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local and visiting societies in search of

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and ancient monuments .

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AfilVIAGH MISCELLA.l~EA

VOL.XVII Pages.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

1-44 in the Annals

Fuaid

to Sliabh References the Four Masters.

nt y

of to wnlands.

ou n

ag h

59-63

ag h

18th and

Survey Maps of 1835-

The Fews in 1651.

Ar m

in the

The Fews in 1655.

50-56

57-58

Ar m ©

names.

of the district.

Map Sheets

64-65 66

in 1655.

Ar m

The Lands of Ballymacone

Tax Abstr a ct of 1660.

Poll

Tax of 1660.

Poll

in 1729-1730.

Ballymacowen

Charle mont Rental '

47-49

of townland

Vari a tions of spellings 19th ce nturies.

Ordnance

in the

of spelling

Sub-denominations

45-46

Place names and their meaning of Ballemacoan. Territory Variations

and the

of Ba llymacone

Territory

The Ancient l\ cCones.

Rentals

and Freeholders

Blayeberry Harvest Notes

of 1752-1764. Lists.

of festivals

74-86

Sundays.

Homes.

87-92

kept

in Ballymacone.

93-109

Afil•IA.GHr11ISCSLLAHEA

VOL.XVII Pages Folktales

from the townl ands .

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

and the Bull.

~.ntiquities

in the

ag h

Ar m

Ar m ©

ag h m

of Ballymacone

ty pes in Co. Armagh .

ou n

C h ag Ar ©

territory

nt y

Hous in g and house

Ar m

127 - 133

St . Patrick

110-1 26

134-139 140

The Territory

associations

of Ballymacone and its the McCones,

t . °::i. C .<7~~ Introg.uctory

lii1b.

River,

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m t C © se y a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

the Ballymacone

the annual 11Bilberry ago when investigating on Carrigatuke 1 , a hill in Armaghbrague Sundayu gathering

nt y

Some years

doing so I accumulated

whetted townland

Ar m

Its

of the McCone's.

was still

25.

for the

I was continually

tried

to find

a subject

to throw any light

should masquerade

My curiosity

and

river,

was, however,

origin

why the stream

when I found that

1 •o.s. Sheet

must be shelved

nature

knowledge failed

to wonder

to folk

relating

the district

ag h

for the name.

town or lands

on the banks of the Ballymacone

myself

upon which local was left

on foot.

that

- matter

being - of a somewhat inquisitive reason

countryside

a mass of material

through

In my journeys finding

me to

ag h

Ar m

custom and tradition present.

compelled

ou n

much of the surrounding

explore

my quest

of 1,024 feet,

to a height

rising

so I

as the

was even more

in Tanderagee Mill 2 • It then became

an old corn-mill

known as Ballymacone

2 ·The corn mill is of some antiquity, being in use at least as See Appendix IV. A scutch mill was later early as 1703. survive but are now chiefly farm Both buildings erected. the erection ascribes Local ~radition storage accommodation. 11 Bella McCone" from whom the river of the mill to a mythical is also said to take its name1

-2-

to try

of the river

and solve

consideration

the Inquisitions,

they might produce

as a hidden

sub-denomination

once held

learned

Ar m

that

time out of mind possessed

the~

the lands

authorities

Having proceeded

the northern

prov.ed unproductive

towns of

Tullibroane Toynregy Fernaghleshalge Armaghbregagh

to the Archbishop

so far I thought

maps .of that

taken at Armagh on August 12,

of the eight

in Fues barony at a rent

lands_._

the Sept of ClanmcCone had been

Lisnedull Lisleagh Tullynegyn Corran

index for

that

ag h

Ar m

examined an Inquisition

1609, and therein

Plantation

and that

by various

The McCone's ' s, and their

Ar © I first

described

the fact

of Ballymacone.

region

ag h

Ar m

formed a definite

town or

for a townland

disclosed

of over 6,000 acres

ou n

a tract

quickly

the missing

or alias

My researches

the territory

the connection

of the problem induced me to study

in the hope that

the area. ~

channels

maps and other . documents of the Plantation

nt y

lands

other

with the surname.

Further

period

through

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

necessary

advisable

to consult

year as they form our earliest

counties.

7. James I.

the

to,mland

The General Map of Ulster

but the County Baronial

3. Cal. Pat. Rolls

of £1 per annum3 .

Sheets under Fues

-3townlands

the above eight

portrayed

jurymen in the preceding

year named

as BallymacOwen and gave the additional

info~mation

certain

challenged

the Archbishop

that

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m t C © se y a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

native

made by thirteen the lands

ou n

ag h

identification.

Ar m

information,

in the Fews there

but Carrigatuke

exact position

Space will

of references.

manuscripts

as narrations

times as the location

familiar

great

places,

highways of Ireland,

great

road from Tara to Emania

Ar m

the ancient

detail

which ran one of the three

in the barony

situate

noted in early

Fu.aid, one of the three

Ar m

of Upper Fews, a district

through

the group of townlands

are all

The town.lands in question

of Sliabh

another

whilst

nt y

of the same date designated as BallymacKowen 5 •

record

the

rents

chief

of which the jury knew notu4,

certainty

within

of Balle McOmem. A presentment

barony under the title

that

unit

as a separate

As to Sliabh

is little

Fuaid 1 s

definite

seems the most probable

not permit

They first

an examination

appear in our oldest

of legendary

events

that

even then

4 •Vol. E.3.13 and No.582 Trinity College Library, Dublin. Survey of the County of Armagh taken at the Moyrey Castle August 2, 1608. A note dated August 3, 1605, in the writing of Archbishop Henry Ussher and preserved in Old Rent Rolls, that Public Library, Armagh, asserts Archbishop's Registry, the division of the county into baronies took place in that Patrick McCalo McArdell was then Constable of the year. Fews and BallymacOwen appears as eight unnamed towns. 5•Rawlison M.S. No.237. Bodleian Library, Oxford - see No.3, September, 1931, p. 2160 Annalecta Hibernica,

were long past.

there

made it more or less

that

traditions

of past

nt y

We have no data,

Scannel

ag h

Archbishop

Ar m

and one of the chief rent

Sweteman, and in an undated

being the earliest Ballymacone.

stretching

to within

part

attend

to their

separated

that

or lands

the territory

from Lisnadill,

about 2½ miles

of the territory

south of Armagh1 of

of the modern village

and up to the late

eighteenth

was a long

of land comprising

religious

l0/-,

~cL

century

formed

of Armagh.

Tenants

on the

must have found it

difficult

parish

devotions

them from the ancient

they worshipped

of about the same year

I have I\ of the territory

of the old and very large

southern

of Archbishop

tenants

about the same distance

Newtownhamilton, part

list

The tract strip

account

the Franciscan

who erected

land of McComgam- rent

to the

Ar m

is a reference

there

In 1367 a Macomgan emerges as a

year.

ag h

citizen

principal

5, 1264,

on February

-Abbey of Armagh in that

Macuymn and

is shown in a document perfected

Macomgan.

towns

I have

notice

The first

to a Patricio

refers

Ar m

Gillachomded

ou n

fonnd of the name locally

ground.

sacred

as to when the above eight

however,

of the McCone's.

became the property

some veneration

choice,

its

from its . situation?for

apart

reason

was some specific

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C se ag ou M um h n us ty C eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Annals and compel one to suppose that

occur in the

Such meetings

and conferences.

assemblies

battles,

spot - famous as a place

was a most important

and show that

to the present

down the centuries

They continue

city

owing to the distance and its

churches.

in a church on one of the nearby

that Probably

Granges of the

-5and St. Paul.

Abbey of St. Peter

in Elizabeth

but made subI9,ission and were pardoned

s reign,

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Morris McCowane, Yeoman ) James Oge McCowane, Yeoman) Rorie Mccowan, Husbandman) Torligh McCowane, Yeoman ) ) Shane McCowane, Yeoman

nt y

All of Fewes Barony

as tenant

rentals

carry out that

took place.

Ar m

on July 31, 1609, and rested

two days.

there

Ar m

stormy and wet so when they reached

decided to encamp.

within there

the rest

of Armagh.

four miles

The day was

uthe midst of the Fewsu they

The first

tents

their

of the Fews and pitched

of Ballemacone

territory

From Dundalk they

Next morning (August 4) they arose and

passed through

appointed

way from Dublin

for Armagh on the morning of August 3.

set forth

The Commissioners

in Dundalk on their

arrived

task

ag h

and Scotch settlers

with English ·

of Ulster

the Plantation

afterwards

ag h

Immediately

in 1615-1624.

of a house in the city

Ar m

ou n

later

in .the Archbishop's

in Armagh and appears

settled

Torligh

by ·

dated June 24, 1602.

from the Lord Deputy,

warrant

in rebellion

members of the Sept were involved

The following

camp was probably

within

south of the

but the second one was undoubtedly

and was a rather

notable

resting

place

for they remained

from the evening of August 4 to the morning of August 6, on

which day they passed into

the city

to begin the work of the

Commission, a task not completed until enc amped outside inte rviewed

the city

surveyors

August 13.

\fuilst

they heard the claims of the Archbishop,

and obtained

many facts

from the

-6that

of the county,

inhabitants

were of help

followed.

days that

the controversy

and sept lands make that

nt y

ag h

Ar m

(with two exceptions)

findings

the Commissioners septs

was selected

or families

The jury was as follows:-

Marmaduke Whitechurch, Esq. Sir Tirlagh O Neale, Knt. Carberie Mccann Donagh Morchie Tirlagh Mciteggart Fleminge Christopher Con O Neale Hugh McBrien Mccan Donell McHenry O Neale Neale McCoddane Donnell Mccann Unfortunately

The

Sir Oliver St. John Sir Garrett Moore Sir John Davies William Parsons (SurveyorGeneral)

from the chief

Ar m

the county.

lands.

were:-

appointed . to assist

The jury

present

Arthur Chichester Archbishop of Armagh Archbishop of Dublin Thomas Ridgeway Humphrey Winche

Ar m

Sir The The Sir Sir

of their

of the county

Commissioners

ou n

and as a guide to the location

and the

Inquisition

families

as a clue to the old Irish

invaluable

between the lands

Crown and the Church as to termon and herenagh as to septs

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

It was held to decide

August 12.

of the week took place

meeting

The most consequential

findings

the busy

during

the jurors

revealed

and gave detailed sep ts were the -

Calvagh McDonnell Redmond O Hanlon Owen Boy McMurcho Neale O Calligan Hugh McHenry O Neale Patrick Oge O Conrie Cormack McTirlagh Braslowe 0 Neale Bartholomew Owen Hugh Mciteggart Tirlagh O Cassaye Nice O Quin

did not include

a McCone, but their

the names of most of the septs particulars

as to their

lands.

of the county The then

-7s

Kenny 1 s 0 Quin' s Macawan's 0 Casadie 1 s McGillwory 1 s Murtagh's Montercor•s 0 Hanlon' s Connoghon 1 s

Mcowen' s Doogane 1 s 0 Moyer's McGillivora 1 s Rathe's McLaughlin's Clonawe's Shane I s Cullan 1 s

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

McGillechrany McCoddan 1 s 0 Mellane 1 s Coffey's . 0 Falligan 1 s O Donell 1 s MacCasey 1 s McRorie 1 s McGillemurris McTaggart•s

other

ou n

names so that

Christian

Ar m

comprehensive

ag h

Ar m

McMurphy had intruded Tullybrone, was

Rental

Lissadell

property MacCowan

for 1615 gives

and shows that

on the territory

into

Tonregie Tullinegan

Ferneshalge Armaghbregre Tulbrone

The Archbishop's

Ballymcowenu

of:-

It then consisted

Lislea Lisnedolly Ballycorran

Archbishop

to Christopher,

in Fues Barony was granted

tenants

of the

census of the old population

25, 1614-15, the territory

On February

Armagh.

of the same period,

stood in the days of James I.

eounty as it

of pardons

ag h

fairly

the document becomes, when taken in

with the lists

conjunction

families

by their

the heads of whom are distinguished

and clans,

nt y

who with the Sept of ClanmcCoane and various

three

and Corran.

a list

of the

Owen and Patrick

town.lands therein,

The remainder,

however,

and held as nnder -

by Maurice and Patrick McCoan Lisleagh and Tullanecran Aghernamuckla and Cavencrow by James and Shane McCoan Armaghbreag and Tanderagee by Patrick and Maha McCoan

-8-

and so many days work each year "with man and

hogs, hens, 11

see Appendix I.

slight

contains

in the spelling

variations

reveals

nt y

of the names of the town.lands but otherwise

features.

ou n

ag h

three

giving

Ar m

of spellings

Ballymacone

for the

O.,.C,crn..'2_

of Ba.1 l@fiL9 eovan it gives in the

town.lands of the territory

of each of the eighttownlands,

the sub-denomination

list

sets

separate

ag h

for besides

final

- see Appendix II -

however, much more informative

1633, is,

on September 9,

of Armagh and ta~en in the city

Ar m

Archbishop

no new

to the lands of James

relating

A Chancery Inquisition

of the territory

grant

had a further

The Archbishop July 3, 1620.

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

garran

of oxen, mutton,

for herriotts

were liable

rents

besides

and

from the Archbishop

then held direct

All the tenants

Ar m

one of which was Menemacowan in Armaghbrague. of Fprfeited

Lands returned

by the

shewing whose they were in Anno 1641 and to whom

now set outn there Armaghbreg Coranmore Lessleagh

is the following

Down Survey,

In the nDistribution

summary of the lands Tonregee Tullynegonie

Fernainucklagh Tollebrone Lisnadell

and the Commonsof Ballymacowen, surveY, made in 1655, depict

The maps of the above

the Commonsas 481 acres

of coarse

the place-name as Ballymacowane. \ In the 16th and 17th centuries it was usual for the

mountain pasture

and render

sowing their

pe ople in the lowlands

after

mig rat e to the uplands

with their

families

crops in spring and cattle,

living

-9in temporary

to their

during

homes at the beginning

in the crops. not fenced

in.

p.e~~

to send his

cattle

being usually

In regulating

equivalent

ag h

Ar m

in other

the total

the cow being

ou n

C ag

a man to turn

out the exact

animals

ag h

Ar m

to the

sept

the number he was

within

to the size

on such lands

taken

did not exceed the amount of his

townlands

and

animals

as one unit

which

number of cows or the

so long as

privilege.

and was probably

in the Senchus Mor. 6 The Poll Tax of 1660 unfortunately

for four

by all

in any way he pleased

custom was known as booleying

noticed

on it,

the grazings

were the classification,

belonging

in proportion

nt y

farmi.

was grazed

Each head of a family

to graze

enabled

of the autumn in time to gather

entitled

the summer and returning

The communal pasturage

had the right

his

settlements

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

there

The

ancient

only gives

as it

particulars

the territory:-

Ardmaghbeg, inhabited by 16 Irish. Tonrige, inhabited by 10 Irish. Tollenagin, inhabited by 5 Irish. Lisnadell, inhabited by 10 Irish and 10 English. Just

why the other

four townlands It

somewhat puzzling. have been without

should have been omitted

does not seem possible

inhabitants.

names and their

there

were then 10 0 Cou.nes in Upper Fews.

number is given under each barony

Academy Library.

Census of 1659.

they could

A survey of the principal

Irish

6. Royal Irish

that

Known also

and

-10The Hearth Money Rolls

completeness

lack

who paid the tax - but

townlands7

in the relevant

of the people they also

for the year 1664 give the names

- there Irish

is no mention of Tullybrone -. Ralph and Clement

excepting

were all

Read of Lisnadill.

No McCone's are mentioned

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

The then inhabitants

d~ members of the filan

nt y

proof that

About that

McCone territory.

ou n

By then they had spread into marry

townlands

in tne Upper Fews and indeed

ag h

Corhanmock

Ar m

Shane McKeone Cormick McKeone

Owen McKeone Rory McKeone Patt. McKeone

Ar m

Lower Fews also

Cavankill

Bellek

outleckan

Donagh McKeone Toole McKeone

Drumnahunchin

Phelim Boy McKeone Sorley McKeone Carrickgallogly

Art McKeone

Phelim McKeone Toole McKeone

smullan Dunesmullan

Damoily

John McKeone

Rory O Cowan

carrowmannan

Ballylane

Patt. Patt.

Roe McKeone McKeone

Patt

------------------·--------7.

into

indicates

list

ag h

Ar m

as the following

See Appendix III.

the

phonetic

Collector's

rendering

of the surname.

within

time McKeone became a normal

due no doubt to a Hearth

spelling

resident

were still

though there

McKeon

-11In the days before a favourite

haunt

Many stories

are still

told

and fooling

indeed,

and Rapparees

those

the best that

of his

wars the district

Rapparee, audacity

Redmond 0 1 Hanlon. and his

cleverness

who were sent in pursuit

ever graced

the Fews.

nt y

ou n

letter

' Yesterday

Ar m

"Sir

as the following

sometimes indeed

charm

it was a fatal

attraction

_Armagh. July

17, 1697.

such gentry,

of him.

remembered name of any of the Tories

The old road from Armagh to the south had a great for

was

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

His is,

of the celebrated

in evading

the revolutionary

shows

Ar m

ag h

about six o'clock in the afternoon, came into this tov-m.a country fellow stript to his shirt, with an account that Captain MacNally and the rest of the Rapparees that so long infested this road were in a little house within four miles of this place and that they were there asleep. Upon which Captain Macklin and about twelve men of his company and townsmen went out with all expedition and designed to surprise them, but they had a spy at some distance, who ran and gave them notice, and so they got to their horses and made away as fast as they could, but our party so eagerly pursued them, that they soon overtook them. They fired many shots and would not take quarter, but after an hour's chase they killed MacNally and one MacShane and brought in their heads which were presently fixed upon the Sessions House.~ These two were the chiefest of these rogues that robbed fourteen or fifteen persons on Wednesday last, and murdered Captain Groves9 after his being their prisoner for a long time, putting one of their bayonets into his heart and .rowling it in his body till he expired. They drank most of Dr. Drelincourt's wine that was coming hither to treat his friends,." 11. 8. Situat e in Market Street. Replaced on Mall by present Court House in 18090 9. ill iam Groves of Castle Shannaghan Co. Donegal. 10 . The Very Rev. Peter Drelincourt D.b. Dean of Armagh 1691-1722. 11 . Printed Broadsheet Newsletter. Thorpe Collection Vol.XI. "A letter f ro m a gentleman in Armagh to his friend in Dublin, iving an account of the Rapparees that killed Captain Groves and robbed several other persons, with the beheading of the chief of them. Monday,July 19, 16970

-12In 1703 we get another i n Ashe's

glimpse

Survey of the lands

of the ancient

of the Archbishopric.

town.lan ds were then held by named principal built

small farm houses

with barnes, tenants

attached.

Amongst the latter

probability,

nt y

or small tenements

with

cow-houses

class

figure

a most comprehensive

census of the

ag h

later

ag h

Ar m

the tenants

1664 already

Ar m

increase

in numbers.

18th century

and interesting

no doubt,

shows an

was due to

The document is of

census of the inhabitants

two members of

Teige and Hugh McCoen resident

in Farnamuckly.

shows a certain

Torlagh

Bronty in Armagh-brege

ancestor

fathe r of t he famous novelists

of Hugh Brohte,

in so far

who

the grand-

- see Appendix V.

