fair, Ballinasloe Fair, Napoleon, Compulsory Tillage, �reshing, ‘Garvie’ �resher, Reaper and Binder, Big Snow 1947, Ford Ferguson, Maurice Cox, Paddy Doorley, Horse-drawn �resher, Wages during the War Years.

Henry Owens, 2006

Scramogue Ambush, IRA, Black and Tans, Curragh, Mc Keown, Fr. Michael O’Flanagan, RIC, Count Plunkett, IRA Pensions, Ashbrook, Wallpole, Working in America, Cobh, Marriage, Banshee, Cures, Burn, Mankeeper (insect), Ringworm, Bord na Móna, Boat from America, Ringworm.

Margaret Feeney, Ashbrook, Strokestown

Scramogue Ambush, Black and Tans, IRA, Executions by the IRA, �e Truce.


Kay and Michael Ra�ery, Knockroe, Castlerea

Pat Flynn, Undertaking Business, Connolly Brothers, Castlerea Lighting and Milling Company, Mullarkeys, Mc Dermotts, Demesne, Fair Green, Town Trust, Lord Sandford, Fairs, John Fitzgibbons, Market House, Post O�ce, Sanatorium, Protestant Church, Nally’s Saddlery, Tennis Club, Sir William Wilde, Harristown House, Cra� Business, Slough, Windsor, Traders Association, Chamber of Commerce, Castlerea Enterprize, Hanley Hall.

Anne Ridge, 2006

Margaret Feeney, Ashbrook, Strokestown

James Dockery, 2006

George Quinn,Ballintubber, Castlerea

Ballintubber, Football, St. Croan’s, Dan O’Rourke, Long Jump, Ballinaheglish, Training, War Years, Bicycles, Sports, James Kenny, George Geraghty, Athlone, Army, Ballintubber Athletic Club, Handball, Rugby, Soccer.

Patsy Mc Cahill, 2006

Sister Gertrude Connolly, Brackloon, Castlerea

Rosary, Mass, Presentation College, Mountmellick, California, Brackloon, Tully School, Caddlebrook School, San Bernardino, San Bruno Prison, Homeless, Baslick, Vatican II, Changes in Religious life.

Seán Ra�ery, 2006

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Cunningham Family Murder, Lisphelim, Cures Regarding Eggs and Plants, Egg Collectors, Fowling, Gort, Haunted Houses, Hudson-Gunning House, Lecarrow, Killahan, Lough Funshinagh (Lough Winshin), Migratory Birds, Murder in Killahan and Gort in 1877, Murder in Lisfelim in 1895, Native Birds, St. John's Wood Flora, Superstitions Regarding Milking and Churning, Superstitions regarding Robins, Trapping and Exporting of Pigeons and Lapwings during World War II, Trapping of Gold�nches, Wild Birds of Lough Funshinagh and Lough Ree Areas, Wild Birds.

�e Year of the Corncrake

Irish Wildbird Conservancy (I.W.C), Corncrake, Habitat, Farming Practices, Harvesting, Shannon, Callows, Bord na Móna, Banagher, Clonburren, Cappaleitra.

John O’Shea, 1991

Andy Lawlor, Tibarney, Four Roads

New Year’s Day, Geese, Dances, Four Roads, Rahara, Hansel Monday, May Day, Fire on May Day, Borrowing on May Day, Cattle, Butter, Maypole, Good Friday, Sowing Cropson Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Lilies,White, Washing Sheep, Evil Eye, Bon�re Night, Fairies, Garland Sunday, Patterns, Faction Fighting, Croagh Patrick, Hallowe’en, Christmas, Cleaning for Christmas,Midnight Mass, St. Stephen’s Day, Wren, Marriage, Shrove, Matchmaking, Dowry, Marriage Banns, Chalk Sunday, Puss Sunday, Fertility in Marriage – oaten bread,Honeymoons.

James Dockery, 2006

Jack Kilcline, Carrigeenmore, Knockcroghery

James Dockery, 2006

Annuities, Mount Talbot, Rents, Four Roads, Sheep/Wool, Clothes, Ballygar, Land Commission, Val Mac Donald, School, Food, Teachers/Mr Heavey, Ghosts, Fr. Brady, Twel�h Night, Rush Candles, Cures, Quacks, Chape Jacks, Athleague Fair, Ballygar Fair, Dan O’Rourke, Tolls, Pigs, Railing Cattle, Currency, Ploughman Notes, Economic War, Rationing, Bicycle Tyres, Card Playing.

Andy Lawlor, Tibarney, Four Roads

James Dockery, 2006

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James Dockery, 2006

Liam Kelly, Church Street, Creagh, Ballinasloe

St. Brigid’s Hospital Ballinasloe, Psychiatric Nurses, An Bord Altranais, Night duty, ANCO’s, TB Patients, St. Patrick’s Hospital Castlerea, Merlin Park, Monaldai Drainage Systems, Tomograms, INAH tablets and PAS, Lungs, Our Lady of Lourdes Credit Union Ballinasloe, Hire Purchase, Moneylenders, Pawn Shops, Oath of Allegiance, Representativeof the Irish League of Credit Unions, Hall of Fame along with John Hume and Kathleen Matthews. Cereal Sowing, Spade Lug Tractor, Compulsory Tillage, Cutting Corn, Mowing Machines, Stooks of Corn, Stacks of Corn, Reaper and Binder, �reshing, Land Commission Workers, Harvesting, Lecarrow, Knockcroghery, Roscommon, Superstitions, �e Emergency & Unemployment, Mitching from School, Haggard, Milling Oats, Kiln Drying Corn, White Water made from Oaten Meal, Bad Winter 1947, �atching, Flail used for �reshing Corn, Scutching Corn, Dances at Harvest Time, Lodged Corn, Rye, Winnowing Corn, Bart - Measurement of Corn, Construction of Stooks and Stacks, Reeds used for �atching, Starlings Roosting Habits, Recitations from the Ballymurray/Knockcroghery Area, Piseogs Regarding Milking, Eel Fishing on the Shannon, Curses, Quaker Island, Inchcleraun, St. Dermot's Well, Portrun, Cure for Sore Eyes, Clawinch Island, Rinnany.

Noel O'Rourke Cruit,Ballymurray,Roscommon

James Dockery, 2005

Michael Morris, Castlerea

Brothers School, Cloondahara, Rambling Houses, Musicians, Wakes, Christmas, Hackney Cars, Tinkers, Traders, Technical School, Cla�ey’s Bar and Hardware, Andy Cummins, Connollys, Connolly’s Saw Mill and Workshop, Connolly’s Delivery Lorry, Paint, Washing Soda and Bluestone, Tilly Lamps, Glass and Putty, Dak, Churns, Cast Iron Pots, Sulphor,Leather, Hotels, Cinema, Bakeries, Shoemakers, Tailors, Carpenters, Coach Builders, Harness Makers, Garages, Doctors, Vets, Station Masters, Publicans, Hospital, War Years, Big Snow of ‘47, 1943/44 Football Players.

Colm Daly, 2007

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Sanatorium in Castlerea, Donegal, Roscommon, Mayo, Galway, Ballinasloe; Students, Wards, County Homes, Peamount, Farm, Streptomycin, PAS Injection, Lobectomy, Patsy McGarry, �e Irish Times, Sanitary conditions, Jail, Merlin Park, Mental Hospital.

Tom Callaghan, Rathmoyle, Castlerea

Callaghan, O’Callaghan, Hangman, Grangemore, Mullen, Cutting Turf, Depotin the Phoenix Park in Dublin, Sugar Factory in Tuam, Land Exchange, Land Commission, Rathnallog, Carnakit, Cottons, Duignan’s of Rathmoyle, Milk, Horse Fairs in Ballina, Galway city, Turloughmore, Ballisodare, & Swinford; Grants, Enniskillen, Stallion �ghts, Politics, Elections, Canvassing, Chairman of County Council, Roderick O’Connor.

James Dockery, 2006

Katie Callaghan, Rathmoyle, Castlerea

James Dockery, 2006

John Boland, Birchgrove, Creagh, Ballinasloe

Creagh N S, Student in St. Grellan's N S, St. Jarlaths Tuam, Farming, Tulrush, Harmony Henry, St. Pat's Training College Dublin, Teaching in St. Grellan's N S, Hurling, Con�rmation and First Communion, Class Retreats, Perfect Act of Contrition.

John O’Shea, 2007

Mary Watson, Carronderry, Kiltoom

Boats on the Shannon, Turf Cots, Bringing Livestock to the Islands, Sid Shine's Uncle, Accidents on the Shannon, Whit, Tormey, Fishing, Drum Net, William Du�y, Eel Fishing, Flooding on the Shannon, Pleasure Boats, Wakes, Clonmacnoise, Clonown Funerals, Banshee, Nunnery in Clonown, Killing Pigs, Curing Bacon, Black Pudding, Turf Cutting during the Emergency, Army.

James Dockery, 2006

Pub, Preparing Bottles, Bottling Stout and Beer, Ballinasloe Station, Canal, Weights & Measures Inspection, Rural Electri�cation, Bone Fide, Mission, Lent, RTE, De Valera, Ballinasloe Fair, Tinkers, Currency Changes, Barracks, Characters, Grocery Trade.

Barry Feely, Rock of Doon, Boyle

Ballaghaderreen Cathedral, Quarry in Rock-ingham, Four lights in circle of Celtic Cross, Monuments for the old IRA, Luck Penny, Black Granite Headstones, Reredos, Corner boys in Boyle, Abbey Park GAA �eld, Boyle Arts Festival, Kilkenny Limestone, Belgium Limestone.

Tony Conboy, 2007

Tom Killeen, Togher, Ballinasloe

James Dockery, 2006

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Eithne Quinn,Cruby Hill,Roscommon

Roscommon Credit Union,Community Council, Hospital Action Committee (HAC), Fitzgerald Report, County Council Elections, HAC Protest March, Election of 1987,Tom Fox Election of 1989, St. Patrick's Hospital Castlerea TB patients, Tom Collins, Dances at Johnny Burkes, Opening of Sanatorium, Strike at the Sanatorium.

James Dockery, 2007

Patrick (Pat) Nally, Ardnamullagh, Ballintubber, Castlerea

Ballymoe Station, Knock, Specials, �e Sta�, Steam Trains, Dominic Connor, Ballymoe, Kenny's Ballintubber, Early's Bush�eld, Raferty's, Clondoyle, Ballast Trains, Towey's, Hackney Cars.

Colm Daly, 2007

Mickey Di�ey,Bridge Street, Strokestown

Butcher Shop, Fairs in Strokestown, Elphin, Longford, Roscommon, Tulsk or Mohill; Black Polly or Black Whitehead, Animal Feed and Land Quality, Own Mark and OwnRaddle, Humane Killer, A Beef Tree, �e Sti� and the Hide, �e Warble Fly, �e Green O�al, �e Internal Organs, Tolls at Fairs.

James Dockery, 2007

Knockalegan, Castleplunkett, Castleteehan, Butler's of Heath�eld, Racehorses, Congested Districts Board, Major Balfe, Southpark, Irwin's of Rathmoyle, Land Commission, Cherry�eld, Elphin.

Mary J Daly, Ballintubber, Castlerea

Post O�ce in Ballintubber, Convent of Mercy Roscommon, Boarding School, Day Girls, Uniform, Vocations, Miss Scally, Campaign for Post O�ce, Meetings, Boycott, Kennedys of Castleross, Rates, Fleet Street, Public Phone, Elphin 1-4, Mail Car, Telegrams, Parcels, Carnivals, Blue Shirts.