The dis tr i ct would seem to have been still

was concerned .

as revealing

may ha ve been the elusive

Wlsettled

the names

Compared with

mentioned

This,

of waste lands.

as an early

the old Clan, also

amongst the named

thereon.

of t h e district

gave name

of all

importance

all

towns was compiled giving

reclamation

gardens

- see Appendix IV.

the Hearth Money RolJsof

further

and potato

of the eight

and religions

astonishing

and cow-houses.

of tenants,in

ou n

Eleven years

who had

under them, living

they do not at anyrate

in the survey

population

stables

~ a.-ti.d-

Ar m

tenants

were some members of the old G~hat

to the area,

The eight

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

iany of them had cottier "cabins"

territory

as the southern

portion

somewhat

of the territory

In August 1708 the well-known

Dr. Thomas

-13Moleyneux

came north

at Castledillon journey

from Dublin on a visit

near Armagh, from which he continued

to many other friend

LLde signed

places

in the north.

and companion,

Counsellor

for Ardmagh and went sixteen

mostly

on the very wild mountains

this

soil,

ou n

ag h

which in five

two or three

and you enter

or six miles

to Ardmaghu. l3.

they

towards

it,

These mountains

them of a rocky

Donaldson writing

into

brings

Here was miserable

brings

a pleasant

two miles

you to the end enclosed

country

you through new made roads

of the Barony of Upper

of the state

is also a small

grass within

miles

on them at the second

any soldiers.

From there

of the mountains

miles

where there

not so much as tolerable

Ar m

but . without

ag h

of them.

He baited

Black Ditch,

Ar m

house which is called

entertainment

Dundalk

way met but one house and nothing

corn meadows or enclosures.

Foot Barracks

Depping,

the road through

in all

On leaving

on the Fews.

nt y

are of a boggy heathy gravel,

his

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

with his

to his estate

Fews as it was, circa families a picture

settled

1733, when a number of Presbyterian

in some townlands

of the district

thereof,

provides

in the second quarter

us with

of the

12. Son of Samuel Molyneux of Castledillon, Co. Armagh, and brother of William Molyneux the author of 11The Case Of Ireland Stated 11 • Born 1661; created a baronet 1730; died 1733. . 13 . "Journey to ye North 1708", Young•s 1101d Belfast", page 153.

-14eighteenth thickets

century.

He states

in different

places

with heath,

boggale,

that

and wet lands

ruhhes,

portions

tillage

from whence the inhabitants

limited

derived

scanty

nt y

ag h

subsistence.

The old barbarous

to that

period

imposing fines

built

Ar m

of sticks

or hurdles

enclosed

by a bawn, or kind of pound, to protect

invested

Ar m

answered to keep out the wind and rain.

or as it

and property

cattle

the country.

operationsu

period

the district

of a certain

following quarters

caught

(with

alternately,

The whole was

themselves,

and robbers .which then

Charley

was "the

Carragher,

who killed

scene of

kno1,m locally

and robbed until

some of his associates)

being gibbeted

at places

h ad committed "murders and other Thomas Wright,

the antiquarian,

he was

the head and

in the district

atrocious

and hanged,

which he was beheaded and quartered,

a r e to credit

which

Carl More or Big Charley, at last

from thieves

About that

and had two doors or entrances

were closed up with bundles

their

and burning

had made laws

The houses were generally

or clusters

whose numbers were very

ag h

clachons

on the summits being under /

the legislature

ou n

Ar m

upwards of a century upon delinquents.

productions✓

from the corn was not entirely

notwithstanding

abolished

and bogs covered

with horses yoked by the tails

the straw to separate

and

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n us ty C eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

of the lands

custom of ploughing

shrubberies

and othe ·r acquatic

several

their

uextensive

crimes

where he

•

it was "a

-15dismal

country

a house to be seenn 14 when he set

with scarce

out from Dundalk accompanied Ma~ch 31st,

by the Bishop of Raphoe on

1747, on his way from that _to .1im.to Armagho

Had he made the journey

later

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

in the year he would, no doubt,

have had some comments to make upon the magnificent

views

nt y

for which the area is so well known. 1750 survives.

account

states

ag h

Ar m

ag h

collected

Ar m

his

protection,

Ar m

under their

as perilous

and piously friends

on horseback,

through

at every breath

alarmed

snipe, In this

of the grouse's lest state

of robbers

Tories

of trepidation

at the residence

of Johnston

and safeguard

when he casually

wings or the bleating

the merciless

soul to God,

the dreaded

through

the

heard the

of a vagrant

should be upon him ••••••••

he proceeded

until

he arrived

of the Fews who was the terror

of travellers

14. Journal of Thomas Wright, Vol. II, iu.82.

a venture,

Even then he was

of wind which whistled

with terror

and started

When

around him, he proceeded

of Armagh Breagh and Black Bank.

whirring

an achievement

commended his

defiles

heath

from Armagh -to

any man to so desperate

made his will

then having

the journey

ualmost

love of gain stimulated

he first

in the district

of Xenophon on the far famed march.

ou n

Dublin was then reckoned as the descent

of travel

that

An interesting

• . The Johnston's,

Louth Archaeological

who

Journal,

-16-

the power though not the

Fews they were said to have possessed

anecdote

The following

name of Sovereigns.

nt y

may be worth relating.

On a dark night

ou n

On rising

overthrown.

Ar m

rode against

accidentally

Johnston's

up the Priest

of the

each other

and were both

perceiving

the gentleman

a rencontre

ag h

them

the famous Priest

and unexpected

with whom he had so unpleasant exclaimed

concerning

and the chief

a man of humour and talent,

0 1 Lavery,

In the

to the country.

useful

were highly

a century

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n us ty C eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

half

during

whose exertions

family

and valiant

were an honourable

They

robbers.

and other

of Tories

from the incursions

country

of the

district

the mountainous

preserved

were conservators

comes and goes is assured,

That courage

Ar m

of Nazareth, King of the Jews, Jesus Protect us from Johnston, King of the Fews. 11

wastes

smoke of Johnston usual

eyes and take leave days made good his Despite well-to-do

robbers local

in the air.

s house curling

for the escort

to tenderly of their journey

15. Newry Telegraph,

invigorating

Here it was

embrace with tears

in their

who in the course of two to Du.blin. 0 1 5

~nd other

families

new spirit

his arm when he saw the

nerving

and new strength

his heart

ends amidst the

·,

of Armagh Breagh felt

dreary

Ar m

whose courage had oozed out at his finger

and . many a traveller

friend

such discomforts,

the more

of those days made a trip

November 24, 1820.

-17Dublin

fairly

frequently

and some indeed

months there

each year.

The following

journeys

provides

a vivid

early

picture

spent the winter description

of such

of the discomforts

of the

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n us ty C eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

19th century. It was written by the Honble. Mrs. Henry Caulfeild 16 who spent her girlhood days at Castledillon,

nt y

Co. Armagh, with her maternal accustomed

to vary the route

Newry or Castleblayney

family

linen,

household

were sent up by a tenant

loads,

travelled of general

Nor did this halts morals

and that

cost nearly rivals

who acted as carrier

•••••••

Dillon,

nor did the caravan with it

girl

salted

beef,

end there,

- kitchenmaid,

seated

plan cease until

at carman's

of the

soldier

fashion

sometimes of

for the under-

Lady Molyneux discovered

the board and lodging

as much as the stagecoach,

until

and

on the baggage.

inns were not very improving

upon the road.

butter,

second housemaid,

a sort

servants

goods and the trunks

was added to the extent

Ar m

cart .

thing

four

Ar m

every transportable

ag h

When the move was from Castle

via

the Fews.

ou n

Ar m

Plate,

of through

we went to Dublin in November and returned

ag h

June.

Lady Molyneux, who was

and sometimes made the trip

instead

'lYearly

aunt,

the

to manners or

the fourth

now that

that

there

evening

were

16. Widow of the Honble. H. Caulfeild, MoP. Hockley Lodge, Armagh, and mother of James Molyneux CaulfeildA third and last Earl of Charlemont. ·She died in 187~.

-187 of course,

Sir Cape1;

of things.

sorts

and inns that

to villages

and scraped

nt y

his music-stand

jqined

thingswas

unpacked and placed

ou n

in the large

Lady Molyneux travelled

ag h

Ar m

means rare.

I cannot forget

to -Dublin as we approached named Collier

the ivied

of a robber

every-

at inns,

by another

generally

days the stoppage

by highwaymen was by no

our terror

Dunleer,

dra¥m

The time consumed was two

In those

and even of stage-coaches

carriages

barouche

It was followed

two nights

involving

Du,ndalk and Drogheda •••••

passed

with the upper servants.

ag h

Ar m

by her own four horses ••••••.

days and a halfe,

work in gear

and all domestic

He never

carriage

where he set up

Lady M. and the family until

at home.

•••••

he liked

away at Handel as vigorously

diverged

He never went direct,

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

and all

violin

packed with

on the box and the interior

valet

his

chariot,

mode of

in his O¥ffiparticular

he always went by himself,

travelling,

books,

had his own peculiar

on that

whereabouts

winter

journey

the exploits

were well known, and again as we

wall of Santry within

which desperadoes

were

reported to hide themselves. 11 18 17. Fourth baronet. Born 1750. Joined the United Irishmen in · 1792 but withdrew after the formation of that body into a Following the Union of Ireland with Great secret society. Britain he dressed his servants in green and white instead of an expression of his disapproval of the family livery, 1832. died He ent. of the Irish Parliam the dissolution XI, June 1893, p.140-141. Vol. , 18. Monthly Review

-19-

of the old patrimony in Cashel

appearing

families

survives)

and one

(where McCone•s

as McGoan•s and

and in Ballymacnab

still

Bridge

of the

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

surname in the neighbourhood must assmne that

a new version

display

19th century

18th and early

Documents of the late

to the McCone1 so

But to return

nt y

as in the McCone•s especially McGoane•s were, in reality, 19 we find McCoane1 s and McCone•s in Foleyl same authorities

ou n

by which a census

Ar m

Farnamucklagh

who died in October

of some interest

a matter

1942, aged 85 years,

in that

the name to reside In my searches

against

of the clan in

as James McCone

was the last

townland.

the surname I found many

from the 13th century

members of

Alexander McGone, Charles McCoane, Anthony, John and Bernard McCone

a summary showing a then concentration Farnamucklagh,

for the year 1835.

the undernoted

:LO

of the town-

Michael McCone.

Armaghbrague

Ar m

ag h

are tabled

the sept

for Lisnadill,

of the inhabitants

of Ballymacone

townlands

the eight

List

becomes available

parish

ag h

of that

lands

Ar m

manuscript

guide is a Tythe Payers

Our next

to the Macomgamto

variants

ranging

present

McCone.

The differences

go to show a transition

from the original

form previous

to the end of the 16th

-20accepted

from which time onwards the generally

century,

Mcowen, MacOwen,

have been McGowan, McCowane (1602),

renderings

McCone, McOmem, McCoane, Mcowen (1609),

McCone, Mackowen (1605),

McKeon, McKeone, O Cowan (1664),

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

O Coune (1659),

McCoan (1615),

of 18th and first

point.

as McKeon 1 s and in 1863 as McKeone's, An example best

as McKeown1 s.

figure

In 1852 John McCone of the above townland

as John McKeone, in 1854 became John McKeown, in

1860 reverted

to McKeone and by 1872 was again John McCone.

was enrolled

Ar m

that

remains

of the name evidence

ag h

Ar m

afte-rwards

but shortly proves

are entered

Farranmucklagh

the

in 1851 the McCone 1 s of

For instance

ou n

Lists.

Voters'

McCone,

and indeed McKeown. To illustrate

change in the orthography

last

nt y

McCoane, Cowan (1835),

of 19th century),

quarter

half

McGoan, McGone, McCoane, McCone, McGoan, McKeone, McKeon (last

in spelling

negligence

was more likely

individual

McCone•s.

As a matter

for County Armagh, published modification.

but the

careless,

due to officials

on the part

with the surname than indifference

unfamilar

Ar m

Other members of the clan were equally

of ·fact

Griffith

s Valuation

in 1864, gives yet another

There Catherine

and Owen McCone of Farnamucklagh

McCone of Armaghbrague, are enrolled

John

as Macoun•s.

-21Epilogue

of the Sept is very scanty.

for the history

Material

2 0 but were

They formed part

as 1367.

nt y

as early

existed

1264 and the ulands of McComgan"

here before

settled

certainly

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

They are said to have been of Meath extraction

By 1615, however,

ou n

ag h

Ar m

build

Ar m

of Armagh, and find service

at a rent

Mary Fairfax,

during

that

a light

rentals

long period

stone house within

horse

was renewed to his widow Mrs.

a~d by 1660 had been acquired

but by 1711 had passed Archiepiscopal

a fair

and man for His of £114. 6 s.8do 21 Fairfax died

about 1634 whereupon the lease I

to George

of Armagh for 60

the liberties

he to pay a £5 herriott,

Majesty's

in 1620, the

later,

and Ballemacowan were leased

with a town within

the city

Some years

of Balemoire

years,

in a sound

and presumably

financially.

territories Fairfax

ag h

Ar m

position

Six of the McCone1 s were then in

of the major portion

occupation

of the

to two MacMurphy1 s and the rents

increased.

considerably

a part

McCone1 s ntime out of mindu. lands had been leased

they had been held by the

was found that

Armagh and in 1609 it

of the Manor of

Thomas Fairfax,

to the Graham's of Ballyheridan.

give no information

as to the McCone 1 s

with the exception

of a census of the

Manor for 1714, a document already

referred

20. Woulfe, Irish Names and Surnameso Registry. 21 . Rental 1620, Archbishop's

to.

They no

-22out the See Lands brought

that .the new method of farming

War of 1641 and during

Friar

O Mellan's

the Cromwellian

nt y

Civil

we know that

Journal

in the

of how they fared

ignorance

We are in complete

rentals.

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

of the surname from later

the omission

resulted

and, incidentally,

to the tenants

much hardship

is clear

and it

nnder the Archbishop

directly

held

longer

From

period.

was a skirmish

there

in the Fews on May 21, 1642, ·and on May 8, 1644, the Friars

ou n

ag h

have fled

Ar m

1645 suggests

Ar m

westward but if the Battle

following

that

the people

of Scotch

years

immediately

are still

townlands

however,

of the Tythe Payers sons , Francis,

son of Francis

Lists

in the

of the Boyne.

to be able to -record

McCone1 s in Armaghbrague.

(aged about 77 years),

was a steady

the area especially

the Battle

following

tenanted

were still

date onwards there into

settlers

It is pleasant,

they returned

of Benburb.

but from that

influx

of the Fews may then

so we may assume that

In 1664 seven of the eight by natives,

entry

A later

some plunder.

the Fews where they acquired January

September 1 of same

of the enemyu went from Armagh to

"a party

that

year we learn

townland is

The latter

again on May 30, and nnder date

mentioned

the creaghts

six days later

and Armaghbrague.

ag h

Ar m

went to Farney

of Armagh went to the Fews, that

that

there

There Michael McCone and grandson

of 1835, dwells

John and James, and Bridget

with his

of Michael three

his daughter.

Appendix I.

of Ballemacoan.

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m t C © se y a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

on the Territory

Tenants

ag h

Maurice McCoan and Patrick McCoan Two balliboes of Lisleagh and Tullanecran at £3.16.8 per an; two oxen of two years old; four fat muttons; eight hens; two fat hogs; two-barrels of barley or oats; thirty days work with man and garran.

Ar m ©

ou n

nt y

Owen McMurphy and Patrick McMurphy. The three balliboes of Tullybrone, Lisadell and Corran at £21 per an; three oxen of two years old; six muttons; twelve hens; three fat hogs; three barrels of barley or oats; thirty days work by man and garran. Duties to be for corn this year.

ag h

Ar m

James McQoan_and Shane MCcoan One balliboe called .13.4; one ox of two Aghernamuckla and Cavenecrow at£ years old; two fat muttons; four hens; one barrel of barley or oats; ten days work with a man and garron.

Ar m

Patr.1,ck McCQan and Maha McCoan Two balliboes called Armaghbreag and Tanderagee at £15 per an; two oxen of two ¥ears old; four fat muttons; two fat hens; two barrels of barley or oats; twenty days work with man and garron.

Note as to abovev1-- Sir Toby Caulfeild's Account of his collection of Tyrone's rents from his flight in 1607 to November 1, 1610, provides a basis for the value in cash of such herriotts besides much additional information as to prices of other commodities - for instance, cows were 10/- each, calves worth 15/- each, steers 13/4 each, heifers 4/- each, sheep 1/6 each, hogs 2/b each and oats 8d. per barrell.

consisting

Ballymacowan

nt y

in the Patent

Beg and More

ou n

C h ag

Ferneshalg

ag h

Ar m

Armaghbregg Tullybrony Tonregie Tullinegan.

of the Archbishop

ag h

lands in possession All the aforesaid and his tenants in Ballyrnccowan -

Ar m

part of Knocktantie, containing one balliboe Lissnedell, Lurgaboye, Lissdrumgavmagh, and part of Creenkill, Coolekill. Drumgarve and Tullawoskie. containing one balliboe Lislea, Drurnoell and Carneone townland containing Tullyneecan, veeagh. containing one balliboe Carrenbeg als Cavanteeragh, Fernaghnumucklagh and Liscormully. Fernaghneeshaly, containing Corremore, one balliboe, Mullaghmoy, Feavegore and Attycorbe. Bealatallon containing one balliboe, Ardrnaghbreaghie, Annagh Knockbracke and Menemacowan Tearwullin, containing one balliboe Tanneraghie, e. Corbeachan and Dartanffry and Clontiegorog containing one balliboe Tullybrone, Oughtnygrowre. 8

as -

Li -slea Lisnedoth Ballycorran

of Toynregy Fernaghneshallye Corran Ardmaghbregagh

Lisnedull Lisleagh Tollyvegynn Tullybroan mentioned

of Armagh, and

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

his

September 9, 1633, Jarnes 7 , Archbishop of in possession tenants

7. James Ussher, D.D., Archbishop 1624-1656. 8. Chancery Inquisition,

No.20,

of Armagh,

Charles

Appendix III, Hearth Money Rolls Tollonegin Art O Hugh Owen O Hugh Patte O Hugh

Ralph Read Clemenne Read ·

ou n

ag h

Ar m

Cavan

Patt O Haggan Teage O Kelly Patte McEngald Neale McGugin

· Farnaghamurlagh Bryan O Tonner Hugh O Donnelly Tullybrone No hearths

ag h

Ar m

Tonregee. Bryan O Haggan Neale Q Kanevran Shane McGuvhale

nt y

Patt McMurphy Bryan O Gormly

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m t C © se y a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

Ardmaghbreag. Shane Kreaghan 'Patt McEnally Hugh O Cunnagh Patt McGrane

Li she lea.

Lisnadell.

of 1664,

shown.

APJJendix

I"L

Ashe'sI s Survey 34. Corren.

nt y

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m t C © se y a o gh Ar M um un us m t C y ag eu ou M h m n u t C se y ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

land and 74 This contains 493 acres profitable The Measure. all Irish Plantation acres unprofitable, lessee has½ of it in his own hand s, all under stock. Gaven McMurde, Saunders McMurde and Samuel McClealan who cowhave each a small farmhouse with barns and stables, This ¾. other the to tenants are etc. garden~, ~ouses, is coarse grazing farm and on it some small narks of rye · and oats.

ou n

ag h

Ar m

This contains 335 acres Irish Plantation Fernemucklagh. It is coarse arable and pasture land, better Measure. James Chambers, John Duncan, Pat Tonor, and than above. who have each McArdell and Gillduff a small farm house with barns, etc. and several cottiers The last two towns with cabins under them are tenants. and are bounded by the Ballemcowen Water west, lie together Claudemore and Claudebegg, south and east and Folea north.

ag h

Ar m

This contains 191 acres Irish Plantation Lisnedill John Read, John May, near to whose house is a Measure. large fort with a small grove or thrump of thorn trees William Murdagh and and some few fruit trees upon it. William Read are tenants and have each a small farmhouse with etc. and under them cottiers with barns, stables, It lies about 2 miles from Armagh, and is cabins, etc. bounded with Ballemarron north, Latmacullan east, This is west, Lislea and Ballymacnabb north. Killyfaddy very good arable and pasture land and there are good meadows upon it and it is well enclosed with quicksand dry ditches.

Lislea.

Measure. This contains 151 acres Irish Plantation Dinsmore Adam William Campbell Thomas and Hugh Miller, They have each a small and John Simpson are tenants. etc. and have under them farm-house with barn stables, and It is bounded with Killefaddie with cabins. cottiers west, Ballemcnobb east and south and Lisnedell Tullenegin A good turf bog and some meadow, and on it a north. This lies about three miles from Armagh. large fort. '

Appendix IV

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(cont

d).

farm belongs to this It contains the whole 160 the other half is No.35. lease, that there is no more so Measure, acres Irish Plantation It is coarse, arable and than 80 acres like measure. Ja.mes Fulton, John Johnston, who have each pasture land. under the m of them a small farm-house and some cottiers and west, south Graymore It is bounded with are tenants. Tanderagee north, and Ballemcowen River or Water east.

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Tullebrone There is but half of this

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Ar m

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land 35. Armagh breague This contains 343 acres unpro f itable measure like Measure and 301 acres Irish Plantation Capt. Read and James McDonnel Wallise, Leard unprofitable. who have each are tenants and under them are 24 cottiers, This a small tenement with a cowhouse, potato garden, etc. under parks small some are There is a coarse grazing farm. their rents chiefly by make iers under-cott The oats. is bounded with TullyThis etc. grazing young cattle, vallen south, Graymore west, and north, and Ballemco wen water east. Note: there are 120 acres of the Commonof Ballemcowen belonging to this farm.

Ar m

This contains 173 acres Irish Plantation Tandragee. John Lucas who has a good farm house . with a barn Measure. built with stones ·and Constant McKernan and who have each a small farmhouse with barns and under them This better land than who have cabins? etc. some cottiers It is arable and above and lies under the mountain. It is now under corn and stock an? has upon pasture land. Lucas holds it and Ballemcowen Water serves it a corn-millo Note: The water to this mill is carried across a small it. glen b¥ wooden troughs about 30 yards.

But one half of it held by this lease and The Measure. 80 acres Irish Plantation that containing other half is held by Arthur Graham in No.34. John and Walter Johnson who have each a small stone farmhouse with with cabins barns and stables and under them some cottiers There are land. This is arable and pasture are tenants. These last two lie some small meadows belonging to it. to~ether and are bounded with Armagh-brege south, Graymore andBallebrolly west, Killefadde north and Ballemcowen Water east.

Tullebrone.

Ap11en~I.Y_._

( cont 1 d).

Tullynagin.

nt y

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

This contains 110 acres Irish Plantation Measure. It is arable and pasture land and has upon it some me.adow. James Morrison, Jeremy Frame and David Dixon who have each a small farmhouse with oat-kilns, barns, stables, etc. This is but hungry dry land and it is bounded with the Ballemcowen Water and Tandragee west, Lislea east, Killefadde north and Farrenemuclagh south. This lies about three miles from Armagh.

(Archbishop's

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Public

Registry,

Library,

Armagh).

A.ppendj,~ V 1 of the Manor of Armagh - 1714A

Rental Armagh-brege. '

Chief tenant

James McDonnell Owen O Neill James McDonnell Phel Neile Edmond O Kelly Bryan O Kelly Hugh Lappan Bryan McAnally Knocher McAnally

R R R R R R R R R

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Ar m

Thos. Gamble Jas. McNare

Lisnadill

Tullybrone John Johnston John Jefferys Wm.Johnston

John Miller George Ffoard John Simpson

Chief tenant

Walter Johnston Jas. Ireland Tur. 0- Neile

R R R

R Hu g R R · Cormack Lappan R R R Jas. Haverty R

- Arthur Graham, gent.

Neal Maghingall Owen O Donely Pat McGirr

- Arthur Graham, gent.

Neece Toner P Gilduffe McArdle R Cullo McArdle R Teige McCoen p

Chief tenant

Wm. Gamble

R R R R R R R

ou n

ag h

James Chambers David McClure Pat Toner Hugh Toner

Callow Mccann Cormick McAnally Neil Coll John O Ffeighan Torlagh Bronty Turlagh O Hugh Neil Halgon

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n us ty C eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

nt y

C h

Ar m

Chief tenant

Farnamuckly

R R R R R R R R

Armagh.

- Arthur Graham, gent.

P Bryan Donoly -R P Pat Morgan R P Hugh Morgan R

Gaun McMurdy Alex. McMurdy Samuel McClelland

Lislea.

Phelomy •McGurgan Morris McGuire Bryan McGuire John McGuire Patrick Horgan Hugh Branogan John O Haggan Pat McGuire

Chief tenant

Ballycorran.

- Hector Graham, gent.,

John Mul1en 'Wm. 0 Germill

- Arthur Graham, gent.

P Wm.Johnston P John Reid Reid R William

Chief tenants

p p p

P P

Pat. Curry Thos. Curry

R R

- Arthur and Hector Graham.

P Owen McShane P Pat Lurkan P Owen Carvan

R R R

Thos. Loghread

Appendix v.

Tandragee rage e.

Chief tenant

nt y

Chief tenant

Jas.

- Hector Graham, gent.

James Morrison P Thos. Preston P Hugh Smiley P

Jas.

Frame P

C Ar m

Ar m

Registry,

(Archbishop's

ag h

P = Presbyterian. R = Roman

Ar ©

R Samuel Derry R Gain McCavill P John Gillpatrick

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McParlon McTeigue Stoop Lucas

Morrison .P Wm.Morrison P Jerome Frame P

Pat. Jas. Jas. John

- Hector Graham, gent. P

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

Tullynagin

R R R R

Constant McKernan Samuel McKernan Thur. Currie O Brien

(cont 1 d).

Public

Library,

Armagh).

3\ . Appendix VI. Tythe Payers

Lists

1835.

Armaghbrague...

us M

ag h

Ar m

ag h

ou n

Ar m

Michael McGurgan George Anderson John Fee James Kernaghan Wi dow Harvey Widow Castles William Coleman James Totten Thomas Totten Robert Coleman William Coleman William Henry Arthur Donnelly John Donnelly Robert Miller Michael McCoy Robert Lowry Patric k Powell Mr. Mccleave James Rainey Charles Cavanagh Michael McCone Thomas Conlan William Campbell Patrick Cavanagh Alexander Jeffery Patrick McKeown Bernard Hughes Michael Murray William Tedford Francis Harvey William Castles John Kelly Robert O Brien Samuel Warnock James Harvey Isaac Smith James Castles William Leeman Owen McVeigh Widow Collins

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m t C © se y a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

Andrew Jenkin John Gordon William Wright Robert Hogg Margaret Wright David Jenkins John Clarke, Sen. James Bingham Jacob Clarke Widow Watson James Clarke David McKee James Galbraith Widow Bailie William McBri de Henderson Watson John Bailie Edward Diviney William English Hugh Garmoney John Mc Clean Alexander Porter Ja.mes Paxton William Smith Andrew Steen James Simonton Charles Doyle William Harkness Pat. Doyle William Moore Francis McVeagh James Donnelly Terence Mccardle Peter Campbell J. Donaghy William Warnock Arthur Adams Alexander Mcclean John O Brien Edward McVeigh Pat. Doyle, Sen. Catherine Conlon

nt y

Edward Allen Charles O Brien David Clarke Daniel Holland Catherine Donelly Owen Donnelly Patrick Donnelly Patrick Doyle John Doyle James Thompson Henry O'Brien Archibald Coleman Mary McKeown Widow Callaghan Hugh Lennon Francis Campbell Bernard Keenan Richard McKeown Arthur Murphy John Haughey Charles O Brien Widow Neill Widow Graham William Pepper William Herron Ja.mes McKeown Edward Doyle Henry Murray Samuel Seceveral William Hanly James Murray William Henry Joseph Porter Alex. Porter John Mcclelland William Moody Thomas Glover Samuel Warnock Charles O Brien John Neill Patrick McGrath William Campbell

.t\ppendix VI ,

(cont'd).

corran.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m Bernard Quinn Arthur Toner Owen Toner Patrick Toner Francis Ton.er Hugh Toner Michael Toner Peter Toner Patrick McCristal Michael Boyle Arthur Boyle Terence Rafferty Peter McDermott Robert Kearney Francis O'Neill Bernard Megain

ag h

Ar m

CharlesMcCoane Peter Toner, Jun.

•

John McCone Anthony Mccane John Mccane James Kelly John Kelly Michael Toner Terence Toner Dennis Short Peter Lappin Michael Lappin Owen Lappin Thomas Corr Patrick Monaghan Bernard McCoane Patrick Lappen John Dowris

ag h

John Mccardle George Rutledge Widow Murphy James Murphy Robert Fegan Patrick McKee Bernard Carbery Arthur McKee Felix McKee AlexanderMcGone OwenMcKenna Widow Devlin Roger Toner Denis Toner Hugh McCall

Owen Morgan John Neill Bartholomew Vallely Patrick McNally Alex. Allen, Sen. Sandy McKeown Terence McArdle Widdow Trodden Bernard Vallely Widow Grimes Patrick Kerr John Kerr John Mccardle Samuel Price Brian McFarland Peter Callaghan John Toner Terence Toner Hans Rippett Owen McFarland John Mccardle Arthur Kerr William Mills Robert Rainey James Dogherty

ou n

Ar m

Farnanamucklagh,

James Harvey John Harvey Hugh Finn Bernard Hughes Edward Rogan Michael Cole Patrick Sharkey Thomas Collins Terence Connolly Patrick Grimes Terence Kelly Widow Kelly Ja.mes Mccann John McKenna Arthur Corrigan Charles Cavanagh Terence McArdle Patrick Gribben Patrick Cowan Owen Magee Roger Magee Patrick McNally Widow McNally Patrick Morgan John Dogherty Michael Cole

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nt y

Michael Doran Patrick Toner Samuel Fulton Michael McArdle John Hughes Widow McGiveran Alex. Allen, Jun. William Mills Neill Molloy James Murphy Terence McFarland Bernard Feighan Henry Steinson . Henry Pinkerton James Dogherty Robert Feighan Hugh Maguire Owen Donaghy Patrick Donaghy Patrick McNally Dennis Short Bridget McFarland Patrick Donnelly Widow John Donnelly Bridget McCartney John Short

Appendix YI

(Cont• d).

Lisnadill, Joseph Menary David Ireland John Marshall Mary Morrow James Morrow Thomas Marks

William Reed Widow Reed James Hanlon Joseph Devlin Thomas McKenna Jame s Marks

Lislea

Sen. Juno

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

David Williamson, David Williamson, John Donaldson Widow Atkinson John Donaldson James Donaldson

ag h

Francis Wilson Peter Nugent James Catenay John Hanlon James Catenay Widow Kearne y Francis Kearney Samuel Dickson Elizabeth Reid Lawrence Kearney David Duncan James McCreish

OwenDevlin

John Clarke John Rocks Arthur Johnston George Hall William Moore John Rocks John Johnston Thomas McTeague James Jeffery Terence Mccardle William Jeffry Hugh Jeffry

Francis McLaughlin Bernard Donnelly Laughlin Donnelly James Cashedy Peter Kernan Francis Campbell Bernard Lindsay Patrick Lindsay Widow Lindsay John Catenay Thomas McKee John Mcilkerian James McKee

John Lawson Peter Cassedy John Cassedy Michael Gormal,Sr. Michael Gormal,Jr. Alexander Gormal Hugh McCall Terence Trodden John Trodden Peter Catenay Ja.mes Donnelly Terence Donnelly James Morrison

Ar m

Tanderagee.

Patrick Toner Patrick Duffy Hans Johnston John Clarke Robert Donnelly Matthew Johnston Clement Courtney William Moore John Robson Peter Rocks David Jeffry Brian Toner

Michael McGiveran Philip Feighan Thomas McDowell George Hall Hugh Jeffry Patrick Duffy Hans Johnston John Murphy Richard Donnelly James Donnelly Alexander Jeffry Edward Conry

Robert Mccann, Jr. John Mccann Henry Moffett James Rocks Henry Rocks Bernard Rocks Francis Kelter Charles Keating

ou n

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Tullybrone.

John Houston Robert Houston Constant Donnelly Thomas McKinstry Arthur Vallely Francis Kerr Andrew Gamble Robert Mccann, Sen.

nt y

Roger Mccann Thomas Mccann Richard Kane James Houston William Girvan James Magurk Richard Gray Charles Keating Archibald Glenny

Appendix (cont

ag h

Registry,

Ar m ©

Cornelius Donnelly Owen McKenna Peter Nugent James Taylor

Public

Library,

Armagh)o

ag h

m Ar ©

James Morrison Patrick Hanlon Ardle Hanlon Widow Hanlon Thomas McCristal

ou n

C h ag Ar m

Francis Wilson Laurence Kelly

nt y

Tullynagin,

(Archbishop's

d).

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Francis Toner Hugh Morrison James Terry

Hugh Morrison William Freme Jeremiah .Morris Noble Freme Samuel Craig

d).

James Devlin John Devlin Hugh McCall

(cont

Tanderagee

YI,

Ar m

(Note: The surname O Coune appears in the Poll Tax of 1660 but the Hearth Money Rolls of four years later give it as McKeon and McKeone. The prevalence of McKeownin Armaghbrague in 1835 raised a query whether the registers of ·Granemore and Ballymacnab should not be examined to discover if by any chance the McKeown's of that town.land appear in Baptisms, Marriages and Burials as McKeon1 s or McCone1 s.) .

•

Tythe Payers

Lists

1835.

Armaghbreague Michael McGurgan George Anderson John Fee James Kernaghan Widow Harvey Widow Castles William Coleman James Totten Thomas Totten Robert Coleman William Coleman William Henry Arthur Donnelly John Donnelly Robert Miller Michael McCoy Robert Lowry Patrick Powell Mr. Mccleave. James Rainey Charles Cavanagh Michael Mccane Thomas Conlan William Campbell Patrick Cavanagh Alexander Jeffery Patrick McKeown Bernard Hughes Michael Murray William Tedford Francis Harvey William Castles John Kelly Robert O'Brien Samuel Warnock James Harvey Isaac Smith James Castles William Leeman Owen McVeigh Widow Collins

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

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Ar m

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ou n

Ar m

Andrew Jenkin John Gordon William Wright Robert Hogg Margaret Wright David Jenkins John Clarke, Sen. James Bingham Jacob Clarke Widow Watson James Clarke David McKee James Galbraith Widow Bailie William McBride Henderson Watson John Bailie Edward Diviney William English Hugh Garmoney John Mcclean Alexander Porter James Paxton William Smith Andrew Steen James Simonton Charles Doyle William Harkness Pat. Doyle William Moore Francis McVeagh James Donnelly Terence Mccardle Peter Campbell J. Donaghy William Warnock Arthur Adams Alexander McClean John O1 Brien Edward Mcveigh Pat. Doyle, Sen. Catherine Conlon

us M

nt y

Edward Allen Charles O'Brien David Clarke Daniel Holland Catherine Donelly Owen Donnelly Patrick Donnelly Patrick Doyle John Doyle James Thompson Henry O1 Brien Archibald Coleman Mary McKeown Widow Callaghan Hugh Lennon Francis Campbell Bernard Keenan Richard McKeown Arthur Murphy John Haughey Charles O1 Brien Widow Neill Widow Graham William Pepper William Herron James McKeown Edward Doyle Henry Murray Samuel Seceveral William Hanly James Murray William Henry Joseph Porter Alex. Porter John Mcclelland William Moody Thomas Glover Samuel Warnock Charles O1 Brien John Neill Patrick McGrath William Campbell

Tythe Payers

Lists

1835.

Corran.

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ou n

ag h

John Mccardle George Rutledge Widow Murphy James Murphy Robert Fegan Patrick McKee Bernard Carbery Arthur McKee Felix McKee Alexander McGone Owen McKenna Widow Devlin Roger Toner Denis Toner McCone ug cCa

Charles

Pet er Toner, Jun.

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nt y

Ar m ©

Farnanamucklagh.

Owen Morgan John Neill Bartholomew Vallely Patrick McNall y Alex. Al l en, Sen. Sandy McKeown Terence McArdle Widow Trodden Bernard Vallely Wido w Grimes Patrick Kerr John Kerr John Mccardle Samuel Price Brian McFarland Peter Callaghan John Toner Terence Toner Hans Rippett Owen McFarland John Mccardle Arthur Kerr William Mills · Robert Rainey James Dogherty

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m t C © se y a o gh Ar M um un us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m t C © se y a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

Ja.mes Harvey John Harvey Hugh Finn Bernard Hughes · Edward Rogan Michael Cole Patrick Sharkey Thomas Collins Terence Connolly Patrick Grimes Terence Kelly Widow Kelly James Mccann John McKenna Arthur Corrigan Charles Cavanagh Terence McArdle Patrick Gribben Patrick Cowan Owen Magee Roger Magee Patrick McNally Widow McNally Patrick Morgan John Dogherty Michael Cole

Michael Doran Patrick Toner Samuel Fulton Michael McArdle Joh..n Hughes Widow McGiveran Alex. Allen, Jun. William Mills Neill Molloy J arnes Murphy Terence McParland Bernard Feighan Henry Steinson Henry Pinkerton James Dogherty Robert Feighan Hugh Maguire Owen Donaghy Patrick Donaghy Patrick McNally Dennis Short Bridge McParland Patrick Donnelly Widow John Donnelly Bridget McCartney John Short

John McCone

AnthQllY

McCone

John McCone James Kelly John Kelly Michael Toner T.erence Toner Dennis Short Peter Lappin Michael Lappin Owen Lappin Thomas Corr Patrick Monaghan

Bernarq McCone

Patrick Lappen John Do·wris

Bernard Quinn Arthur Toner Owen Toner Patrick Toner Francis Toner Hugh Toner Michael Toner Peter Toner Patrick McCristal Michael Boyle Arthur Boyle Terence Rafferty Peter McDermott Robert .Kearney Francis O'Neill Bernard Megain

Tythe Payers

Lists

1835.

Lisnadill. enary Joseph Menary David Ireland John Marshall Mary Morrow James Morrow Thomas Marks

us M nt y

· John Houston Robert Houston Constant Donnelly Thomas McKinstry Arthur Vallely Francis Kerr Andrew Gamble Robert Mccann, Sen9

ag h

William Reed Widow Reed James Hanlon Joseph Devlin Thomas McKenna James Marks

Robert Mccann, Jun. John Mccann Henry Moffett James Rocks Henry Rocks Bernard Rocks te -r Francis Kelter Charles Keating

Patrick Toner Patrick Duffy Hans Johnston John Clarke Robert Donnelly Matthew Johnston Clement Courtney William Moore John Robson Peter Rocks David Jeffry Brian Toner

John Clarke John Rocks Arthur Johnston George Hall William Moore John Rocks John Johnston Thomas McTeague James Jeffery Terence Mccardle William Jeffry Hugh Jeffry

Francis McLaughlin Bernard Donnelly Laughlin Donnelly

John Lawson Peter Cassedy John Cassedy

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Michael McGiveran Philip Feighan Thomas McDowell George Hall Hugh Jeffry Patrick Duffy Hans Johnston John Murphhy Richard Donnelly James Donnelly Alexander Jeffry Edward Conry

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Ar m

Roger McCann Thomas Mccann Richard Kane James Houston William Girvan James Magurk Richard Gray Charles Keating Archibald Glenny

ou n

Lislea.

Tullybrone.

Sen. Jun.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m t C © se y a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

David Williamson, David Williamson, John Donaldson Widow Atkinson John Donaldson James Donaldson

Tanderagee Francis Wilson Peter Nugent James

Catenay

Tythe Payers Lists

( cont I d). ·

ag h

James Morrison Patrick Hanlon Ardle Hanlon Widow Hanlon Thomas McCristal

Cornelius Donnelly Owen McKenna Peter Nugent . James Taylor

Ar m

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

ag h

Hµgh Morrison William Freme Jeremiah Morris Noble Freme Samuel Craig

Michael Gormal, Sen. Michael Gormal, Jun. Alexander Gormal. Hugh McCall Terence Trodden John Trodden Peter Catenay James Donnelly Terence Donnelly James Morrison Francis Wilson Laurence Kelly

ou n

Ar m ©

James Cashedy Peter Kernan Francis Campbell Bernard Lindsay Patrick Lindsay Widow Lindsay John Catenay Thomas McKee John Mcilkerian James McKee Francis Toner Hugh Morrison James Terry

nt y

John Hanlon James Catenay Widow Kearney Francis Kearney Samuel Dickson Elizabeth Reid Lawrence Kearney David Duncan James McCreish Owen Devlin James Devlin John Devlin Hugh McCall

Tanderagee

Tullynagin.