James Dockery, 2008

Johnny Dowd, Knockalegan,Lissalway, Castlerea

Manus Tiernan, 1983

John & Molly Carlos, Rusheen, Castleplunket

Parish of Baslick, Lisheen, Ardeevin, Mass Path, Cuttle, Carlos, Casey, Ra�erty, Castle-plunkett, Castleplunkett School, Milltown, Mullygallan, Cloonau�ll, Lynn's Quarry, Rev. Michael Flood, Lissalway, Rev. T. Dillon, Heath�eld House, Tamerline (racehorse), Mockler, Irwins, Fairs, Emlagh House, Black and Tans at Emlagh House, Black And Tans, Hidden Fenian Era Pistols, Drishaghaun, Holy Well in Tobereliva, Curfew, Famine Grave, Disarming of a soldier by Andy Smith, Digging Wells, Saw Mill, Rathmoyle House.

Manus Tiernan, 1983

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Breedge Keaveney, St. Patrick Street, Castlerea

Castlerea shops, Tarmon, Loughglynn, IRB, Old IRA, Prison, Prisoners from Castlerea being brought to Ballykinlar, �e Troubles, Guns, Republicans, Policeman and railway men who helped the Republicans, Markets, Fairs, Sandford Demesne, Town's Trust, Sewerage Scheme Strike Poem.

Sean Ra�ery, 2007

Roscommon Herald, Printing Apprenticeship, Printing Techniques, Distribution, 1947 Snow, Boyle DC Current, ESB, Obituaries, Weekly Columns, Politicians, Fires, Rockingham, Lough Arrow Crannogs, Murders, Jasper Tully, Jack McQuillan, Herald Fire.

Bridget (Birdy) Flanagan, Lismurtagh, Tulsk

Black and Tans, Communion Fast, Bonhams, Playing Tricks, Potatoes, Poverty, Fr. Flanagan, Boystown, Ballymoe, Irish Speaking, Marriage, Mass, Rosary, TB, Poverty, Pig Killing, Childbirth, Infant Mortality, Dowry, School Days.

Sean Ra�ery, 2008

Patsy Brennan, �e Crescent, Boyle

James Dockery, 2007

John Gacquin, Kilderney, Curraghboy, Athlone

Gacquin, Dysart, Farm Inheritance, Breaking Horses, Compulsory Tillage, Economic War, Mills, �reshing, Fairs, Roscommon, Athlone, Cattle, Pig, Fowl Rearing, Rabbits, Matchmaking, Big Houses, Tinkers, Wakes, Funerals, Emigration, Building Trade.

James Dockery, 2006

Paddy Mongey, Carrownderry, Kiltoom, Athlone

Kiltoom House, Field Names, Carrownderry, Gunning, Rabbit Trapping, Butter, Conacre, Eggs, Ferrets, Kiltoom Graveyards, O'Connell Duel, Land Commission, Levinge in Newpark Ardmullen, Crawler Tractor.

James Dockery, 2006

Luke Dolan, Cloonfree, Strokestown

Fairs in Strokestown, Cattle Buyers, Vet Duignan, Joe Casserly, Drover Geoghegans, Fair in Roscommon, Tolls, Old Moore's Almanac, Tail Eaters, Rabbits, Turkeys, Faction Fight, Towey's, Miss Gray, Cures, Emigrants, Haunted House.

James Dockery, 2008

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Tom Flanagan, Churns, Evictions, �e Famine, Ganger in Dunmore, Rambling Houses, Balfe of Southpark, Tommy Joe Concannon, Johnny Casey, Macra na Feirme, Tulsk Parochial Hall, Mike Dobey, Tarringthe Roads, Telephones, Palkitty or Pollranny, Porter sprees, Carnivals.

Luke Hurley, Clooncan, Gortaganny, Castlerea

Four Mile House Ambush, Scramogue Ambush, Michael Glavey, Master O’Donnell, Ballinlough Barracks, Ms Carlos, Ms O’Callaghan, Ms Taylor, Irish Language, Farming. Feiseanna at Castlerea and Roscommon, Economic War, Burning Barracks, Michael Glavey, 1922 roll books changed from English to Irish.

Mary Kelly, 2003

Dermot Flanagan, Rusheen, Castleplunkett, Castlerea

Manus Tiernan, 1983

Ned Smith, Killmurray, Castlerea

Black and Tans, IRA drilling, Tarmon Killings, Killing of Inspector James King, Informers, �e Murder Gang, Killings at Cloonsuck, Ambush of Black and Tans at Southpark, Mike Hussey's arrest.

Manus Tiernan, 1983

Fr. Donal O’Lehane, Parochial House, Shannonbridge

Lemanaghan, St. Mel’s College, Birmingham, Athlone, Granard, Shannonbridge, Clonmacnoise, Vatican Council, Enclosed Orders, Ministers of the Eucharist, Missions, Pattern St. Ciaran’s Well, Fr Paddy Kenny.

John O'Shea, 1989

Clooneenbaun 'White Clay', Cloneycolgan, Runamote, Writing on Slate at School, Black and Tans, Capturing and Drowning of a Soldier in the Suck, Chichester (landlord), Burning of RIC barracks, Liam T. Cosgrave, Sean MacEoin T.D., Donamon Stars, Oran GAA Club, Brendan Lynch, Ballintubber Fair, Tinkers, Conlon Cup, Horses, Fairs, Compulsory Tillage, Ration Books, Big Snow, Football Matches.

Paddy Doorly, Clooneenbaun, Donamon

Colm Daly, 2007

Bernie Dolan,Lowtown, Ballydangan, Athlone

Ballinasloe Fairs, Blockers, Bargaining, Luck Penny, Tail Eater, Railways, Cheap Jacks, �ree-Card-Trick, Matchmaking, Marts, Blue Cards, Currency Change, Metric Weights, Change from Fairs to Marts.