1835.

Abstract from Tythe Pay~rs Lists, Archbishop's Registry, Armagh.

Lisnadill

Parish

1812,

3'/ s.J.1.ellings Qf tQ\filland names in 19th centuries. 18th. and _..____;

Variat~:r_ 17th,

____

..;..

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Ar m

August 12, 1609,

Lisnedull Toynregy Tullibroane Tollynegynn Armaghbregagh Lisleagh Fernaghleshalge Corran

Ar m

Lisnodolhe Tonrogie Tulbrony Tullinegan Armaghbonoga ·· Lislea Ferneshalge Ballycorran

ag h

Map of 1609,

Ar m

ou n

nt y

Lissnedull Lisseleigh Drommoyle Cavnegrogh Corran Ardmaghbreigy Tonregugh Tullybrone

of 1608,

Inquisition

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Compiled as a guide to possible meanings of the town.land · of BallymcCoan. names of the territory

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of spellings

Variations

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Grant of September 9, 1633.

Lisnedoth Tonregie Tullybrony Tullinegan Armagbregg Lislea Ferneshalg Ballycorran) Beg and More)

Lisnedull Taynregy Tullybroan Tollyvegynn Ardmaghbregagh Lisleagh Fernaghneshallye Corran

Ar m

Lisadell Tanderagee Tullybrone Tullanecran Armaghbreag Lisleagh Aghernamuckla Corran

ou n

of 16l5,

Rental

nt y

Lisnedolly Tonregie Tulbrone Tullinegan Armaghbragre Lislea Ferneshalge Ballycorran

~5, 1614-l2...

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Febryary

Inquisition

of townland names.

Downsurvey 1641. Lisnadell Tonregee Tollebrone Tullynegonie Armaghbreg Lissleagh Fernaghmu cklagh

Corranmore.

Lissnedell Tanneraghie Tullybrone Tullyneecan Ardmaghbreaghie Lislea Fernaghnumucklagh Carrenbeg and Correnmore

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Vatiations of spell1ngs

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Lesnadill Tonregee Tollibrone Tullyenegeine Ardmaghbregg Lesseleagh Fernamucklagh Coranmore

ag h

Poll Tax 1660_._ Lisnadell Tonrige Tolle nag in Ardmaghbeg

1657.

Ar m

ag h

Lysnedel Tandrchgoe Tullybrowne Tullynagin Ardmag-Brege .Lysaleagh Fernagh Mucklagh Caronmore

Ar m ©

Cromwell Inguisition

Hearth Money Rolls 1664. Lisnadell Tonregee Tollonegin Ardmaghbreag Lishelea Farnagh amurlagh Cavan

1654-1703,

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Book of Survey and Di§tribution

of town.land names,

Notes relating

Stray

to the Sept of ClanmcCoane.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

1 Pardons in 1602.

ou n

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Ar m

nt y

Intrusion their rebellion. For murder committed before Cro Lord Deputy 1 s wn excepted. ts to the on Crown lands and deb warrant for same dated June 24, 1602. ) Morris McCowane, Yeoman. James Oge McCowane, Yeoman )) All of the Fewes. Rorie McCowane, Husband.man. ) . Torligh McCowane Yeoman ) Shane McCowane, Yeoman.

2An Inquisition

that

Ar m

1609, states

taken at Armagh 12th August 7 James I,

Ar m

e out of mind The Sept of Clan mcCoane was possessed tim of the eight towns of (Lisnadill). Lisnedull . (Lislea). Lisleagh • ) · Tollynegynn ( Tullynagin (Corran). Corran (Tullybrone). Tullibroane (Tanderagee). Toynregy (Farranamucklagh). Fernaghleshalge (Armaghbrague). · Armaghbregagh

Archbishop (of Armagh) of in Fuighes Barony, at a rent e tonevthe er in his hands. £1, but that those towns wer

l. 2.

Fiats

of Elizabeth.

Calendar Patent

Rolls.

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. 3 . Archbishop of Armagh, Feb.25, Grant to Christopher of Ballymcowen in Fues Barony 1614/15, of the territory the towns and lands of_ containing Lislea Lisnedolly Ballycorran Fernashalge

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

other

lands in said territory.4

nt y

and all

Armaghbregre Tulbrone Tonregie Tullinegan

ou n

ag h

Armaghbregie Tullbrone Tonregie Tullynegan 5

Lislell Lisnedolshe Ballycorran Fernashalge

ag h

Ar m

Archbishop of Armagh, July 3, 1620, Grant to Christopher, of of Ballyrncowen country consisting

Ar m

Turlo McGowanresident II Tur lough McCone

in Armagh City in 1615. 11 11 11 1624. Lt

Ar m

Esq. in possession of George Fairfax, Ballemcoan Territory man and horse To provide a light for 60 years, £5 herriott. See Rental of 1620, also rentals Service. 's for His Majesty of 1624, 1628, and 1631. Same lands leased for same term 14th July, 1634, to Mary Fairfax, widow. Mrs. Fairfax, widow, shown in 1660 and Thos. Fairfax in 1663. Arthur Graham lessee in 1711, and townlands given as Farneshalye aJjas Farnemuckley Tullybrone Lislea muckl ey als Cavanagrough Armaghbrege Lisnedullye Tullanagin Tanragye _ Ballycorran

3. Christopher 1613-1625.

Hampton, D.D., Archbishop

4. Calendar

Patent

Rolls

12 James I.

5. Calendar

Patent

Rolls

18 James I.

of Armagh

-3-

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

lands returned by ·the of forfeited A distribution Dovm Survey, shewing whose they weve in Anno Domini 1641 and to whom they are now set out. b Co. Armagh.

Fews Barony,

Ar m

of George Fairfax.

ag h

m Ar

of the heirs

Book of Survey and Distribution

481 acres.

ou n

ag h

In possession

Ar m

nt y

Armaghbreg 223 acres. The Commons of Ballymacowen. Coranmore 567 acres Ferhamucklagh acres 3i5 Tollebrone 1 0 acres Tonregee 173 acres 110 acres. Tullynegonie Lessaleagh 151 acres Lisnadell 191 acres

1654-1703. 7

Ar m

223 acres Ardmaghbregg Commons of Ballyrnacowen 120 acres. 493 acres Coranmore 335 acres Fernamucklagh 160 acres Tollibrone 173 acres Tonregee 110 acres Tullyenegeine acres 157 Lesseleagh 191 acres Lesnadill

Fewes Barony, Co. Armagh.

6. Volume 1-5-2, Stowe M.SS. Royal Irish Academy.

A~ tq Sliabh Fuaid in Annals of the Four Masters ..

References

Age of the world 3,500.

The Battle

819.

Army led by Conchobhar, Sliabh Fu.aid, and all as Emhain Macha.

922.

The Steward of Patrick died. Leinster

son of Donnchad to Ardachadh of Airthera devasted by him as far

ou n

nt y

of Sliabh

Fu.aid.

Fuaid by Ferghan over the Ui-Meth.

709.

at Sliabh

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

A.D.

Fu.aid slain

s people from Sliabh ·

Fuaid to .

ag h

Ar m

ag h

Dornhnall Ua Neill, the king, was driven from Meath northwards across Sliabh Fuaid (but afterwards returned and plundered all the forts of Meath, etc.)

Ar m

King Domhnall brought vessels over Dabhall and across Sliabh Fuaid to Loch Ainninn so that the isles of the lake were plundered.

slain by Dornhnall, son of Dubhtuinne, king of Ulidia, son of Madudhan and Urghaeth of Sliabh Muireadhach, Fuaid.

1010.

An army led by Brian

1018.

and the Di-Neill of the A war between Maelseachlainn north so that the Eoghanachs went northwards over · Sliabh Fuaid.

1021.

was committed by Maelseachlainn A o-reat depredation and they went northwards ~pon the Cinel-Eoghain over Sliabh Fuaid.

1023.

gained at Sliabh Fuaid over the Airghialla A victory by Niall son of Eochaidh and a great slaughter was there. made of the Airghialla

1025.

An army led by Dornhnall Gott into

Ar m

1007.

Fuaid where and

he obtained Ulidians.

to Claenloch of Sliabh hostages of the Cinel-Eoghain

expelled

the Ui Neills

Breagha 1 and he northwards over Sliabh Fuaid.

t:} b _

References

Sliabh Fuaid,

(cont'd).

A,D, by the men of

1078.

A victory

1080.

Lord of Fearnmhagh Donn Ua Leathlobhan, Sliabh Fuaid. at the Ui-Laithen

10980

An army led by the Munster men to oppose Sliabh

1099.

An army led by Muircheartach

was killed

nt y

to oppose Domnhall, grandson of Lochlainn obtained neither hostages or pledges.

ag h

ou n

C h ag Ar m

men until

they

army was led by the Leinster arrived at Sliabh Fuaid.

with the people of but Cellach, Fu.aid Sliabh to the north of Ireland successor to Patrick made a year's peace between MacLochlainn and Ua Brian.

ag h

Ar m

An army led by Domnhall MacLochlainn

1110. ,

Fu.aid but they

Ua Briain and the people of Leath-Mhoghe to Sliabh Fuaid to obtain hostages of (Domnhall) Ua Lochlainn and Domnhall was in to meet them but the successor of Patrick readiness peace between the North of Ireland year's a made and Leath-Mhogha and so separated for that time.

A great

1100.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

gained over the Ui-Creamhthainn Fearnmhagh at Sliabh Fuaid.

11670

The men of Leinster Siiabh Fuaid.

1452.

O Neill

1592.

Red Hugh O Donnell escaped from Dublin uand proceeded across Sliabh Fu.aid to Armagh

returned

back southwards

over

Ar m

Donough O Carrol, Prince of Oriel, revenges the death ·of Eochy, King of Ulidia by slaying Murrough O Loughlin, king of Tyrone, at the battle of Letter Luinn in the Fews.

1166.

and his forces

marched into Feadha.

Lord Mountjoy after building the Moyry Castle onwards to the Fews Mountains at Armagh.

continued

Place

. - Nai11es.

Names in Terr·i tou_o_.{ Ballemacone

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

He4,J}j,_ng_o_f..Place

Probable

Hill of he a ds. - Tulaigh na gceann Joyce. pl a ce. or an execution Field _of battle Murray. .• Peak of the hea ds. Tulac na gcionn -

Lios-an-doill. Liosan-a-daill.

ag h

Lios-liat

- grey fort.

stone.

Joyce.

Murray.

Murray •

Ar m

- Ton-le-gaeith. Tainnac-liatT

6. Armaghbrague

Joyce. Back to the wind. Murray. Grey pastu.re.

Ar m

- Breug - a lie or falsehood. of the City of Armagh.

Shadow or ghost

Joyce. - Carran - a reaping hook. 1'lurray. Carn - cairn or heap.

7. Carran

ag h

Tanderagee

4. Lislea

Hill of the mill - Tulaigh-bron. Tulac brain - hill of sorrow) Tulac bruacain - border hill)

Ar m

3. Tullybrone

Joyce. Fort tbf the blind man. t~rray. The blind man's fort.

ou n

2. Lisnadill

nt y

1. Tullynagin

8. Farranamucklagh

Land of the swine. - Fearannmuclach. by pigs in fee ding A place frequented Joyce. or slee pi ng . Land of the swineFearann na muc kla. Murray. herds.

Place

names,.

(cont

d).

1. Clontie gorog. 2 . Oughtnygrowre

nt y

Tullyneecan

ou n

Ar m

Augbnagurgan. Ballymacnab Ballintemple Ballymorran. Cashel. Clady Beg . Cladymore Carnavana ghan Cavanakill Drwnconwell Dundrum Foley Killyfaddy Latmacollum Tullyvallen

ag h

Lis:; of Surroundi11g__tg_v_[p.lands.

Ar m

1. Drurnowell. 2 . Carnveeagh.

VIII.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Tullybrone

VII.

1. BallyrncEnave

alias

LatmcEnabb.

Grant to Sir Toby Caulfield 22 May 10 James I~

Place Names ..

Lisnedell

•

in Inquisition.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Lisnadill

Crion-choill.

1. Creenkill.

nt y

Coolekill.

1. Drurngarve

ag h als

Cavanteeragh.

1. Fearnamuckley. 2. Liscormully.

IV. Armaghbreaghie,

1. Bealeatallon. 2. Annagh

Ar m

The rough ridge.

ag h

Garren-Beg

Ar m

2. Tullawoski.

III.

Fort of the ridge of the milking-cow. Backwood.

ou n

Lislea,

II.

Withered wood. The long yellow hill.

2. Lurgaboy. 3. Knocltantie 4. Lisdrumgawnagh

3. Knock-bracke.

Ford of the assembly?

Speckled hill. MacCoane 1 s field.

4. Menemacowan.

Corremore. 1. Fernagheeshaly.

2. Mullaghm.oy. 3. Teavegore. l,-. Attycorbe.

VI. Tanneraghie, 1. Tearwullin

Corbeachin. 3. Dartanff'rye.

~q ·

of Ballemacoan,

of . tQ.vLnlands of territory

Sub-denominations

( cont I d) •

Round hill.

Name survives.

Xnonl11.t;tm1

Q.t....1608

Lissnedull Lisseleigh

Drommoyle

Corran

Cavnegrogh

nt y

;

ou n

Ardmaghbreiigy Tonregugh

Tonrogie Tulbrony Tullinegan

Ar m

ag h

Lisnodolhe

i,6Q9A.

ag h

Ar m

Tullybrone

lN at

Armaghbonoga.

Ar m

Lislea Femeshalge

Ballycorran

AP:tmiil. 3.2.,l,6Q9JI

~§.Uign Lisnedull

toynr-egr tuilibroane Tollyne~i ]

Armaghbr.egagh ]

Fernaghleshalge

Corran

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Compi.led as a gu.i~e to possible mea:nings of the to,mland names of' th0 territory of Ballymacone

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

us M nt y

ou n

C C

Ar m

~:2s .o:Cl6"5• Lisadell

ag h

Tanderagee TullybroriQ

Ar m

Lisleagh Aghernamuckla Corran

Armaghbreag

ag h

Tullanecran

Gu.nt ot Q!tP~..t~.!4. lR33a. Taynregy

Tullybroan

Lisnedoth Tonregie

Lisnedull

Tullybrony

Tu.llinegan

Corran

) Ballyorran re) Mo Beg and

Tollyvegynn Ardmaghbregagh L1sleagh

Armagbregg

Lislea

Fe:rnaghneshal.lye Ferneshalg

Lissnedell

Tanneraghie

Tullybrone Tul.lyneecan

Ardmaghbreaghie Lislea

Fernaghnumueklagh Ctllffenbeg

and

Correnmore

·•Y YA;ci&t10JUL~-~~..At:

rctr§m:YU

Lesnadill Tondregee ollibtone

Tullyengeine

nt y

ag h

Ar m

Tax 1660

Lisnadell Tonrige Tollenaghin

Poll

Ardmaghbeg

Hearth MoneyRoll Lisnadell

Tonreg 'l!ollonogin

A-- ..gb.breag Lishelea

Farna.gha!llUrlagh

Cavan

ag h m

Ar m

ou n

coranmore

Ardmaghbreeg

Lesseleagh Femamucklagh

-•

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

smd D~~\u\.t;l.QU ,l.6~

jgQk

iwWJeU&d JlWllii:Je

1664

•

-4mYllEUa.a a Q.t._7to,rml.arui

Lislaedally Tonragee

Tullaghbronies Tullanegin Al:.aaghb1-ieyn

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

~~~l1ne

Lislla

ou n

QLl,203.

Lisnedill

ag h

Ar m

fandrgee. Tullebrone Tul.1.ynag!n

Lisl.ea Fememueklagh

-,gg lZll..

Ar m

Corren

ag h

Armagh-Brege

nt y

Fernshal.ye a.ls Ferrenennickly Ba.llyconan

Lisnedull ~ ~ 'lanragye :Cullabrone al.s :ru.llagbbi-aine 1full_anagin Armaghbrege ~isloo Femsha.J.:,i) Dallycorren

Rental

of 1714

Lisnadill

Tanderagee Tullybrone Tullynagin

Armaghbreg L1slea

a.ls c. vc:negrough

~.,.

Lisnadell Tullybroan

Armagh Breage

Farnamuckla Irish Curren

Corran

nt y

Scotch

Ar m

ag h

Lisnadill Tanderagee

ou n

At§. Ul35& tullybrone Tullynagin

ag h

Farranamucklagh

Armaghbrague Lislea

Ar m

Irish Corran ? Scotch Corran?

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Rocque's map 1760

324 acres

302 acres 266 a.ores

l.8-7acres 2e95 a.ores 249 acres L1slea >+81acres Farranamucltl~ 20 acres. )l Irish Conan Scotch Cori~an )

Qf spellings

VariatiQns

o.s, 1908.

ag h

Ar m

ag h

Ar m

ou n

Q,B. 1835,

Lisnadill Tanderagee Tullybrone Tullynagin Armaghbrague Lislea Farranamucklagh Irish Corran? Scotch Corran?

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

nt y

Lisnadell Tullybroan Armagh Breage · Farnarnuckla Irish Curren Scotch Curren

names,

Map of 1260.

Rocque's

Qf townland

324 acres Lisnadill 302 acres Tanderagee 266 acres Tullybrone 187 acres Tullynagin 2895 acres Armaghbrague 249 acres Lislea Farranamucklagh 481 acres )1420 acres. Irish Corran Scotch Corran)

(oont•d).

I. Lisnadill ........ ,.

Lisnedell

Coolekill

ou n

ag h

Backwood .

0£

the

milking-cow .

The rough ridge~

ag h

Ar m

Cavanteeragh .

als

1. Fearnamuckley Liscormully.

Fort of the ridge

Carren beg

III.

Ar m

l. Drumgarve 2. Tullawoski.

The long yellow hill .

nt y

Lislea

II.

It. Lisdrumgawnagh

2 . Lurgaboy

J. Knocktantie

Withered wood.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Crion choill

1. Creenkill

in InqUisition.

1. Bealeatallon

2. Annagh . 3. Knockbracke.

Ar m

IV. Armaghbreaghie •

or the

assembly?

Speckled hill 148. eCoane's field .

4. Menemaeowan .

Ford

V• Corremore

l . Fernagheeshaly. 2. Mullnglnnoy •

3. Teavegor.

i... Attyoo~be .

l. c!.

Tearwullin.

Corbeaohin .

Dartanffrye •

Round hill .

Name survives .

Tullybrone

J Tukkyneecan

nt y

l . Drumconwell

ou n C

Aughnagurgan . Ballymanab Ballintemple,,

ag h

Ballymoran an Cashel .

Ar m

Clady Beg. Clady More Carnavanaghan

Ar m

Cavanakill

Drumconwell

Dundrum

Foley Killyfaddy Latmacollum Tullyvallen

Ar m

2.. Carnvaeagh .

VIII .

Oughtnygrowre

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

l . Clontiegorog

Grant to Sir Toby Caulfield [Caulfeild] 22 May 10 James I .

Ma~ Shegts Qf the District.

(Barony of Fewes Map).

nt y

Lisnodolhe. Tonrogie Tulbrony Tullinegan Armaghbonaga Lislea Ferneshalge Ballycorran

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

QQ1Ylt1es 1609L

~sch~ate~

(County Map.

Lisnadill

not shown)

Ar m

ag h

Rocgue 1 s Map of Co, Armagh 1z60. Armagh Brea:ge Tully bro an Ballymacone Mill Ballymacone Water Farnamucklah Irish Curren Scotch Curren Fort Lisnadell Cairn north of Black Bank. The White Water.

Ar m

Tonrogee Tullybrony Tullaghnegein Ardmaghbreg Lissleagh Farnamuckla Corranmore

ou n

Petty 1 s Map of 168~.

o,s. Maps o~

co, Armagh, Sheets 16, 20, 2?:t. 1835-36,

Arrnaghbr ague Tullybrone Tanderagee Lislea Tullynagin Corran Farranamucklagh Lisnadill Ballymacone River

b,O,. Map Sheets of the Distii~t.

o ..§,. Maps

(cont'd).

Armagh , 18.J5~-36,, C_Q,___

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

821 feet) Beans Hill In A.b. ) White Rock 1082 feet White Hill 769) 1011+) Tullyneill ) Tullyvallen Dangry 1093 gressy 773) Tullygressy Altnamackin. -Blasoor 838.

nt y

O.S. Maps of Co. Armagh. Sheets 16,20,24.

ag h

Ar m

249 187 481

1,420

ag h m

302

Ar m

324 266

) The White Water rises south of Armaghbrague White Rock 1082) Carrigatuke and there are t hree ) chalybeate springsg s or spa wells Beans 821. also in t he townland of Armaghbreague Lisnadill bra gue. Tullybrone ) Tanderagee Corrabekin Hill) (Irish Corran ) (Scotch Gorran) (The Grey Stone) Lislea Tullynagin Lough Hill in this townland. Farranamucklagh (Tullyvallen White Hill under 1000. ( Highest points. Dangry 1000; Dungormly 900. Knockowen a hill of 700 feet in Altnamackin Cortamlet? Ballymacoan Mill in Tanderagee townland. Ballymacone River rises in Corran and flows into the Callan at Tassagh. McCone 1 s Bridge, Cashel town.land. Tullyvoney Bog, Farranamucklagh?

ou n

C h

2,895

Acres.

1908.

Antiquities

shoymon a.boveMaps.,

The Grey Stone of Corran; and Fort in Carran. on border between and second fort Eart h en-rin ged fort Lisnadill tha t town.land and Drumconwell where Ogham Stone, so-called Also Bull's Track. Dan e•s Ca st cro s ses this tovmland. Track in Ballymacnab. Two fo rt s and Bull's Fort Lislea a. Cairn at Vicar's Cairn. A Cashel in Ca shel. Cairn Hi l l , Cladybeg

-Yof s:pelling 8 of townland namesll,,

Variations_ of 1626._

Rental

nt y

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Lislaedally Tonragee Tullaghbronies Tullanegin Armaghbreyn Lislia Fernshalye als Ferrenemuckly als Cavanegrough 1_ .,, ::· (--; Ballycorran _p .l_,''1} / '· I" •• ~ i • ;

I•

ag h

Ar m

of 1211.

Lisnedullic Tanragye Tullabrone als Tullanagin Armaghbrege Lislea Fernshalye Ballycorren

Tullaghbraine

Rental of 1714L Lisnadill Tanderagee Tullybrone Tullyna.gin Armaghbrege

Lislea Farnamuckly Bally corr an

ag h

Ar m ©

Rental

ou n

Survey Qf 1703, Lisnedill Tandrgee Tullebrone Tullynagin Armagh-Brege Lislea Fernemucklagh Corren

...

r.'\..,.-<\1-i

...I

,,' •

MQ.pSheets Qf a .Q. a. Ms-1.~Qf

:tlitt.Di§tr;ict,

1 d)

'l..,,

, iavi - 36, _.wwuro ._ CQ

821 feet Be~s Hill White Rock 108d feet White Hill

(cont

) )

ln A. b .

769) Tu.l.1yvallen ·

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

) 101'-ii. Tu.llyneill ) 3 109 gry Dan Tu.llygressy 773 )

Altnamack:ln .

Blasoor 838.

nt y

20,24 . 1908 . O. S. M4E~ pf Co. Arma~~- -Sheets~ ..16,

Act§~a..

ou n

bra.gue .

ag h

Lough Hi.lJ. in this

town.land .

Ar m

Tullynagin Far:ra:na.muckla.gll

481

)

( The Grey Stone ) · Lislea ·

Ar m

249 J..87

) The White Water rises

Tanderagee Cor rabeltin Hill) (Irish Co:rran ) ( Scotch Corran}

Tu.llybrone

ag h

Ar m

324

266 302

1,4 20

south of tand there are three v.Thite Ro-ck_ 1082) Carrigatuke ) chalybeate spr'ings or spa wells Beans 821 ,, also in the town.land of ArmaghLisnadill

Armaghbrague

2, 895

( Ttulyvallen

v~1ite Hill under 1000. of ockowen a hill Dangry 1000; Du.ngormly 900 .,, K.n let? 700 feet in Altnamackin Cortam townland . e Ballymacoan Mill in Tanderage ran a.r.td flows into Ballyr.aacone River :"tses in Cor the Callan at Tassagh . Cashel tovmland . McCone' s Bridge, Tullyvoney Bog, Farranam.ucklagh?

Highest points .

(

a..2·. 1::e1& . _a12s:2v t.i\.ls sh.romon Ant1qJJJ

t in Corran ~ The Grey stone of Corran; illand For fort on border between ond sec and nad Lis t for ed ing n-r Earthe ere Ogham Stone·,~ so - cal l ed that tolmland and Drumconwellmlawh . this tov nd . Also Bull ' s Track Dane • s Cast crosses acnab . Two forts and Bull' ' s Tra ck in Ballym ort Lislea . Cairn . A Ca hel in Co.shel. Cnirn at Vicar ' s C lrn 111 , Cla dybeg .

above maps show -

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

art.l-ten-r:i.ngedfort •

Dane1 s Cast.

. School ·house. Church and graveyard.

point ~18 feet.

nt y

Highest

Lislea sJaa.9,.s.1p._

Ar m

ou n

Earthen-ringed fol?'t. Highest point 446.

ag h

No -antiqw.:ties. filghest point. l+SO.

TullynaginQ.J,l.-lb -,

Ar m

Farranamucklagh ,eh .o.s..2.0. point

s20.

Highest

Ar m

No antiquities.

Armaghbreague 0, s,2.0::?4•

SehoOl•

Church. Tatton's cross s Cross roadsRoads.

White rock Rock 1082. lligb.est

point 1200 feet .•

Fort site,,, School house.

Magee'ssglen Glen.

t1qu1tias.

o,e,Ka12so£ 1s3~.

(cont'd).

nt y

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Tandragee o,s.J16 sP4 20. Highest point 490.

ou n

maps show that the clochan system of grouped houses had pra.etioa.lly disappeared in the Fews, the townl.ands being dotted with isolated houses instead .. There on. Rocque's Map of 1760 that bear a.re, however,-indicators out Donaldson-ts statement and at least one sueh group remained in Farranamucklagh and is shown on the maps of

ag h

Ar m ©

Ar m

1835' -- see Sheet 20.

Ar m

lsate& The torementioned

~. S, Map§ .Q.f ,1832The above maps show -

o.s,16._

Lisnadill

nt y

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

fort. Earthen-ringed School house. Church and graveyard. Dane 1 s Cast. Highest point 418 feet.

Lislea o,s.16.

ou n

Ar m

Earthen-ringed Highest point

fort. 446.

ag h

Tullynagln o.s,16.

ag h

Ar m

No antiauities. Highest-point

o,s.20.

Farranamucklagh

Ar m

No antiquities. Highest point

Armaghbrague

480.

820.

o,s.20-24.

School. Church. Cross Roads. Tatton's White Rock 1082. Highest point 1200 feet.

Corrano,s,20,

Fort site. School house. Magee 1 s Glen.

No antiquities.

o,s. MaR~ of Tanderagee

(cont I d).

16 and 20.,.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

O. S,

1835,

point

490.

nt y

Highest

ag h

Ar m

Ar m ©

ou n

ag h

Ar ©

Ar m

maps show that the clochan system -of The forementioned Note: in the Fews, the disappeared grouped houses had practically There instead. houses townlands being dotted with isolated 1 on Rocque s Map of 1760 that bear are, however, indicators out Donaldson 1 s statement and at least one such group and is shown on the maps of remained in Farranamucklagh 1835 - see Sheet 20.

Council of State

to the

Letter

of the Commonwealth of

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

of the Parliament

Commissioners England.

p.17.

ag h

Dunlop, Vol.I,

Ar m

Ar m © to

Letter

ag h

Ar m

ou n

nt y

This last Thursday a party of the enemy met with a small convoy of 2o horse and 40 foot and cut them off who were conveying 1200 loaves to Col. Venables party at Armagh. The loss to the convoy was occasioned by the captain not observing his orders of eight miles about being a secure way through the Moyry, where they were fallen upon by Tories that keep in those mountains who are reported to be in number 200 horse and 300 foot.

Sir Charles Coote,

of 20 horse and 40 foot going from Dundalk to the army about Armagh to convey bread to them was lately cut off in the field by the enemy, an~ the bread l?st t~rough th~ in not observing his directions. of the officer unadvisedness Col. Venables is now marched towards the Fews to fall on that party of the enemy and clear those parts. A. party

Belfast

8 Aug. 1651.

Dµnlop VQl,I,

Pe25.

The Barony

Fewsin 1655.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

The soyle is a cold mountainous coarse sand for the coarse arable and much red bog but it most part pastureable, graine without store · of manure and' labour. yields very little

ou n

nt y

fearne The mountain in part is pasture mixt with ffurze, The low land is very much mixt with bogs and and heath. There as undistinguishable. shakeing corroghs so intermixt are many small rivers running through it which come from the Mountains of Oryer whose channells and courses being stopt by of ye overgvown heathy grasse that the ·extreame thickness hath turned that land which was formerly meadow-land into corroghs and shakeing bogs and these corroghs incompassing where the natives live. the small hills

ag h

Observations

Ar m

Ar ©

on Map of the Fews.

Ar m

In the Barony of Orier -- nthere hath been no manner o~ Irish here ~enconed forth~ improvement made in the f?rfeited always lived in creaghts which they removea from inhabitants spo~s o~ arable_fo~ place to place to inrich the small building, tillage 11• In Loghgilly parish 11there is little 11 hedging or any other improvement •

Ar m

There hath been noe improvement of either building or onley one castle unroofed. It hath formerly hedging thereon, been a woody countrey but nowe all decayed and destroyed by the war.

Down Survey Maps.

Public

Record Office,

Belfast.

Lands of Ballymaconein 165u, A~ showp.by the DownSurveyMaps 1655 - Baronyof Fews,

ou n

nt y

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

481 acres. 1. Ballymacowane Commons. Coarse mountain pasture. 2. Armaghbreg - arable 60; pasture 163. - arable 100; pasture 60. 3 •• Tollebrone 4 Fernaghmuckly - arable 77; pasture 100; mountain and boggy pasture 158. 5. Corran - arable 100; pasture 369; coarse mountain pasture 98. 6. Tonregee - arable 100; pasture 73. 7. Lissaleagh - arable 75; pasture 76. 8. Tullynegen - arable 55·;· pasture 55. 9. Lisnadell - arable 100; pasture 91~

ag h

Ar m

of the

ag h ©

16 17 18

223 acres profitable. Ardmaghbreg. The Commons of Ballymacownane. 120 profitable; coarse mountain 74. Corramore 493 profitable; 335 profitable • Ffearnaghmuklagh. Tollebrone 160 profitable. Tonregee 173 profitable. 110 profitable. Tullynegeine 151 profitable. Lissaleagh 191 profitable • Lisnadell

10 11 12 13 1.4

Ar m

(Mote: Ballymacowane Commons comprised the southern part Ruined Church in Killyfaddy. townland of Armaghbrague).

furzy bog 361.

-YTax Abstract

Poll

of 1660. 8

- ·---- - ---- -Ardmaghbeg Tonrige Tollenagin Lisnadell

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

16 Irish .. 10 Irish. 5 Irish. 10 English.

nt y

No particulars

Ar m

ag h

ag h m

the Census of 1659. Academy Library.

8. Sometimes called

Ar m

Royal Irish

ou n

C h ag Ar m ©

Farna ghrnucklagh Corran.

Tullybrone Lislea

for townlands

Copy in

10 . The Poll Tax of 166.Q... Shows:

Ar m

ag h

ou n C

ag h ©

Ar m

nt y

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

16 Irish tenants in Armaghbrague .. IJ ll H 6 Ballymanab. tr II It 18 Cladybeg. ll It u 21 Cladymore. . L.isna d._i_.71 10 English tenants in 10 Irish tenants in Tandragee. 11 tl 5 ll Tullynagin.

Ballymacowen

172,2-:1749.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Sale 17 April, 1729. Hector Graham of Co. Monaghan to Arthur Graham of Ballyheridan.

nt y

Three ballieboes or town.lands and one half-townland in the eight tmwnlands of the Territory or Precinct of land called BallyMcOwen - ArmaghBrage, Tullybrone, Tandragye and Tullynagin.

Deed of Assignment 22 March, 1749. Registered 20 March, 1750. William Stewart of Killyrnoon, Co. Tyrone, William

ou n

Agnew of Kilaughter, and exor. of Patrick

Co. Antrim, and Mary Stewart, widow Stewart of the city of Eublin.

ag h

called u u

Annaghbrarne. Tauraghie Tullmagin

Ar m

The Registry of Deeds, Henrietta Street, Dublin, to be examined for references to above territory and for aliases of townlands therein.

Note:

and half-a-townland or Precinct of land

ag h

Armagh-Brege otherwise n Tandragye n Tallagan Tullybrone.

Ar m

Those three ballyboes or townlands in the eight townlands of the Territory called Bally Mcowen.

o\'- •

7'L . Charlemont Estate

Rental 1752-1764.

Granemore "· Cashel,

McKeown 1752-1764.

nt y

Lisaraw

and Patrick

Francis

ou n

C h ag

McKeown.

Cormick.

Ar m

McGonan in 1759.

Peter

Name spelt

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

James McGoan 1752-1764.

Freeholders

Lists.

Michael Bernard Thomas Arthur

McGoan, Cashel. McGoan, Cashel. McGoan, Cashel. McGoan, Cashel.

1825.

Ar m

ag h

) ) James McCoane Foley. ) John McCone, Foley. ) James McGoan, Cashel. ) Michael MeGoan, Cashel. ) Bernard McGoan; Cashel. Francis McGoan, Ballymanab.) ) Henry McGoan, Cashel. ) Phelimy McGoan, Cashel.

ag h

1813-1820. Michael McGoan, Cashel.

1851-1852. John McKeone, Farnarnuckla.

Laurence McKeone, Farnarnuckla. Bernard McKeone, Umerinvore. Charles McKeone, Ballintate.

1852-53.

As above.

1853-1854. Bernard McKeone, Farnamuckla. Charles McKeone, Ballintate. Bernard McKeone, Um. Thomas McKeone· Lisraw. John McKeown, farnamuckla. Peter McKeown, Ballintemple.

1855-1856. Charles McKeone, Ballintate.

Bernard McKeone~ Farnamuckla. Peter McKeown, ballintemple. John McKeovm, Farnamuckla.

All of whomhad leases renewed in the period

1815-1819.

73 .

Rentals

and Freeholders

Lists.

Charles McKeone, Ballintate. Bernard McKeone, Farnamuckla. Thomas McKeone, Lisraw. John McKeone, Farnamuckla. Peter McKeone, Ballintemple.

1860-1861.

· Charles McKeone, Ballintate. Bernard McKeone, Farnamuckla. John McKeown, Farnamuckla. Peter McKeown, Ballintemple. Thomas McKeown, Farnamuckla.

Ar m

Charles McKeown, Ballintate. Bernard McKeown, Farnamuckla. Thomas McKeown, Lisraw. John McKeown, Farnamuckla. Peter McKeown, Ballintemple •

Ar m

ag h

m Ar ©

1864-1865.

Farnamuckla. Bernard McKeo'Wl1, Thomas McKeown,. Lisraw.

. 1871-1872.

Charles McKeon, Ballintate. Bernard McKeon, Farnamuckla. Thomas McKeon, Lisraw. John McKeon, Farnamuckla. Peter McKeon, Ballintemple.

ag h

Ar m

1863-1864.-

ou n

nt y

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

1859-1860.

1872-73

Same and spelled same. Charles McKeon of Ballintate

Sundays. Blayeberry [Blayberry]

a hill

take place,

south of Armagh City.

some seven miles

IS .

in the

land in the historic

to a height

a town-

Barony of Upper Fews, one of the eight of Ballemcoan.

territory

ou n

towns of the ancient

It rises

point in Armaghbrague

highest

nt y

and

known as Carrigatuke 1

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

which such gatherings

of 1,204 feet

is only one spot in County Armagh at

there

At present

in the Red Branch Cycle of Folk Tales it has been

ag h

of Guard

tradition

but practically

Ar m

the site.

location

From time immemorial it Immediately

importance.

the confines

known locally

which also

link

was like

it up with another

only be speculation.

townland

as "Shee Fina 11 or the

says, was the abode of

of Armaghbreague itself

Rock and the source of the little -What the district

remains to show

south of it in the adjoining

whose summit, tradition

Fairy White Hill, Lir, and within

nothing

is evident

seems to have been a place of great

is the hill

of Tullyvallen2

River.

of the famous "White Carn

That it was at one time earn-crowned

Ar m

from local

as the probable

· suggested

ag h

Ar m

figures

The peak was of some note in Pagan days and as the district

the White

stream known as the White in those legendary

famous king called

days,

Fuat cannow

Tracks of some kind must have passed

o. s·.

o.s~ Sheet

Sheet 25. 24.

-2-

even then for in the Bronze Age and probably

through

the Iron Age into

Christian

played an important

situation

times such so no doubt its

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

were mainly on the ridges,

communications elevated

early

right

part in the story of its

prominence in County legend and history.

it on his way to and fro between Emain

traversed

nt y

Cuchulain

the live

the Grey of Macha and the Black Steed

Ar m

his famous chariot-horses,

ag h

he must have crossed great

Ar m

glory in that

mentioned in connection of all

county with stones that

yet his is the name with

are now most closely

Local tradition

from the cairn

pushed over each night

all

erected

by day, ·so that . in the end he deserted The saint

is still

the

church in the

of a

and tells

on Carrigatuke

bull

at Ardmacha instead.

credits

to build his first

ghostly

built

but

are the heroes of the earlier

Almost forgotten

with having attempted

He was not a warrior

date.

missionary,

days but noCso St. Patrick. saint

but the greatest

with the neighbourhood,

which Armaghbrague and Carrigatuke associated.

county of

in the Red Branch Saga might be

was of later

only a humble Christian

covered with

before he fell

combat in the adjoining

final

Ar m

slopes

its

Other famous figures

personage

time as well

by the same route - many another

Emer; he travelled

Louth.

from Emain to the wooing of

When he went forth

of the Glen.

the spot whereon ·

stags and the magic lake from which arose

ou n

he captured

or on it,

Macha and Dun Delgan; and near it,

that

Patrick

the spot and very real

to the

7b . -3inhabitants

of the Brague, most of whom feel

specially

under his protection, regret

that

It is reasonable

preservation

ou n

stones,

tradition

with the vanished

some miles north-east,

ag h

by tales

Ar m

of the devil

Satanic

Majesty