James Dockery,2006

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Rita Dorr, Donnybrook,Dublin

Ballagh, Hillstreet, Count Plunkett Election 1917, November 11 1918, Auxilliaries, British Army, Black and Tans, Aughrim Volunteers, �e Treaty, Dangan National School, Brennan's, Camden Street, Working in the Draperys, Holidays, Landladies, Old IRA Literary and Debating Society, James Brennan(1916 participant), Percy French, Roscommon Association, 1943 All Ireland, Flooding on the Shannon in the 1950s, RIC, Wren Boys.

Mike Lennon, 2009

Michael Fitzmaurice, Phibsborough, Dublin

Ballinlough, Emigration, Ballina, Drapery Apprentice, Moran Brothers Dublin, Todd Burns's, Roscommon association, 1943 All Ireland, Dances, Outings, Charity, Social & Sport Events, Annual Mass, �e Yearbook, Roscommon Songs Book, County Crest, Arnott's.

Mike Lennon, 2009

Cloonfree N.S., Rag Football, Matches, Kiltrustan Football Club, Tarmon Football Club, Strokestown Football Club, Tom Shevlin, Football Matches at �e Demesne, Pakenham Mahon, Black and Tans, Mount Browne, Walter Jones, Turf Cutting, Stealing of Turf, Ambushs at Fourmilehouse and Ashbrook, Revenge Killing by Black and Tans, Division of Land at Mount Browne.

Tom and Bridget Ryan, Rathmoyle, Castlerea

Irwin’s Rathmoyle House, “�e Plains of Rathmoyle”, Sale of Rathmoyle, Ghosts, Herds, Eviction, Friars, Ballinasloe Fair.

Manus Tiernan, 1983

Luke Dolan, Cloonfree, Strokestown

James Dockery, 2008

Pa Collins, Ballyglass, Kilmurry, Castlerea

Black and Tans, British Army, School, Frenchpark Ambush, Emigration, Republicans, Troubles, Flying Columns, 1917 Election, Count Plunkett, Cattle Drives, Wages, Poitín.

Sean Ra�ery, 2007

Tom Kelly, Grange, Curraghboy, Athlone

Sarah Kelly, Lysters of Lyster�eld, Cures, �e Banshee, Rambling House, Black and Tans in Curraghboy, Lismoyle School, War Veterans, Duels, Murders, Dances, Missions, Wakes, Funerals, Stations.

James Dockery, 2006

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Brigid Kavanagh, A native of Bunnamucka, Strokestown

John Shiel, Drinaun, Carpenter Wheel Shoeing, Matchmaking, Chalk Sunday, Stations, House Dances, Rambling House, Canadian Plane Crash, Bunnamucka.

Mike Lennon, 2010

James Gordon, Manor, Tulsk

Athletics, Sliabh Ban Harriers, Ballinaheglish, Bare Feet, Spikes, Bord na Mona, Ballyconnell, Prizes, Medals, National Athletic and Cycling Association (N.A.C.A), Greyhounds, Manor Susie.

James Dockery, 2010

Tailor, Boyle, Prince Albert’s, Roman Soutanes, �e Goose, �e Donkey, Sitting Crossed Legged, Dance Marquees, King House, Animal Stories.

Marty Flanagan, Attaballa, Elphin

Open Coursing, Park Coursing, Netting Hares, Slipper Castleland, Coursing Meetings, Judge, Bookmakers, Greyhound Training, Greyhound Breeding, Rabbits, Ferrets, Rambling House, Card Playing, Wakes.

James Dockery, 2010

Michael Harrington, Carrick Road, Boyle

Frank Tivnan, 2010

Michael Corcoran, Carrowroe, Rathcline

Famine Evictions, Stick-foot Johnston, Ambushes, Black and Tans, Bank Raids, Civil War, Economic War, Land Annuities, LDF Pipe Band, �e Big Snow, Transportation to Van Diemen's Land, Count Plunkett.

John Casey, 2006

Paddy Downeswith Paul Healy, Castlerea

Castlerea, First World War, Connaught Rangers, IRA, Civil War, Free State, Irregulars, Church Rd., New Line, Hanly Hall, Connolly Brothers, Railway Station, Achill Train, Football, Working in England and Scotland, Second World War, Sanatorium, T.B., Paddy's parents,Psyche Hanly, Fr. Mullaney, Blueshirts, Bella Hall, 1943 All Ireland, Dan O’Rourke, Castlerea Celtic, John L. Browne, John Murphy, Fife and Drum Bands, Economic War, Roscommon Jerseys, Soccer Team of 1940s, Castlerea, Minors, Tarmon Juniors, Danny Burke, Micky Egan, Kilteevan.

Seán Browne, 2007

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Marist Brothers Strokestown, Brother Hubert Cunni�e, Catholic Boy Scouts, Investiture Ceremony, Rooskey Regatta, Pipe Band, Summerhill College Sligo, College Burse(Scholarship), Swimming Pool, Meals, Discipline, Sports, Peter Molloy,Jack McQuillan, Vocations.

Paddy Moore, Riverside Place, Athlone

Macra na Feirme Taughmaconnell, IFA Protest, Elections, Jack McQuillan, Clann na Poblachta, County Councillor, Co-operativeMovement, Athlone Show, Feis, Missions, Black and Tans.

James Dockery, 2006

Billy Donlon, Elphin Street, Strokestown

James Dockery, 2007

James Flanagan, Castleplunket

Garage Business, Ra�erty’s, Janie Keane, Carpenter, Tailor, Great Fair of Castleplunket, Great fair of Ballinasloe, Drinking, Sawdust, Selling Calves.

Sean Ra�ery, 2007

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Bill Muldoon, U.S.A

Boston Born, Grandparents Irish, Kiltoom Parish, Carriage Driver, Catholic Church and School, Education, Military Service, Irish Community, 1929 Depression, Prohibition, Liquor Business, Tracing roots in Roscommon, Sligo and Donegal.