to his

available importance

the great

cairn

which, by the way, is

cairn on Carrigatuke,

of the former,

doing penance in the district,

equipped with

nsuspended from some sort of yoke

shoulders".

The burden was .heavy and his

grew weary, eventually

hills,

spilling

a creel

but as I have often been told

on each

gettin

safe

with the other".

In early sparsely

It may

hell

Why it

of stones

of the three

It was in

place.

a few miles south-west

Ar m

attached

four huge creels

t herefore

on Mullyash,

and the cairn

till

of white quartz

ag h

in local

century.

•

and not a burial

Ar m

linked

White Carn of Guard 11

the uWhite Carn 11 is not now clear.

have had a covering on Carnavanaghan,

assurance

fifth

a signal-cairn

was so designated

the

in the early

probability

that

bull bate him awayn.

to suppose that

nt y

all

uthe oul'

was in fair

but underlying

they are

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

is a wistful

that

days the townland of Armaghbrague must have been

populated,

but as to that

to guide us. in primitive

It is conclusive

that

times because of its

we must pay due attention

tha t surv i ves re garding

we have little

it.

the Fews , one of the County'; side With a se quence Of stor~s ~

Its

information

it was of

position,

to traditionary

material

summit is the highest

most famous districts, that

suggest

peak in

a country-

a Bronze Age back-

17 . -4ground as a possible

beginning.

the days of Emain Macha defences

of Ulster's

mission

to our island

The tale

stories.

with the bull

ancient

of further

nt y

on Carrigatuke

the firesides.

through

ou n

capital.

In the days of

is still

and his adventures

told

the saint

in the fields

ag h

the district

where he probably

so, Patrick

of the district

ended in the slaughter nearby.

Strangely

nthe defeat its

many centuries might learn

of the bull

that

were to the fore

there

credit

are traditions

it was killed was ubrought

fe w l ocal versions

for the

on Corran

accounts

of the district

elsewhere

back 1·' by Patrick,

deeds of that

with

in the County

being dead for

so that

the saint

famous warrior

It may be worth while to put on record

of the stories.

in the hunt that

by Ossian who after

something of the past

and his companions.

there

the local

the natives

That may well be so,

and his burial

enough, though all

of the bull

destruction,

affirming

to the new faith.

activities

the operations

must have made some converts

Ar m

inhabitants

but if

hostile

Ar m

a band of people

to the church-destroying

the story may not disguise

ag h

is whether

found

What does not

Ar m

the bull

with regard

and at

came to Armagh from the

on the peak some custom of which he disapproved. emerge clearly

in the

it again became the source

qf Patrick

We know that

south and so passed

it was a link

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

the Christian

greatness,

southern

Later in Iron Age times,

7S. -12VII.

Carrick

was always a gentle

The top of Carrick before

was always a gentle

place.

It was

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

mebbe that

place.

St. Patrick's

Day for he wus keen to build

An• he wud hev hed a wee church there but that the oul

nt y

it.

night,

heart

ag h

an• destroyed

then the saint

ag h

earlier,

done it

Ar m

Not so long ago thousands There'd

in August.

gored the walls

wus no farther

an• went on to Armagh.

the people riz

that

lost

the saint

forrard

That went on for a long time an 1 in the end

Ar m

Patrick

a bull that

ou n

the mornint ·.

They ·raised

so that

ivery

it.

bits

disliked

druids

It wus mebbe then

the bull.

Better

they hed

might hev stayed.

wud be there

on the first

be games an• dances an• lots

Sunday

of harmless

strong

too,

that

stuff

Ar m

f.un, though to be sure there might be too much drink be times,

hev been somethin' Now they say it's their

sweethearts,

were on the hill The oul'

Sunday that till

wus mebbe on that

paid nothin

start

till

the Excise man.

the bull was killed. the thing1

blayeberries

before

Patrick's

when he come an' that - the rest

There must

they come for an• till

meet

sich gatherin•s

day an• hev lasted

say Carrick

But who knows now?

but indeed it might be that

people used till

tr ee s an• full

iver

wus a cultivated

since.

place

of the country was scrub and

of wild pigs an 1 even worse, things

not hin •s knowed of now, God be thankitl

that

-13-

nt y

of some cult

Pagan custom.

ou n

the wee churchu.

spoiled

Ar m

that

we cannot now say.

usage or it may herald

Ar m

Christian

it as an established

festivals,

younger people are concerned they show little

merely

good crack".

Carrigatuke Festivals other

Day and

As far as the

in the

interest

is somewhat unusual in having two Blayeberry

Sunday in August.

to the mountain begins early

Sunday in July,

to go direct

to the hill,

the

On those two days the

in the afternoon

have been told that in past days it was considered procedure

content

Sundays - to them they are

each year - one on the last

on the first

journey

of Blayeberry

St. Patrick's

and to leave it at that.

whys and wherefores

of Armagh-

should continu~

other

fact,

in converting

Most of them are quite

how it began.

consider

Patrick

the harvest.

why the pilgrimage

Ar m

brague to reason

there

to induce the inhabitants

It is very difficult

of the

that

possible

and had some trouble

there

that

suggestion

How much truth

· It is quite

ag h

found a festival

ag h

in that

the only

Locally

for "the· defeat

it might have begun as a thanksgiving bull

that may actually

for the custom is the tentative

advanced

reason

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

suggestive

in a forgotten

roots

have its

days to the present.

from Patrick's

have continued however,

such

nor do they prove that

the days of Ossian for instance,

They are,

to Carrigatuke

pilgrimage

They do not prove a blayeberry

pilgrimages

of some significance.

I think,

are,

The above stories

but I

the proper

from morning chapel,

taking

-11+-

the younger people who attempt

is mostly

but it

the pilgrimage,

seems made

Young and old it

food for the day.

sufficient

nt y

consisted

years

Sunday most of the

particular

ago and on that mountain

over a quarter

saw the pilgrimage

I first

Some were evidently

ou n

were a number of husbands

there

Ar m

ag h

many of the pilgrims

custom to go to Carrick

Ar m

blayeberries

•

beyond the fact

on that

the pilgrimage

younger days that

man, however,

asserted

uor a priest

Chair one Sundayu. I was present but on that

the pilgrims

as a rule

the clergy

and did not attend

pilgrimage

had heard

that

with

"that

day an 1 ate

in the day,

had

was in some

but they did not remember any

with St. Patrick,

They mentioned

visible

I conversed

ceremony ever held in connection

religious

a few

besides

and with whom I also had a talk,

Ar m

way connected

b~t

sweethearts,

Some old people whom I met later

at the base of the hill, heard in their

company11 on the

but none of them were

for being there

ag h

it was an oul

occasion,

on that

able to give any reason

and wives,

of both sexes.

persons

elderly

unattached

of a century

of men and women under and up to about

of age.

thirty

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

it now.

the

with the festival.

disapproved

Blayeberryings".

of the

One old

it had not always been so for he

having blessed

the people from Patrick's

a second time in 1932 with Mr. H.G. Tempest,

afternoon

I had no opportunity

of conversing

with

as Tempest was engaged on a survey of the places

from the summit, a task

requiring

a telescope,

-15heavy apparatus,

and other

theodolite,

sunshine.

in broiling

the hill

which we had to carry up

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

We were early so the place was less crowded than it would have been later. We soon, however, to those present. became the centre of attraction It was a as well as

nt y

of wood-wasps which were new to the pilgrims

ourselves.

ou C

to identify

ou n

Tempest was trying

because of the fact

specially

visit

I mention that

attacks

that

and made worse by the persistent

position

somewhat embarrassing

as the view-

Carrigatuke

wide view, mountains

Bessy Bell

Ar m

(48 miles),

and Sawel (40 miles)

(45 miles)

one of the finest

a great

expanse of highlands

and lowlands,

distant

mountains

at Carrigatu.ke, a feeling ·blayeberries

- but there there

from the

views in Ulster

rolling

plains

is more than a beautiful

is a definite

being

a host of other

It is certainly

summits.

visible

Slemish (50 miles away), Cuilcagh

to the naked eye, besides

visible

clearly

of country

it commands an exceptionally

so moderate a height

Ar m

peak - for

of the huge extent

ag h

picture

ag h

Ar m

accurate

of an old poem in the Book of Leinster, and his subsequent 10 provides an Journa1 paper in the Louth Archaeological

point

and

v.iew

atmosphere of past days and

of communion with those days and on the right

Sundays

in plenty.

I append a few accounts t aken down in turf-cutting

Sliabhu.

of the custom.

The first

was

time in May 1941, from an old man

10. Vol. VII, pp.455-471.

An Anaient Poet's

View from

85, and the ot her _ in June-July

then aged

sugge st s a considered

sto ry of the problem,

hill-festival

has accidentally

story

and so become a reason

ancient

nt y

of the pilgrimage.

that

an account

the possibility

of course,

the bull-slaying

is,

The first

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

has been handed dovm, but there that

1942.

into

intruded

for the ori gin

ou n

I. They go to pick bilberries,

Sunday in July and the first

On the last

footin'

heared

I niver

how it

Ar m

sweethearts

on .

an ' carryin'

always k.nowed

wur fixt

in "Patrick's

on sich a day .

The

had none wud be · 11 Them li ke the mselv es .

an' them that

Seat" an' hev a wish but the crowds

go sit

same hill

be there

for them that

lookin•

wud all

dancin'

They go

Sundays" an ' many a body met his wife

time on that

Ar m

for the first

it to the top .

begun, but the countryside

as the "Bilberry

of it

that

an 1 for a whiles

ag h

to pick bilberries

ag h

Ar m

see swarms of boys an 1 girls

in August ye 1 d

are not what they were.

Armaghbrague.

11.

This fact was commented upon by Donaldson in 1818 and courtship of_the who states - nThe acquaintance carried on at fairs, are and often commence parties patrons and other public places of rural sports and See Account of the Barony of Upper amusements. Fews. Tempest, Dundalk, 1923.

-17II.

I don't

On the last

always a gathering

people,

boys and girls, 11

Patrick

nt y

Chair".

only came here

There ' s an even bigger

ag h

Ar m

since

I was a boy .

Sundays were always the last

Ar m

My people

I mind them on Carrick

in August.

was a boy - they're

in July

I mind the m on Carric k since

not so crowded now.

12.

and to

Granemore.

The Blayeberry an 1 the first

blayeberries

ag h III.

The young

I don 1 t know why they do it.

of a centur y ago. on Carn Hil1. 12

ou n

Ar m

blayeberrying

on Carrick.

go to gather

Somebody on the Brague may know. about a quarter

Sunday in

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Sunday in July and the first

August there's

sit

know why they do it.

Carn H1·11 nearby~

•

Armaghbrague.

Local name for Mullyash

mountain

-18-

IV. Blayeberry

days they used till goin'

the fiddle

of the evening.

nt y

the heel

Mullyash,

but now they just

The people are gettin

enjoy themselves

these

They

days.

anymore.

Armaghbrague.

ag h

Ar m

I niver

went blayeberrying.

It's

went blayeberrying.

Ar m

I niver

ag h

into

knock about an' pluck

duller

ou n

Ar m

know how till

an• ye 1 d hev

An• at one time there was races an'

blayeberries. don't

than now.

for most of the day - ayl right

games like

dance on it

heared

wud hev been a lump bigger

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

ago the gathering

In the oul•

but

Sundays always bring the crowd to Carrick

Blayeberry years

the crowd.

Sundays ~lways bri~

a long way up from

here an• when I wus a wee one I got enough of that mountain. or an acre or more up

All the farms here had half-an-acre

an' we wee ones wur tormented

there

grazing. a big day•s late

years

Blayeberry

But lt's crack.

not for blayeberries But sure it's

an• in no time there'll Sundays.

an'

with turf-cutting

fallen

for

out of fashion

they go.

be no sich things

Tanderagee.

-19though noted down 1·n Coun t y Armagh, on 1vith blayeberry festivities a lmost exclusively

The next account,

on the Monaghan-Armagh border.

Mullyash Mountain

County Armagh, a village

in Cullyhanna,

recorded

Many a change the world t'akes.

ou n

VI.

ag h

wus not big at all,

ag h

then as I am the day an• that

be 89 come November the twenty-seventh

Ar m

a wee girl

coortin'

it was Mullyash there,

yer sides covered

fun.

that

- he married her after

over there

the earn an' damn all

an 1 roun'

on the hill

The capers 1

with laughin

There'd

•

inches

of t he pole wud be flat

for the one who cud speel it.

them drop ba ck into the water.

An• there ' d be I rish reels

there'd

wud hev made ye

be a pole stannin

deep or more.

an' there'd

- but

of water aroun• it - an•

with soap an' a hole full

t he water wud be eighteen

wus

Scores of people wud be

wus best.

nearby that

over the hill

but dances an'

all

an! mebbe I'll

at Mullybawn once with a fella

Ar m

I blayeberried

split

but sure

the hundred yet.

clear

I'll

I wus as big

at a blayeberrying.

Ar m

I wus first

since

long

•Tis sixty

Oehl many a change the world takes.

years

nt y

Carrigatuke.

than

less

south-west

and about four miles

from Mullyash,

two miles

It was

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

deals

An• the head

be two half-crowns

upon it,

Great God, but it wus fun to see $ights

for sore eyes they wurl ·

an' the best dance of all

wud be a

-20-

part

reel.

two girls

A boy'd go out in the middle an' dance with

time about and together.

then another

an' make figures

sport

of races

an'

on that

nt y

ou n

time I'd

ag h

thoughts

How do ye like

ur declare

the fire

•

right

I fell

Ar m

me boy.

Said he,

out of them.

There'd

ye.

be a ball

it.

There'd

hung high atween two

But all

the prizes

didn't

stay that

He hed a

an 1 we'd a drink to-gether. 1

meself.

An 1 I said to him,

you are caught in the clift?"

to me God but I 1 11 tell

out of the frying

were

way long.

ye the truth

pan into the middle of

God made the two of them but sure it wus the divil matched theml

be runnin•

but she hooked a man an• he

of marryin

it now that

Ar m

But·he

at Newtown fair

met him after that

own.

Ar m

on his

for scouldin•,

ag h

the divil

wus left

them one way an 1

I mind a man that met his wife there.

not in money.

for hittin

stic k s with a prize

sister,

an• there'd

jumpin'

of eight

Sunday I can tell

be great

He'd birl

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

three

Customers

Harvesting

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

that the scythe set free The spirits ree, · Do they exult and doth 8 fly Sower of Life, again t 0 fhee:'l

• . It

It was done on the last

was cu t f rom a butt,

ag h

Ar m

·sh earin·

in a knot.

an• tied

up an• plaited

of corn was gathered

handful

ou n

I .• A little

the Calliagh,

Armaghbrague

nt y

The cutting

day of the

an• the fella

who cut it

an' left

Ar m

ag h

luck

head for

be a bit

there

eleven

The lan

or twelve

was then in rigs

it was cut it

year.

That night

of whiskey for it was

cut by the hook an• I mind well

seeing

nixt

is the day.

as buttermilk

I saw the Calliagh

II.

till

of a spread an' . plenty

as cheap then

Ar m

there'd

it off to the house where he put it above the dure-

carried

oul'

weemin' in one fiel'

an' ivery

shearin'.

woman hed a rig.

was taken home an• hung in 'the kitchen.

11TheRussell] Sower". 1. AE [George

Voices of the Stones.

When

ng of t0e Customs- The Cutting ~ Calliagh ~ - -

Harvest

Home Toastlng song.

Harvest

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

t unto the mas er, the founder of the feast, h. w~ere a~l is love and peace, i~sosoui ~aytrest ur u Y o consider his demands a pleasure to work at his cornm~nds.'

Here's a health We hope to God Whilst here it .t And t , aKe l as

(cont'd).

ty C

come to the last

ag h

When it

ag h

Corran.

Ar m

ou n

nt y

So drink boys drink And see you do not ;pill For ..that is the master's' will. ' Drink boys, drink your fill.

Ar m

or six yards

an'

carried

cut it

next year

so that

there'd

night

in an'

raise

they'd

be a feed.

the Grey Stone lately

it wud be hung up till

that

was cut last

as late

as 1914 on Francis

Bell ' s farm there.

then

snigged

the roots corn b e.nd.•

off with the scythe.

an• the head tied After

It was plai~ted

an'

i t was cut it was takeµ

Parish

I heard of it

The plaiting

with string

That

in Loughgilly

cut at Lisnisk

always.

the

harvest.

I saw the Calliagh

The Bell ' s did it

Him

in Tom Kelly's

I saw a Calliagh

II.

here also.

a cheer.

the house might never want corn.

that

an'

When it wus cut,

threw hooks at it.

they might be some time doing it,

They

it.

an' plaited

an' then stud back five

for who wud throw first

Ar m

then tossed

in three

they cud see an ' divided

lock they looked for the best

an'

was done from

dressed

with a

in an• hung on the

jamb wall.

of "fr· igari. · 11

as a bit

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

be clane

nt y

time it ·will

ou n

h ag

before

Ar m

an• dressed

ag h

the Calliagh.

Ar m

It was him that

Ar m

at the cutting

uBoysn, said he,

for he had pains.

nthere's

a rule

roun• the woman of the house it roun• his

me five

should always

for I was the one that

of whiskey an' we had great

read man so I am sure he was right, the money. sure their don 1 t carry

When we brought

She had plenty.

on oul'

names.

II P'O 0

Nou.

•

So we put

in her purse an' gave cut it.

fun.

That brought

He was a well-

an' his wife niver missed

They were a dacent

house is empty now.

- it's

for the Calliagh,

wife ant she put her han'

shillings

two quarts

of Lisnadill.

to put it about his neck but he said

in we were goin'

all

We called

was the Churn.

I mind once working for Paterson

wasntt

me the

toul'

ag h

male that· come after

first

It was plaited

of yo1Lngsters.

I mind a blind man who used

it was cut.

the cuttin

be at all

do it.

till

fit

It was done then be the

fun.

would be full

hook ant the fielt

year but in a short

for I'm no longer

quit

days it was better

In the oul'

Some were knotted

I cu t i· t 1ast

I flut the Calliagh

III.

They were wore

and diamonds.

hearts

were shaped like

but others

(cont'd).

knots and made them.

I saw harvest

in the buttonhole

till

. of ·the Calliagh

Customs - The Cutting

Haryest

They rvn to girls

family but

an' girls

qo . , Customs - The Cutting _ 9ft he Calliagh, ~

Harvest

(cont 1 d).

Granemore,

At th e finish

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

take t hr ee han 1 fuls Then they'd

That was the Calliagh

them.

an' plait

they'd

of the cuttin'

an' wus

When it

m..ed it do....

nt y

In the days of the hooks it was done be throwin' tricky.

ou n

wud throw it

him prisoner

an' houl'

ag h

Ar m

I wus young there

It was done in me gran 1 father

Ar m

be a cheer an& they'd

I just

kind now.

have had it in, an'

plait

shouted

as well.

·tea that

was a feast

That used till

does it

evening.

an' often be called

nothin

In the oul'

the hook.

It goes into

I•m not the only one here that

there

but there's

but I have no

something when they cheered

memory of what it was now.

always a special

send for a quart

swing me scythe through it,

was done be throwing

but long ago it

When it would be cut in

day as well.

whiskey or mebbe they'd

Calliagh

When

Ar m

Ar ©

time there'd

days they

done, but I

shearin'

a little

wus still

· time an• in me father's

that

drinks.

he promised them all

till

cut the Calliagh.

I still

their

the neck of the man of the fiel

ag h

Killyfaddy

roun

an' the one that

cut but be the sweep of a scythe.

saw it

niver

be a che er,

wus cut there'd

cut it.

the house for luck.

still

an' there's

Always at the end of the a wee bit

"the Churn".

of merriment