Tom Harney, 2011

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Delia and Vince Moran, Portahard, Frenchpark

Biddy Crummy, Douglas Hyde, Wren Boys, Morrisroes, Reilly’s Hotel Frenchpark, Hyde’s Funeral, Lord de Freyne, Land Commission, Fr. Lavin, Una Hyde Sealy, Hyde’s Poetry, Poitín Making, Stations, Cures (ringworm, thrush, whooping cough, colic), Hare and associated superstitions, Bride Doweries, Tinkers, Gypsies, Ambush outside Frenchpark, Moving Bog (1915), RIC, Black and Tans, IRA, �e Truce, Bottleblowers, Cattle Drives.

James Dockery, 2006

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Dan O'Dowd,�e Berries, Athlone

Foncy Conroy, Carrowna-geelaun, Tulsk

Adam (Sonny) Fraser, �omastown, Ballydangan, Athlone

Jim Ganly, Cloonarragh, Roscommon

Albert Siggins, Castlestrange, Athleague

Carnivals in Tulsk, Fairs, Fowl Markets, Missions, Wakes, ESB, Tulsk Livestock Mart, Strike, Tulsk Macra Hall, Handball Alley.

Christian Brothers, Postulator, Juniorate, Novitiate, St. Edwards College Liverpool, Butler Act, Burnham Scale, Vow of Perseverance, Confession of the Faults, Christian Brothers School Roscommon, St. Paul’s College Raheny.

Sawmill, Making Horse Carts, Big Mill Wheel at Moore Mill,�rashing, House Building, Clock and Watch Repair, Saw Sharpening, Photography,Development from Glass Plates, Dark Room.

Lecture entitled ‘�e Burning of Knockcroghery' given to the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society: Creggan, Cromwell, Cnoc na Croiche, Captain Cullo O’Kelly, Bishop Synge Census, Clay-Pipe Making, War of Independence, RIC, Black and Tans, Auxiliaries, AD RIC, General Lambert, Compensation, Moydrum Castle, Dúidín scrapers, Seán MacEoin.

Lecture given to the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society: Luck, Superstitions about House Building, Fairies, Fairy Paths, Choosing House Site, Michaelmas, Lucky Days for Moving House, Superstitions about Domestic Fire, House Leek, Lucky Horseshoes, Animal and Human Diseases, the Bad Eye, Congested Districts Board (CDB), Curses.

James Dockery, 2012

James Dockery, 2011

John O'Shea, 1989

James Dockery, 2012

James Dockery, 2010

Travelling Shop, Donnelly's in Kiltoom, Deliver Telegrams, Weighing and Packing, Buying Eggs, Parra�n Oil, Money from America, Barrels of Herrings, Flour Bags, �e Christmas box, Kiltoom Church of Ireland, Pitch and toss, Newpark, �e Land Commission, Poaching, Gamekeeper, Ghosts.

084 Tommy Morris,Newpark, Kiltoom, Athlone

James Dockery, 2012

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Jimmy Browne,Castleteehan, Castlerea

Congested Districts Board (CDB), Land Division, New House, Teehans, Glovers, Southpark House, Evictions, Land Commission, the Ashbourne Act.

Manus Tiernan, 1983

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Lecture given to the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society on 'Trades in the Parish of Fuerty found on the Synge Census of 1749': Synge Census, Fuerty, Hearth Money, Mixed Marriages, Names of Wives, Rock�eld Mill, Early Christian Slabs, Cootes of Bally�n, John Hamilton Sieve Maker, Tannery, Rams for Service, Flax Preparation, Killing a Pig.

James Dockery, 2011

086

John Flannery, Faulty, Oldtown, Athlone

Féis in Taughmaconnell, Running Bare Footed, Sports Meetings under National Athletic & Cycling Association (NACA) Rules, Flapper Meeting, Father Ryan in Garbally, Moore Athletic Club, All Ireland Junior Cross Country in Ballydangan, Training, �e Dublin Marathon, Faulty House, Mobile Stallion, Prime of Life (Stallion), John Mathers (Moore), Cattle Drive in 1916, Land Comission, Faulty House, Haunted Houses, Rabbit Hunting, Pigeon Shooting, Moore GAA Club, FCA Training.

James Dockery, 2012

087

Island Parish, Canon Richard Horan, Bishop Joseph Cassidy, Charlestown, Achonry, Clonfert, Garbally College, Archbishop of Tuam, Nicknames, Seal of the Confession, Mother Teresa, Her Visit to Knock Shrine, Relationship between the Priest and the Sick and Dying, Coming to the Scene of aFatal Tra�c Accident at Cloughjordan, Vatican II, Priest Facing the People at Mass, Monsignor Tom Ryan, Pope John the XXIII.

088

Séamus Cleary, Knockroe, Castlerea

Egg Merchant, Egg Tester, Timber Cases, Exporting Eggs, 120 per 100 Eggs, Petrol Coupons, Egg Inspector, Grocery & Hardware Shop, Credit, Travelling Shop, Furniture Auctions.

Colm Daly, 2012

089

Bishop Joseph Cassidy, Parochial House, Moore

John O'Shea, 1996

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Frankie Tarpey,Ash�eld, Boyle

Tawneytaskin, War years, Carnival, Army in Boyle, Workhouse, Handball,Football, Ploughing Championship, Picture house, Travelling shows, Bottled Guinness, Bar Trade, Bona Fide, Travel Agent, Fleadhs.

Tony Conboy, 2013

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Tom Gri�n,�e Lodge, Convent Road, Ballaghaderreen

Bakeries, Du�s Ballaghadereen, Mc Nichols Kiltimagh, Boyle, Bread Making,Ovens, Flour, World War 1, Yeast , Sacks, Batch Bread, Mixers, Tins, Jute Bags, Linen Bags, Bracks, Sugar Factories, Chester Cake, Horse-drawn Van, Timber Troughs, Electric Mixer, Fairs, Tolls, Markets, Flax, Electricity.

James Dockery, 2013

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Jimmy Murray, Knockcroghery

Dan O'Rourke, John Fahy, Hessions Field, �e Split, County Colours, Collective Training , Refereeing, the Convent Field, Central Council, Polo Grounds, Football Stories, County Board President.