~he ~1iJ'(cont'd). uut£:t ._tthe, ~illlli h~e~C oLff'.. ...J:T.u n:ugw t~C~uQ,ls~t~or!J!m~s2.....:-:... a_ry__,e.;.,x.s __ __ H _ Calliagh Tanderagee. I saw the Calliagh cut an• with a hook too but that They P1aited the last wee bit of the' w_as long ago. corn, an' The man that cut then they stud back an• threw hooks at it.

the neck of the man of the house an•

roun•

put it

hang him - but he always bought his liberty

nt y

it,

till

roun

threatened

ou n

C h

I saw the Calliagh

ag h

Whoever cut it

Many a house roun' We bring

Ar m

I. My faitler was shorn then own rig

the neck of the woman of stood the same distance

here had Calliagh

goin'

back for

in still.

the Calliagh

(In whose house I saw four Calliaghs.

told

Tullybrone,

at with hooks.

Ar m

Cassidy.

everybody

At the throwin'

twenty ·years.

roun

ran and put it

ag h

the house.

cut and fired

Ar m

II.

his

1 •

all

· with trates

back.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

by the

to shear.

corn plaited

hook an' There'd

an'

from the roots

men that

were shearing

of their

hooks.

in a field

at the top.

tied

would stand up an'

The one that

Churn 11 , a great

The prize featt

that

every man would have

always be a handful

was mostly followed

of the best

Then the

cut it 'IArithflings

put it

cut it

of the o~mer of the corn an' 1hreatened not get a gift.

Everything

about the Calliagh.

me all

around the neck

to choke him if he did the first

after.

drink at

the

Harvest

Tullybrone. The Calliagh

is niver

throw at it.

nt y

single

the

of spli cing that

ou n C ©

Ar m

ag h

ag h ©

Ar m

had a chance

cut now, sure there ' s no hooks

ones try

only let

( cont ' d).

Sometimes they made a game of it

till

of the Calliagh ..

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Customs - 7ne Cutting

for it . yearl

Him or her that

and vmd got it

Noteor the Festivals kept 1n Ballymacone

The chief

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Christmas The ChristmasRhymers.

characters st. Patrick . St~ George~

The Turk.

in the local version are:The Turk' s father~

The Doctor"

nt y

Cromwell. Beelzebub . Big Head. Divil Doubt and a Master of Ceremonies.

ag h

Ar m

ou n

Costumes are largely the .product of the imagination or and do not always suggest individual parts •. The Turk as a rule wears a turban with a gilt crescent rising fTom it, but he is quite frequently portrayed as a negro . The Doctor, as a rule, carries an immense box of pills whilst Patrick and George are equipped with mitres, sometimes carry swords and shields and on other occasions only crozier-shaped ·staves . the players

Ar m

· Players someti mes wear J.ong shirts over their clothes, tied at the ·waists by coloured scarves _, and carry swords made from the t-tback ribs" of worn.out scythes . With . that form of attire, long black stockings are worn, and tall cone-shaped hats decorated with coloured streamers .

festivals,

Cakes formerly

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

NewYear's Day,

baked for this day~

Water of no kind to be thrown out on New·Year 1 s Day. What comes in first on New Yeart-s Day said to be plentiful for the year. Unlucky for a red-haired person to be the first visitor on that day. Graves must never be opened on NewYear's Day. '

ou n

(Cassidy.)

Ar m

ag h

ag h ©

Ar m

nt y

ag h

nt y

C ty

ou n

ot the wren is a thing of

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Ar m

ag h

Ar m The hunting

Festivals (cont'd). St. Stephen'

the past .

(Cassidy.)

ag h

nt y

C ty

ou n

All Christmas decorations must be removed on or before night.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Ar m

ag h

Ar m twelfth

'I,

·~ Festivals ...

(oont 1 d).

R1eh 1l,W)B&Yn . . Twelfth Day J

(Cassidy).

(

. ,----

(cont ' d).

§t,

Brigid s eve

nw,·.

@d.

crosses

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

n.1Kflk1ugQt Brigid's

nt y

No early evidence is available as to when the making Festival of Brigid ' s Crosses on ,the Eve and Day of Brigid's first began, though there is reason to believe that.the Period and is a su.rv1val of the Christian custom pre-dates in local account is contained an earlier cult . The earliest a pamphlet printed in 1689.

ou n

ag h

Ar m

In County Armagh in such homes as the old custom January continues the rushes are gathered on the last day ofmay not be They must be pulled and and brought to the house. sun cut . As a rule they are not taken inside until after in meal l specia On that evening it is usual to have a set. which pancakes figure . This mostly takes place before the

ag h

Ar m

rushes are brought in, and when partaken or, a female member of the household is ehosen to bring the rushes into the house . She is sent out in the darkness of the night and the door carefully closed . She immediately lifts the prepared rushes from some convenient spot near the door, knocks three times and cries ~•Goon your knees, open the door and let door• is then opened and all kneel in prayer Brigid in 11 • ~• after which the :rushes a.re divided and the members of the household begin .the task of fashioning the crosses .

of the making of the crosses seems to vary ritual districts , In some places a cross is somewhat 1n different partaken ma.deand pla0ed upon the table berore the meal is 11Brigid ' s Tea" ot . The meal itself is generally spoken.of as as SUpper" and though pancakes always feature or "Brigid's districts applegrowing the chief dishi it is usual in certain . . well as to have an apple griddle-cake or apple dumpling ~e

Cross now seldom appears as a made of rushes, though raw cross . It is al.most invariably. are chiefly fashioned from reeds . te interlaced varieties • 1!l8king of straw crosses presents a rather perplexing pr:!~lein . It suggests in some ways links with the harvest and ma~s one wonder whether Brigid took over·some of the namesake . •t t r1butes ot the Cal liagh besides those of her Pagan 8

In County Armagh1 Brigid's

(cont ' d) ,

rush oross is sometimes varied by having weather

rushes of ~he previous year intermixed

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

with new green rhis provides a pleasant contrast or colour but of rushes. cross eventually bleaches to a straw colo~r and the course exposed

is not ·then noticeable.

the effect

ln days past when mo-st or the country cottages were the inner side of the thatched roof was devoid of ceiling

nt y

considered the prop.er- place for the crosses years and ·they usually remained there until

away.

or preceding they crumbled

Ar m

ou n

Crosses when fashioned must not be lightly Brigid's th rown aside .. When they can no longer be preserved they Should ·1,e burned -or buried•

ag h

Ar m

recipients .

Ar m

and

the donor

ag h

, ThoW?h it 1s tho1,1ght more proper to make the Crosses on Brigicf•s l>,q or iVe 1 they a.re quit! often mad~ specially to i'~J.ends • The making and giving of such tor presentation erosses is said to honour st . Brigid and confer a blessing on the per-sons who ma-dethem, their welfare being increased bestowal, and friendship strengthened between by the gift~

• •

'?h~

potatoes

should be 1n the ground on this

warm stde

day.

of the ·stone turns up·•

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Early

On Candlemas day throw the candle away On•.Patrick's s Day throw candle and candlestick

away.

crosses covered with coloured

ag h

Ar m

Ar m ©

wore cardboard

ag h

Ar m

-. 01ris

wonl v . cf.

ou n C

nt y

Rosettes made ot coloured ribbons and called st. Patrick's crosses were formerly worn on this day. The ribbon was mounted on a bit of linen as in the sketch. !he custom has now degenerated into a green rosette •.

(McFarland).

ag h

ou n

nt y

C us

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Ar m

ag h

ag March.

Ar m 2;

/vO .

Fe§tiya,ls,

Lady Day .

(cont'd).

A holiday•

fv(

FesttvaJs,

The first

or April

some do say

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

{ cont ' d) .

Was set apart for All Fool's s Dayt But why the people call it so · Not I, nor they themselves .do known. fool their

nt y

Children

elders and they themselves are and other impossible

sent on "Fool Arns" for «round squares

th:lngs .

Ar m

ag h

ag h ©

day .

Ar m

this

ou n

Cuckoo Swallow and Corncrake are said to arrive on

•

I o'Z

(eont•d).

Easter · Eggs boiled hard and

·with tea leaves

sufficiently

hill

ag h

v- -

Ar m

Ar m ©

ag h m

Ar ©

ou n

C h ag Ar m

(Cassidy, McParland, 0'Neill, etc ,).

nt y

on the s-lo pe of a ·gentle

whin blossoms. When coloured were then trundled or in a meadow. and

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

really

May eve

s,ent to gather Rowan tree branches •d be an• get May flowers an• when we brought them home they win] dows". r step and put on the duresteps [doo Tanderagee.

nan. MayEve we•d

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

nt y

May Day was sometimes kept by the very old peop1e on May, the llth .

ag h

"On the day

ag h

Ar m

ou n

at the "We gathered May flowers always an • put a lock ther] byre du.re an• the stable well an ' at the house dure, [doo mischiefs, dure . It was done for luek an.' protection 0£from such things an• day are careless ldren] but sure the childer [chithe lazy besides - they•d ha.rdJ..y go for them now." Armaghbrague.

May Eve we,• a all

May

be gathering

Ar m

keep the witches an• to rs] flowers to throw aroun* the dures [doo ,ant the man or woman who got the at a distance, fairies mornin 1 got . the first go of water f'rom the well on May flower of the yearts wate:r ant the luek as well . " Armaghbrague.

Eve an ' put on "May flowers were gathered then on May cattle houses an • all, an • the doors an • window sills hey were al.ways put at the well. Corran

on May Eve but "WhenI was a wee one I t-d always be out ght right till be not a£ter sunset mjnd ye . It wasnt t anthou • pull bushes ant out then . We'd all gather togither the bushes an t kaYf.lowers . An• the May flower we would tiela.nont over . I don ' t d march the town :~~ we all had posiesbut we' .. u weu we did it an • liked it """ why we did it,

Corran

1 have seen twenty children gathering May flowers in They t d put a few of them on every door, even the w holme the duck 1rouse door, and always at the well. n . 11

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Cassidy, . tanderagee .

nt y

Unlucky to fall

asleep out of doors on May Day.

Ar m

ag h

ou n C

ag h ©

Ar m

Hares should not be slaughtered on May Day.

McParland.

fit±~

(oont•d).

restivalL.

Mid Summer eve Mid Summer Eve there•d be bonefires but they have I mind an oul• woman who lived nixt us, an• the vanished. Ev never passed that she did not go out on the hill an• light a whin or a bottle of straw." Corran.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

~On

be a bonefire

on the night

Armaghbrague.

nt y

"When I was young theretd of Mid Summer s Even•

ou n

ag h

Ar m

"On Mid Summer :Eve there-fd be a bonfire with a torchall the young people wud be light procession ant music Thei-e•d a.lways be a few oult han' s too ,rJhotd wait there. till the crowd wud be gone, then they'd collect a halfburned turf or two an take the m home with the m to put on the .flax an•· corn crops •.•'

Tanderagee,.

Ar m

uThey used to have gr&at bonfires

here on Mid Summer

Ar m

Every hill Eve, but that has all passed. was olll7 a bottle of straw on a pole.,''

"There were bonfires

ago.

on the hills

had one even ir

Tullybrone

up to about 40 years

Cassidy, Tanderagee.

FestixaJa, [east gist , Peter and St. Paul,

29th June Carrick

(Carrigatuke)

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Pilgrimage to St . Patrick's Well at Armagh or to Patrick ' s Lough near Crossmaglen . Bonfires on the

such fires

ag h

Ar m

Ar m ©

ag h m

Ar ©

ou n

nt y

had a. cure

ag Ar m ©

and other high hills . "Ashes from in the m but what it was t forget .

st .

( cont ' d) .

Cassidy .

Ar m

ag h

Ar m C

ag h

Ar nt y

C ty

ou n

Ar m

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

•

Ar m

ag h

Ar m C

ag h

Ar nt y

C ty

ou n

Ar m

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Lo-9'.

~-1,,. Lady Day

Hibernian Celebrations .

Fg§.t:lyaJ3e

Hallowene

people to death 0 •

nt y

and frighten

w1th.ka.1l runts for horns, and straw ropes, used to parade on this night ssed 1n sheets

d Boys of ls

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

This season known as Summer's End or Holllntide.

Nuts burned

ag h

A cou-11+-eor boys would pick sJ.des or girl from the crowd until they boy another

ag h

had teams ..

Games were played.

each calling

Ar m

Doors and gates taken.

Ar m

Horses see ghosts on this night . .

this night the dead come back .

Ar m

ou n

dunked for around farms possessed of appl apples

\\o

Folk Tales from the townlands

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Armaghbrague, rush light resin slut

candlesticks

I remember the rushlight

nt y

mind the rushlights

made.

ag h

Ar m

but a· wee strip

That was left

do·wn one side.

Ar m

always at the fire

Ar m

the fat

the cam

The

fat.

an I then

as -well.

I saw

The wicks for them were made from

made too.

from old coats.

strips

sluts

but a broken pot did just

resin

to hold the pith

The cams were made by

dried ant then dipped again and again. the blacksmiths

fro m them, all

of rendered

an' it would be full

rushes wou.}.dbe dipped a_nd drawn through ..

When they

be a wee dish called

ag h

In them days there'd

together.

peeled

in the skin was carefully

were brought

people

stem then.

and fuller

ou n

they had a stronger

were the kind an'

The oul'

of the moon.

they were cut at the full thought

rushes

Strong full

in use here an'

Hop step and ·Lep, Hop, step an• lep was the great

game when I was a boy.

Ye hopped on one leg an' then took a step an' a lep. Who could cover the greatest

distance

Played on the roads or in a flat

wax the winner.

The boy

It was

field.

HJmgrygr:ass..L Hungry grass only grows on spots whereon a person has eaten Without dropping

crumbs.

ItI

Folk Tales,

(cont'd).

Ballymacnab,

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Cricket§ are lucky.

nt y

a house where death

I mind hearin

an oul

ag h

Ar m

ag h

Ar m

fendin

Ar m

an'

good to her,

old bit.

oul

till

wud be in their

as herself

An~ she wus the last

they left

An• what 1-TU.rgoin•

bid til l her.

war.

for,

at all,

one till

the country

do yo~ think till

an'

wur

go in,

for they'd

mouths till

thumped

she

wus always the chance that

them for there

she might not appear

~afore

a broom

residenters

An 1 when they

hearts

out till

slithered

sent the wee ones with milk an' male many a

heared many a crack they shouldn't. the dure their

ridin

the neighbours

for herself

But they wur always afeared

time.

an' none too sonsy at

bit

the same the wus come of oul

when she wus past

we'd hear many

chirpings

their

said she wu.s given till

·wus often

But all

stick.

follows , the

man say they ,,ror wise as Solomon

A Through-other

She wus a through-other for it

they be in

happened long ago.

that

a crack of things

that,

if we cud understan'

an• that

as night

true

That's

is.

ou n

day.

die nor will

They niver

are lucky.

Crickets

at all.

see the wee people here.

they went till

why they went till

An' she an• them bein'

the house to her. tell

her they

sich frien

s they

J\2-.

Folk Tales,

An 1 she up an• she says,

now.

Sure

she started

An 1 with that

the whole ·winter

till

cud ni ver thole

through

uwe'll

nt y

Says he,

without news of ye's".

nochl but ye will

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Says she,

yammer.

ye's".

die I wud without

it's

we may ni ver be back 11 •

says the spokesman,

uAn • 11 ,

(cont'd).

leave ye a sign

11 •

uAn, what will it ben, says she.

ou n

s bludy the water

Ar m

· bayte it

says he.

on the well",

Keep yer blinkers

"If we're

be u.

'ill

wus the en' of her.

for them an• that

ag h

loneliness

heart

ag h

_ An• bludy water it wus an' she tuk a brash an' died

Ar m

An• mind ye, all be it she was but a wee croul of a woman, she wusn•t afeared

of man or brute,

even in the bad times when

frien• s. ·

and her fairy

Ar m

it wus far from safe for a man till be alone, let be a woman. An• them that toul' me the story of her knowed all about her

The fairy Thorn,

In that iver,

field

though it

one that

over the road there Sure he tried

WU.sn•the thrown right itself,

Ant Larry McParland,

s wasting now.

caused it.

as many another

across

wus the finest

till

the field

can tell

thorn

he's

the

stub it down, ant

till

ye besides

the very road

meself.

An• now

it, but the it Will soon be down with the cattle -scratching an• it in as good div11 a one wud lay han• till it otherwise,

a fi eld a s iver wu.s.

\ 1-;;

(cont'd).

Foll\ Tales. The Banshee,

I niver

like a wee woman.

the

follows

this

very house.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

85.

nt y

wus in

an• Barney O'Toole

for our Arthur,

cried

us an 1 it

it arovn

heared

I've

too.

McParland's

It follows

it.

I 1 ve heared

heared

some kind of spirit

It's

say it's

them that

saw it but there's

That

too.

I'm thinkin',

and Finn,

The fairies

Ar m

ag h

cashel,

ag h

Ar m

ou n

mebbe a kind of the wee people.

say that

~ome the cattle

glen.

thi~ very loanin

An 1 there

till

·wur giants

many a day on this

very hill.

en' to an impident

foreign

hill.

he had to git

on the ditch

way till

here as well as wee people,

sure the wee people wur last.

Ayt ant he buried

when he

many a night

them pass on their

let

wud be bringin

Ar m

I heared me grandfather

giant

Fin MacCool he's An 1 it

that

self

the

but

spent

vrus here he put an

wus lookin'

for fightin•.

him in under yon stone on the brow of the

--·--------

r-----------~-------------------------. (cont'd).

Folk Tales, Cashel

The Ploughing of the Relig. wus in oul

Shure it

McParland's

for him, but nothin'

From far

saw.

corn ye iver

an'

near

An' he had the finest

happened.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

side wus afeared

the country

wus done an'

time it

see an' wonder at it.

they come till

ou n

nt y

far above The headswur as long as yer arm an' reachin' An 1 one evening An 1 it ripened. the walls of the Relig. An• he says, says he, himself an' some other wur there.

st come the morrow if help can be got • An' they But in the mornin' who wur with him promised till give a hand. - deil the when they got there sure it wus bare as yer fist

C tried

they niver

give them such

me - she's

the one had

seldom I listened

for I used

it again.

Ar m

a fright

An 1 it

- not even a stubble.

Ar m

corn or anything

ag h

Ar m

I 1 11 cut it

e mother tellin' An.1 I remember m_

think

the oul

Relig one evenin from steppin

till

the people wur crazy - of someone crossing An 1 tne music was so good he cudn•t keep

till

- but it's

stories

all the oul'

1•

it.

An' he jigged

till

long an• well

An• then he got the An' it fear upon him an' he hooked it as quick as he cud. t~ll

he foun• it

right

WU.sWell he wus able.

under he's

An• there wus me father's branches from the oul' She Picked them to light

fairy

feet.

sister

who tuk some dry

thorn at the foot

the rire

with.

But they flew right

out and couped her over an• sure it wus well "10l'se.

of the hill.

she met with no

trJ ·'" . (cont'd).

Fo]_k 1'.,q.les,

An' in Segahan river

wee bits

pots ye iver

saw, an'

where the river

- just

themselves

divides

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

they in the stones

they did their

the purtiest

Sure there's

washin'.

beyant,

Geordie Armstrong from Paddy McKee. Many a time I have seen 1

very farm on the groun

ag h

Ar m ©

ag h

Ar m

the bank of the glen.

her till

Ar m

They spoke ill

she wus till have left

on an'

soon they found

An 1 in it

of wee ones,

An• she .begged them till

wudn•t.

a shough in

An 1 they held

wus a wee woman, an• a houseful of milk.

be coaxin'

an• they grabbed

she reached

in a wee cabin under the hill.

themselves

the cow.

an' niver

there

a taste

lave her the cow, but they

to her an' toul

her for in the mornin

rest

An 1 when the

they caught her goin'

an 1 swung_till

· her tail,

the byre she wud always

~md be comin 1 till

One night

disappear.

stannin'

you're

time.

there wus a cow in me grandfather's

of the cattle

washin'.

The Cabin under: the h.illi

ou n

On this

saw the fairies

people

nt y

them an' many a time the oul

her it wus wicked

An' sure they might as well

she ~ms dead at the stake.

I I 2. (cont'd). Tge Fairy Me father