�omas Mullaney, 1997

092

Jimmy, who was 80 years old at the time, reminisces on his life in the GAA. Among the topics he discusses are Dan O’Rourke, John Fahy, the County Colours, Collective Training, Refereeing, Central Council, Polo Grounds, Friendships and his time as County Board President.

093

Pat Vaughan, Boston, U.S.A. & Cloonsuck, Cloonboni�e, Castlerea

In 1991 when Pat Vaughan made his 57th visit back to Ireland from Boston, he was the last surviving member of the 1st Battalion South Roscommon Brigade IRA. �ey visited local sites associated with the struggle for independence. Pat recalls his part in that struggle and the shooting dead by CrownForces of his brother Captain John Vaughan along with Ned Shannon at Cloonsuck on January 22nd 1921.

Interviewer: John Costello, Recorder: Sean Browne, 1991

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Jimmy Murray, Knockcroghery

Interviewer: �omas Mullaney, Recorded by: Sean Browne, 1997

John Costello, Knockroe, Castlerea

Oration at the graveside of John Costello Knockroe, Castlerea Co. Roscommon, April 1992, by Seán Doherty: How John came to Castlerea in 1956 as a psychiatric nurse. Profound desire to care for his patients. Love of hurling, music, history, people and family. Contribution to Local Government and the Health Committee.

Orator: Sean Doherty, Recorder: Sean Browne, 1992

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�reshing in Ballintubber

Annie Kearney recalls threshing with �ails and the �rst threshing machine in Killerr. �e other people helping include Con Kearney, Tommy Feeney, Tommy Grady,Tom Hussey, Charley Satchwell, Donal Eivers, Jimmy Cooney, David Hussey, Pat Shaughnessy, Patsy Cooney, Peggy Kearney and Kathleen Leonard.

Interviewed by: Sean Browne andPeggy Kearney, Recorded by: Sean Browne, 1989

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Last survivor the Moor Coy. 1st Battalion South Roscommon Brigade of the old IRA to be buried in Irish soil. Following the Treaty Tom like many of his comrades decided to follow constitutional means to achieve their aims. �ey lived and worked for Ireland. Tom Satchwell was proud of the new Ireland. He was loyal to his country, his community and his family.

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Andy Treacy, Frenchlawn, Ballintubber

Andy takes Sean to local sites of interest: �e site of the mill established by hisancestors who were millers from Kildare, Frenchlawn level crossing where a train was derailed on Good Friday night 1901. In February 1949 a girl was killed by a train in the same place. �ey visit the Suck Bridge built in1895, an old Kiln used for drying oats and the remains of “�e Hut”. �e hut was built for the RIC to protect William Glover during the ranch war. �ey call on Jack Shaughnessy in his home in Killerr where the talk covers cattle drives and the four women plus baby that served a months jail sentence in Castlebar, the Black and Tans & the Civil War.

Interviewed by: Sean Browne, Recorded by: Sean Browne, 1989

098

Funeral of Tom Satchwell, Cloonbard, Kilmurray, Castlerea

Orator: John Costello, Recorder: Sean Brown, 1989

Dr. Patrick Hillery President of Ireland visited Castlerea to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the instillation of Dr. Douglas Hyde as �rst President of Ireland. He visited Longford House, birthplace of Dr. Hyde and Holy Trinity Church of Ireland to view the font where Dr. Hyde was baptised.Among those present were: Brian Mullooly (Chairman Roscommon County Council), Donal Connolly (Roscommon County Manager), Val Kelly, Kathleen Kelly, Rev Canon D.W. Greham, Castlerea Girl Guides, Castlerea Boy Scouts. Other PublicRepresentatives included Terry Leyden, Sean Doherty and John Connor.

099 Presidential visit toCastlerea


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�e last Lecarrow Quarry Train

Lecarrow Quarry closed on May 28th 1988. It was the main supplier of stone for ballast on the railway network. A spur o� the main railway line from Dublin to Westport, near Knockcroghery, was used for access to a hopper system. �is �lm records the arrival, loading and departure of the last train. Of particular interest are the safety measures used with the “Reversing of the Train”, the use of the “Sta�” in the subsidiary hut and the use of the phone line. Also we get a glimpse of some of the quarry machinery.


100

Paddy speaks about Castlerea, First World War, Connaught Rangers, IRA, Civil War, Free State, Irregulars, Church Rd., New Line, Hanly Hall, Connolly Brothers, Railway Station, Achill Train, Football, Working in England and Scotland, Second World War, Sanatorium, T.B., Paddy's parents, Psyche Hanly, Fr. Mullaney, Blueshirts, Bella Hall, 1943 All Ireland, Dan O’Rourke, Castlerea Celtic, John L. Browne, John Murphy, Fife and Drum Bands, Economic War, Roscommon Jerseys, Soccer Team of 1940s, Castlerea, Minors, Tarmon Juniors, Danny Burke, Micky Egan, Kilteevan.

101

Jane Flemming, Creggaslin, Castlerea

Jane who was 88 at the time recalls some of her life and times in Treen. She remembers meeting her husband John Dominick andhaving a double wedding with no honeymoon. She remembers attending the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin. She tells of the legend of how Creggaslin (rock of the little ass) got its name.


Paddy Downes, Castlerea

Interviewed by: Paul Healy, Recorded by: Sean Browne, 2007

�e Last Guinness Train

In July 2006 Guinness decided, a�er 147 years of using the railway to transport stout to the west of Ireland, it was switching to road transport. �e train we see in the �lm is the last train with empty kegs returning to Dublin. Also, James Colleran gives us a demonstration of how to light the oil lamp and how to adjust the tension on the signal cable.


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1916:2016

AUDIO/VIDEO

Ms Margaret Coll emigrated from Cloonbonni�e to the USA with only a national school education. She studied in the U.S. and became a New York state nurse. She worked in hospitals and private practice in New York. She made many visits back home to Cloonbonni�e, one of which coincided with the War of Independence.She remained for some time and tended many a Volunteer including Sean Bergin who was seriously ill with pleurisy and pneumonia prior to him being shot in Loughglynn. She returned to the U.S. a�er the war. She later married Dominick Mulrennan and lived in Cloonsuck. Her life was an inspiration to all who knew her.

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Anthony Doolan, �orn�eld, Lisnamult, Roscommon

Employment Opportunities, Old County Home Buildings, Porter’s O�ce, Nurse’s Home, Convent, Dr. Donal Keenan, School Children, Unmarried Mothers, Laundry, Television, Dining, Chaplains, Admissions, Suppliers, Funerals, New Building.

James Dockery, 2014

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Funeral of Mrs Margaret Mulrennan nee Coll, Cloonsuck, Castlerea

Recorded by: Sean Browne, Prayers by: Fr. McDonagh, Oration by: Micheál O’Callaghan, 1986

Seamus Butler, Boher, Carrick-on-Shannon

Lime Industry in Boher, Roach Lime, Lime Kiln Restored, Boher, Schools, Plunkett’s, Tumna Gold Balls, Fertility Stone, St. Eadaoin.

Christy Kellegher,2013

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School Clonown, Lights on the Bog, Hedge School, �omas Egan the Philosopher, Fr Paddy Shine, War Years, Seed Potatoes, Carrots, Turf, Football in Clonown, Fr Ned Hughes, Volunteers, Ambush in Cornafulla (Tormey), Black and Tans, Funerals, Fianna Fail, De Valera and Political meetings, RIC Barracks, Sheebeen, Cunny Bridge.

Pat Hynes, Oldtown, Clonown, Athlone

Michael and Rosaleen Fallon, 2005


James Dockery, 2012

Lecture given to the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society: Luck, the Evil Eye, Blue, Overlooker, P J Gaynor, Cures, Cassidy’s, Flaxen �read, Jimmy Leddy, Red Flannel, Praising, Holy Water, Prayer.

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RECORDING TOPICS

1916:2016

AUDIO/VIDEO

Strokestown Park House, �e Troubles, Olive Mahon, Major Hales, Football Field, Land Commission, Tommy Massey the Butler, Show Committee, Croquet, �e Emergency, Scramogue Ambush, Cloonfree School, Josie Kelly, Ms Carlos Bawn Street, Dr Dan Kelly.

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John Fallon, �e Square, Strokestown

James Dockery, 2013

James Dockery, 2013

Bridget Lane, “Judeanne”, Four Roads, Roscommon

Noel Molloy, 2007

Noel Molloy, 2009

Fuerty, Master Frawley, Fuerty National School, Benny Lane, Work Permits in Belfast, German Bombs, Builder/Stonemason, Fr. Flanagan of Boystown, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Dr. Harrington, John McCormack

John Kerrigan, Circular Road, Roscommon

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Connaught Rangers, John Harlow, Battle of Ypres, Dunkirk, Peninsular War, Brian Ború March, Henry Street, �e Troubles, Connaught Rangers Mutiny, Captain Cro�on, �e Maddens, Trapping Gold�nches, Johnny Sammon, Francis Ledwidge Poet.

Joseph Ennis, Capalisheen, Kiltoom, Athlone

Ballybay School, Master Shine, Corporal Punishment, Fr. Hardigan, Scholarships, Christian Brothers, Frank Eivers, Ballygar Co�n Making, Funerals, McCauley Foundry, Half-Barrel Caravans, Wave Stones, Fr. Hughes, Weasel Stone, Rabbits

Pat Harrington, Mullendu�, Mantua, Castlerea

�e Big Blizzard, Light and Heat, Fairs, �e Ecomomic War, Black and Tans, Big Houses, De Valera, Politics, School Days in Mantua, Shops and Families around Ballingare & Cart Making.

Sean Ra�ery with Fintan Bruen, 2012

Sean Ra�ery with Fintan Bruen, 2012

Tommy Connor, Ballingar, Castlerea

Ballingare Horse Fair, Foootball, Finnerty's, Making Cloth, Carpenters, Saw Mill, District Nurse, First Cars in the area, Landless Holdings, Walking Animals Home from Fairs.

St. Patricks Hospital, Castlerea

Interviewer: John McLoughlin, Recorder: Sean Browne, 1994

Opened in 1940, this hospital operated as a district mental hospital and intermittently as a TB sanatorium until it closed in 1994. �is video recalls the story of the hospital and those who worked there.

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1916:2016

AUDIO/VIDEO

Lecture on 'Hairballs' given to the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society: Hair Balls, National Museum in Dublin, Cork Public Museum, Kerry County Museum, Sliotar, Gutta-percha, Brehon Laws, Hurling, Standardization of Sliotárs, Fishing Line from Horse Hair, Museum Displays, May Day Balls, Monaghan Saddlery Collection, GAA Ban on Foreign Games andEntertainments, Dr. Douglas Hyde.

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James Dockery, 2013

James Dockery, 2015

James Dockery, 2015

Jim Ganly, Cloonarragh, Roscommon

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Talk to the Dr John Harrison Bicentennial Conference: Napoleonic Wars, Mendicants, County Roscommon Workhouses, Board of Guardians, Dr. Conry, Design of Workhouse Buildings, Diet, Clothing, Work, Bedlam, Cost of Upkeep, Chapel, Fever Hospital, Memorial Garden, Bully's Acre, Workhouse Records, Dr. John Harrison, Harrison Memorial Hall.

Julian Harrison, Australia

Talk to the Dr. John Harrison Bicentennial Conference about the Life and Career of Dr. John Harrison 1815-1890: Catholic Doctor and Surgeon, Testimonial Dinner &Gi�, Memorial Committee, Harrison Hall, Grave, Australia, Gold Rush, Newspaper Articles, Famine, Roscommon Workhouse, Fever Hospital, Greyhounds, Racehorses, Potions, Website.

William Gacquin, Whitepark, Curraghboy, Athlone

Talk entitled “Tobacco, Clay and Pipes - A Rural Industry" at the Claypipe Visitor Centre Knockcroghery: Clay Pipes, Wakes, Tobacco, Annual Plant, Nicotiana Tabacum, Sir Walter Raleigh, Clay Pipes, Pipe Smoker's Cancer, 1641 Depositions, Murder, Accounts, Synge Census, Knockcroghery, Use of Clay, Tobacco Spinner, Car Men, Sources of Clay, Kilns, Pipe Production, Customs, Wakes, Family Buisness, Black and Tans Attack on Knockcroghery, Claims, Fairs, Tolls, GrowingTobacco, Pipe Production Process.

James Dockery, 2015

120 Philomena and Eamonn O'Connell, Curryroe, Drum, Athlone

John O'Shea, 1990

Glendeer Animal Farm, Milk Quota, Deer, Bord Fáilte, Deer Wire, Una Bhan, Brochure, Birds, Animals, Old Cottage.

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RECORDING TOPICS

1916:2016

AUDIO/VIDEO

Lecture "William Wilde: 1815 to 1876Folklorist and Author" by Dr. Michael Ryan,at Castlerea Library: �omas Wilde, Emily Finn, Diocesan College Elphin, Irish Popular Superstitions, Fr. Prendergast, Medical Studies, Voyage, Travels, Medical Research, Royal Irish Academy, Ordnance Survey, George Petrie, Archaeology, Speranza, 1851 Census, Mary Travers, Libel Trial, Family Loss, Lectures, Politics, Funeral, Elegy.

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Dr. Michael Ryan, Dublin

James Dockery, 2014

Marian Harlow, 2016

James Dockery, 2015

Oliver McGuinness, Roscommon

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Talk to Dr. John Harrison Bicentennial Conference at Roscommon County Library 'Medicine and Pharmacy in the 19th Century: Association of Remedies in the Pharmacy with Dr. John Harrison, Famine, Diseases, Stomach Pills, Pharmacy Practice, Drugs, Harrison's Pills, Formula's, Pioneers of Modern Medicine.

Fr. Raymond Browne,Parochial HouseFour Mile House

Muintir na Tire, Canon Hayes, Fr. McDyer of Glencolmcille, Drumboylan, Agricultural Institute Test Farm, Social Welfare Provision, Vegetable Growing, Muintir na Tire Chairman, �e United Nations Connection, Rural Electri�cation, National Work Camp Trinity Island, Honorary Degree NUIG.

May & Sean Moran,Crossna,Boyle

Paddy Moran of Crossna, Early Life, Countermanding Order, Easter Rising,Imprisonment, Bloody Sunday Events, Arrest & Trial, Execution, Impact on Family, Bea Farrell, State Funeral 2001, Keadue Ambush, Other Local Killings, 1960s Commemorations.

Mary O’Connell, 2016

125 Leo Corrigan,New York & Kiltibanks,Ballaghaderreen

Margaret Garvey, 2015

School, Apprenticeship, Johnny Madden, Wheelwrights, Making Carts,Working in England, Dances, Travel to America, Luxury Ship, Working in America, �e Catskills, Community

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RECORDING TOPICS

1916:2016

AUDIO/VIDEO

Grandparents, Family, Jobs Around the House, �e Black and Tans, IRA, RIC, Ration Books, Emigration, IRA Kidnap, �e Banshee, School, Games, Halloween, Christmas, Wrenboys, Bon�res, House Dances, Maypole Dances, Card Playing, Electricity, �e Dispensary; Register Births, Deaths & Marriages.

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Mae Cunni�e, Fort�eld House, Cappalisheen, Kiltoom

Diane Dunnigan, 2002

Mary O’ Connell, 2016also present John Mo�att

Noel Molloy, 2007

Diane Dunnigan, U.S.A

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San Francisco, Irish Community, Social Clubs,Army Corp of Engineers, Genealogy, NUI Maynooth, Maggie Brennan, Land Commission, Fairs, Returned Yank, Community Spirit, RIC, �e American Letter, �e American Wake, Sailing as a Single young Woman, Ellis Island, A Kitchen Racket, How to Keep House.

Elizabeth Mo�att, Moyoran, Leitrim PO, Carrick-on- Shannon

Growing up in Gowel, Co. Leitrim; Woman’s Work – Farm & House, Sheemore Ambush, Black and Tans, Married Life for Farmer’s Wife in 1950s, School Trip to Kilmainham Gaol 1966, Selton Hill, Mong Hill, WW2 Rationing, Christmas Shop, School Days, Cures.

Tarmon Commemorates the War of Independence

Commemoration of �e War of Independence at Tarmon, Castlerea.

Talk by: Gerard O’Rourke, Recorded by: Sean Browne, 2016

Get Involved!If you would like to get involved in collecting folklore and oral history in the county, please contact the Roscommon County Council Heritage Officer and we will add you to the County Roscommon Folklore and Oral History mailing list. We operate on a ‘buddy’ system, and we will set you up with an experienced member of the network who will help you through your first interview through to getting your interview uploaded to the collection. Indeed, if you have a story which you feel should be recorded, please also contact the Roscommon County Council Heritage Officer:

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The County Roscommon Folklore and Oral History Collection would be nowhere without the kind co-operation of the interviewees who welcomed the interviewers into their homes and who chatted to them and shared their stories with great generosity, sincere thanks to you all and to your families. We remember those in our collection who have since passed away ‘Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anam’.

Thanks to all the members of the County Roscommon Folklore and Oral History Network who put countless hours of their time and effort researching, interview-ing, transcribing and of course sharing a few yarns of their own!

Thanks to Anne Ridge, who got the ball rolling with her expert training back in 2005/2006. Anne has kept a close eye on the network ever since and has always helped, advised and given generously of her time and expertise.

Thanks to Roscommon County Council Library staff and Heritage Officer for their support, time and assistance with this project over the years.

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