wus hoardin

the m that

sate an• the purtiest

ye iver

he put it back.

ag h

Ar m

It wus lookin'

Ar m

others

we got but a fright.

in hundreds. too.

did hear.

till

Playing

Sich clappin

They had a fife

for them" that

falls

one night.

the short

an' the wee people vrur

of han's

An 1

there

wus

an' merrymakin' _ye

an' a fiddle

an' mebbe the

to go near.

under the spell

s music are goners completely.

It 1 s

for a dance we wur but

games they wur.

best of a band - but we wur afteared

spot,

sure it wus gone.

We wur ta kin'

the loanin'

cut over the fiel'

people

LQQking for a dance.

a thing

it quickly

An 1 he marked the

day when he looked for it

many a long year ago.

niver

An•

but when he got home the oul

I remember myself an' three

step-dancin'

it.

Cladybeg.

there

saw beside

ou n

ag h

Ar m

an• the very nixt

divil

An• he saw a cobbler's

had it.

he put it,

people wur so afeared

in the Religg one day - he wus

wee last

nt y

into he 1 s pocket

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

till

sarvent-boy

Last

We footed

of the wee·

I13. (cont'd).

FQlk Tales.

Cladybeg, In the morning it was stones

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

ou n

ag h

Ar m

sich a night's stay till

till

than ·have _the wee people think

partly

because

Ar m

rather

of the crack they'd An 1 indeed

ant that

mornin'

though

an'

lavin's

s a·s true

jaws.

An 1

an•

them cornaptious,

had, they agreed till

in the mornin

and doubles

it.

as I tell

wus stones,

of money.

their

crossed

a bite

but divil

they

sport

There wus lashin's

spoke them kindly.

of mate an• drink

present

long John

Ar m

the fairies

how he an'

till

But they wur afeared

iver had.

An' hell

above.

forth

fairy

tellin

from a wake wur axed to a dance in the

comin'

Williamson

nt y

shoe leather

iver trod

I mane them that's

the time.

of Corran beyant - as dacent a man as

Stevenson

Robert

now are

But bedad it vru.sn1 t always so, for I mind

like you or me. oul

are about ye all

that

the sort

do be goin

that

of fairies

Sure the only sort

Cladymore

on thi5 very ro~d it It wus a coul

an• frosty

I only heared

signs of bein•

worse.

the man well.

The night

straw in his

praties

tak1n• the frost.

evenin'

wus frosty

bappeneq. a)l

tell

the night

of it,

showed

but I knowed

an• he wus out late

burnin'

to k.eep them warm an• save them from On this

an• me 1s now. He wus goin

very road it happened - where you 1

home an' met a wee man an' woman

l l't (cont'd).

Folk TalesL

the wee man said,

had yer supper

yet?"

nt y

for the pratie-fiel

said he,

thing

he seen after

ou n

before

just

I left

home

1 ".

of bread atop of it.

a griddle

said he, "Mebbe ye haven't

nr had,

An' the first

An' when

Bu~ he said,

them an'

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

they got there

He toul'

An• he did.

of the road".

u1ave us a bit

they said,

Clady Chapel.

wus till

who axed how far

that

an 1

wus a wee fire

An 1 the wee man rayched

for

Ar m

Good nightrr,

Donaghy 1 s below.

got till

an' niver

stopped runnin'

An1 when he put he's

han'

till

in he's

Ar m

sure he only had a stone.

pocket

ag h

Ar m ©

an' -bid them

with of bread an 1 broke it in two an' give it till him But he put both in his pocket for indeed a silver half-crown. ate the bread • . An 1 he thanked them both he wus afeared till a farl

TAe time§ are changed. used ·till

The very childer in the heel

the hill

be afeared

of the evenin

1 •

till

daunder on

An' no wonder.

Sure

ghs ready it wus said the wee people wud be dukeing in the shou Many a mallyvogin I got myself because of them. An' till. themselves wudn1 t munch a bite once darkness sure the cattle gubs. Home had come. Ay, divil a blade wud they let in their they'd

ramp as far as they cud.

Sure it wus quare altogither.

to the wee ones they think your God, ay, the times full of whigmaleeries - or mebbe worse. will come again. are changed. But it 1 s speyed -the fairies

An• now

ye mention fairies

115" (cont'd).

..... Folk Tale-@ wus an oul

Jhe

ou n

ag h dog.

ag h

Ar m

When that

till

nothin'

wusdone

ti .11 the bottom,

take it. away. about it.

Me father

John McKee who is living

home the cattle

wud

the robbers

of the backs of the wud roul'

the butter

villans

down the

'41Udbe wai tin'

An' the people of that house wud know

Th~ wee people owned it

heared them.

Lep.

the market of

till

free

where other

TneFairy

an' dances in it.

is a

hillside

not one

It's

of butter,

of firkins

bits

set uoon them an• cut the firkins ponies.

murdered in

side of the road is the Butter

Long ago when the .people wud be goin' Newry with their

of call

about it an 1 the worst of all

An' on the other

place.

Ar m ©

wur often

is if they wur worth the killin'.

ghost but many that's

.I:

that

It wus a place

parts.

in these

days but the travellers

in the oul'

headless

lep

too long aroun'

nt y

has a bad repute

that

Butter

be stayin'

A wudn't

it,

niver.

an' mebbe they'll

who said it

gmnption or sense

of bones without

harl

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

But it

Fort.

an' wur for iver

heared

till

Once they nearly

this

an'

houlin'

saw them.

balls

An-i!J oul'

very day both saw an•

had him away.

when they come upon him.

He wus bringin

An1 he wus hard

\ G.

(cont'd). but he got a grip on the tail

to escape,

put till

of a cow an'

sure he .wus saved. Indeed it

an' purtiest

s the smallest

nt y

leg that

day.

ag h

ag h m

A crowd of hares

Ar m

of he's

wus

An' it

ou n

C h

Ar m

Drumconwell.

but

niver mended an' he wus lame for the rest

night.

gone.

he tuk a pain in he's

he dug till

only a spadeing

saw.

be mortal

touched

that's

Pat Rafferty

be oul'

once, an' that

iver

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

An' well might it b~, for it wus niver

fort ye

They used till

used till

sit

jist

gather

in the wee forth

there

an• even the agrue

at 11

Ar m

Me gran 1 father that cud ·see them well wud luk the other way. He saw the lot of himself went in once when they were there. them in the centre

the sheugh of the fort.

were back on the rampar. one night

mornin

vrusn 1 t in bed.

As soon as he left

He was sorely _bothered

he borrowed a gun an• let

as Yer here the nixt aroun• that

but when they saw him they

slipped into

of the ring,

there

them have it.

was hardly

they '

be them an' An' sure

an 1 oul woman

(cont'd).

Folk Tales -•

-Drumconwell,

them talkin

nt y

of a hound

ou n

He could never bear the sight

near the oul

ag h

he hardly

Ar m

reached the hounds than off they went in full and roun

he foun• himself

_set upon him.

hard ant well, day he could

but at:ast never

An 1 they

they let

bear the sight

for hunting.

He no sooner

cry and they tuk

about tpe countryside

in the oul

fairies

at long last

lived

there

at the prospect

dress.

tuk time till

him backwards and forwards

forth,

a pack of hounds in the field

house and wus so overjoyed

Ar m

to find

night

weakness

ag h

He woke up one fine

of a hunt that

ago who had a great

years

Ar m

In a hous_e on the roadside

at the side of his

but always

laughin',

an'

see them they wud be gone.

till

a man some fifty

Many an'

many a time she heared

a weaver an• often

days lived

at work on her loom.

the fairies

at night _she heared

when she tried

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

in the oul

Near the forth

loom

gn tpe

Fairies

pulled

forth.

his hair

him go an'

of a hound.

till

until the

An 1 there

and beat his

him

dying

1\i (cont'd).

Farranmucklagh..

man~

The headstrong

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m something

one day the cows wur breakin'

nt y

a·han• on one of the gentry

he niver

ou n

ag h

Ar m

gentry

The finest

place.

Three of them made a chapel

are there.

many a time.

there

days an' Mass wus said

over it

do be trampin'

Ar m

for the blessed

steps u.p an' a place

cattle

below an' he wus a

The Fairy Glen

It wus aye a gentle

the country

He 1,ros threw

overed.

the river

in till

stop a

till

very day.

ag h

Ar m

~one man from that

the scrubbery

righ:t through

An' he laid

tarrable.

bushes to cut a branch

But sure he got a fall

gap.

man.

him, wus aye a headstrong

God rest

Me grandfather,

The bushes are hundreds

- it's

_Ye cud sit

are in the spring. iver wus an• not git

altar,

in the oul'

wee

T~ere wur three

but now sure the

hard till

of age, an'

of years

bushes

keep them off

a purty

under them the wettest

it.

they

sight

day that

spot or jap of rain.

Greed for land. The Boyle's \I/Urfrien'

in Farlagh

s of me ovm too.

beyant . wur greedy for lan

An' they broke up a gentle

bye they had bother in ploughin th eir two ho:i;ses, as good bastes

1 •

An' they

place

for

An• the very next mornin•

as ye'd fine

in the whole of the

their country, killed their selves be runnin' away an' breakin' An• th a t par t oft he Boyle's went to clean necks 1n the glen.

In (cont'd). Farranmucklagh,

horse,

till

their backs.

cow or calf

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

soon they had neither

an'

desolation,

nt y

The Bonni§ Wee Woman.

A mind me aunt an' me - I wus the . wee nipper for water,

ou n

the river

down till

An' me an' me aunt,

That wus sixty

ag h

at all.

legs wud carry

as their

saw at all,

saw.

an' there · on the other

me uncles.

the house an' toul'

ag h

come as fast

Ar m

her, run back till

bonniest wee woman ye_ iver

then - goin'

side ,rus the

well me an'

An' off they

them, but not a hate

years

they

ago or more, an'

she

Ar m

The cow that

wus the size of a wee one of two or three.

11ved in a cave,

There wus once a cave near till

Thorn, an'

days a wee woman wus seen in an' about it.

often in the oul'

the Fairy

An• she had a cow, an• the cow wus for iver grazin' field, but no one cud iver to the cave.

git near it,

for it

in the

always went back

,~o (cont'd).

Folk Tales,

Fallen Angels,

nt y

about

reached

stuck in the sky an' niver in our prayers

wur fallen

passion an• He cleared

angels,

an' that

some

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

the wee people

Some said

but I can't

them all

out,

the groun

remember. because

1 •

There's

something

The Lord was in a

they wur so i mpid ent

ou n

ag h

Ar m

But He calmed in the Thought they wur as goqd as Himself. in why some are still middle before they'd all fallen an' that's only that It•s harm they'd do till Ireland too, membe, the air. like.

The Fairy whip

Ar m

Latmacollum,

ag h

they _hope to get back to heaven some day.

another McIntyre had the farm then an' he held it with An' he used till pitch buttons and Where Bertie Gray is now. an 1 many another. marbles on the bridge, night a~' mornin' - he day before Themornin• the whip was foun', it was a wet night the foot marks an' an• the whole road was covered with their wee An• like. blud. An• there was the whip, bludy red as ye toul he shouldn't. McIntyre lifted it an• it all blud though he was

!n• do Ye know he nearly

died after.

) '2..\

Folk Tale~.

(cont'd.

snadill , Lisnadill are lucky.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Crickets

is lucky but aisy huffed.

Crickets

at night

who come home late

nt y

suppin 1 he' s milk an I porridge. .

ou n

h ag

ag h

Ar m

come back an' all

Ar m

his luck went with them.

Tanderagee.

the house and niver

an' left

riz

An 1

ag h

Ar m

with it before he cud be seen again in it~

to the tailors

the crickets

He had till

coat.

But

of clothes,

bits

sure the whole of the back was cut out of he's

An 1

in the fire.

an' all

when it come Sunday an' he went to put on he's

the crickets

He wus rea££-yangry he wus.

he grabbed the tongs an• shoved crickets

an·~ foun• all ,

he's cailey

I heared of a man on

Elf shot,

Cows were sometimes elf-shot

He'd take a bit of kindled

cud cure the bother.

when I wus wee.

I mind a man

turf

from the

!ire be the tongs an• move it from side to side an• say a bit a prayer.

soon better.

It wus then put under the cow's nose an' she was

1iz. . (cont'd).

Folk Tale~, TanderagLee He could get no milk, A man in Granemore cud get no good from his

of silver

in till

the byre.

nt y

ou n

She wus lame after

ag Ar m

As it

ag h

I mind my father

come out he blazed

got away, but the country

hit it about the hips an• it

wus Jane Hanlon.

He watched an' he saw

for colpher.

night an• a han'ful a hare slip

He put a charge in his gun one

of the milk.

the best

Some body

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

wus takin

cows.

Tally

Sticks

sayin'

that

at it.

said it

anyhow.

long ago the workers kept Tally

days she worked for a bachelor

t_he days an 1 half

cheat her,

till

Ar m

But he tried

Ar m

ag h

tell He used till Sticks because few of them cud read or write. of a girl who kept one an 1 made long nicks an• short nicks for man near this.

till

so she threatened

law him.

Sa1.d he, nsure what wud ye do that for, sure ye wud only be It may jist as well stay with bringin•· it back to me some day?

me nowtt•

But she wusn 1 t aisy fooled

with them promises.

She knowed well

She tuk him to Coort an• she went she in the box with her Tally Stick an• the judge believed her an• . got her money. My father was a witness an' some of the neighbours Shewent barefoot to Coort but she put on her 1 lastics at the en'

he'd no notion .of marryin

of the town.

At that

girls at turf-makin'

her.

time the bogs wud be full time and they'd

all

of barefooted

have white bonnets.

McCreesh.

113. (cont'd).

Folk Tales._

Tanderagee.,

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

will be jumpin

moan about it. the ditch

nt y

uGod help him 11 , said she,

rather

thah ·meet her.

ou n

dacent body a daughter-in-law

C one.

milk many a time.

it with just

it was well moist you poured scalding it alone

for twelve hours.

You took

water on it.

It was a right

for milk and many a one seldom had anything or Porridge.

People

enough water to cover it.

You left

She was

a saint _from heaven.

you how to make it.

I can tell

Ar m

some oatmeal and steeped

Andafter

it would just

then.

use it

Ar m

When I was a boy I drank Bull's had till

to · a

Cassidy.

ag h

to plaze that

ill

Ar m

have been the same if he had married

If I had my way

But sure,

likre that".

body

Ivery

a quare affront

It's

set a toe in the house.

she'd niver

to one

married

a woman whose son was gettin'

I well mind hearing

make a great

women.

are not always sonsy - especially

Red-head people

else

Then

good substitute

at times for

tay

Cassidy.

I knowed a man that

had nothing to live

reared

a family

on so the Graham's let

in the Hatter s Bog. him squat there.

He placed the - sods in rows cut sods and built -himself a house. like bricks and drove pointed sticks through them to keep them from 811 It had only one bay and a broken wooden barrel for a PI>ing.

chimney. I knew another

such house that

one had almost

to crawl

J.2.L\

•

(cont'd).

Folk Tales ... into an' an oul

there

man lived

alone.

He just

lay on a lock

There was no door only whins or heather. ed while they were lived Both houses are gone now - they only last rushes or mebbe scraws. in. The thatch was anything - grass or Cassidy.

nt y

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

of straw on the floor.

Tullybrone ,

By~iness

of his own,

road

he footed we111•.

"Nate

murdered him with steppin'

it out.

it,

the more they yelled,

Chokin'

with thirst

"Nate Coat,

an 1 there

s. t]An 1 t Coa it vru Coat" [ Nea

An' the better yer doing it

he wus, when they offered refuse

him

it for he wus no temperance

But sure if he had he wud niver

te11 the crack.

what they wur - but they

for he suspicioned

whiskey an' hard put to till

looney.

wur goin

down the whiskey an'

Conran left

An' he had a bye-name -

him dance.

they nearly

1 •

an' the fiddles

made

goin'

git

till

dancin

an'

wus playin'

Ar m

It wus lighted

distance.

tried

Ar m

ag h

Ar m

ou n

out one night on Sure in Granemore above Pat Conran wus lic house in his way, business of his own. An' there wus a pub a party, an 1 he not be ght cau wus he it h reac cud he but before 1 had a jar of whiskey, knownin 1 \lno they wur or what. An they An 1 they all went along the an• for pace sake, he carried it. a house a wee bit off it, at no great till they come till

have got back till

(Cont'd).

in, Tullynagin The~ gQt no KQOdof he~ after .

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

An 1 it

it.

foun•

there wus a houseful

of childer,

ag h

or so they wur toul

Ar m

faver,

ou n

house now down, they

an ' some of them ill

said her milk

an'

the cow wud be left,

ag h

the McGaughey 1 s wud have it away .

an 1

wus being milked,

The people

1 •

in an oul '

An' there

the way to Ballymanab.

nt y

all

followed it

':.'US

an '

bein ' tuk,

they saw it

One night

tuk from the m at times.

the cow

that

as t he Gospel,

it• s as true

supposed, indeed

wus

an ' it

had a cow on the Cashel,

The McGaughey•s

wid

the

in the house axed that But no

wud increase.

An' away they tuk her but the

Ar m

Tullyvallen

Ar m

got no good of her after.

mind the fairies,

don't

but I do mind Dan Molloy ~ho lived

I don•t mind the fairies

sweetheart

wus near till

an 1 that

the river

cross

her he be till

the one where the ghost is .

till

in the house nixt

A.n• many a time he toul I WUdbe takin

·siJC nights

1'lell that .

· n• t ime

annoy them.

save me legs .

a voice wud say,

An I I wud say,

An• I always respected till

Said he,

it he 1 s self.

Mebbe your cattle

t night

An 1 the

aisyest

"Dan, ye cleared

"Och! ay,

the.thorns

see

An' sure as yer there

wud be t h e thorns.

out of seven,

An' till

bushes .

near the gentry

cut till

the short

Place ti· 11 b e crossin

ago .

a ce ntury

He had a

an • go me wayo.

for it's

mortal

wud bog in a_drain

unlucky or worse .

(cont'd). of takin'

the bad because

any a good man went till

Many a ti me I heared

that

story.

nt y

Me brother-in-law,

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

wit h t hem kind of bushes.

liberties

hi m that

once with the wee people.

of Newtown, had a venture

awful an' trampin'

An' he poor man wus fair

branches

ag h

with cutting

ou n

Ar m

beyond anythin g .

somethin'

wur breakin'

cattle

Ar m

But the very first

himself,

he said till

down the crops

stop their

for the best

or mebbe two from the oul

lop a branch

missedn.

ag h

he wus so late,

lon g last

He wus out with a bill-hook

Sure the

bothet'with

over the place till

all

Stitt

to oul'

wus caretaker

capers.

of a day, an 1 at . said he , "I'll

thorn - they'll

chop he give there

them an'

niver

wus a tarrable

out come the billy-hook

smothered in bludl

An' he moan. He looked everywhere but there wus nobody near. thought he 1 d be safe in broad dayli ght so he hacked it again an• With fri ght at what he had did. boun• it up with splinters. as iver.

An• he wus fair

tuk

So back he put the branch an•

An' in a day or two it wus as well

s a marcy he didn't

cut if off.

12-7

The stories maynot be St Patrick and the Bull

all

pushed over during the night

wus very annoyed an• cursed the bull

An' Patrick

p be day.

an' tore for miles

roun• but whether it wus killed

nt y

ou n

wus good at it be all

Ar m

He killed

ag h

Ar m

She soon died of it.

with him for capers

way.

till

people toul'

him.

An'

an' drew the chariot

But God wasn't

He tried

over

always pleased

it once on a man too

But the ; stories

That

may not be

them anyhow!

should have · been a lesson

that

an' the wheels did no damage.

Ar m

but God raised .the groun' The oul

sort.

of that

his sister

the horses

ivery time she riz he turned

He'd

accounts.

An' ride over ye

on ye an• curse ye for little.

too if he tuk the notion.

cud curse3 in the oul'

the way the _saints

The same Patrick

true.

remember.

It wus wonderful

her again.

be Patrick's

The whole of Armagh was after

curses or died of a temper I don't

It raged

it.

an' it went mad.

ring his bell

set

Patrick

that

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

The bull

days.

Armaghbreague

successors at Armagh were capable of doing so on Archbishop Prene's Register under date March 5, ro vocation. 61 1 contains a particularly vjJjjictive example wherein the walking, riding, arties were "cursed standing, sitting, fling, sleeping, waking, eating, drinking, bread, liquor, etc. and in all leeks, onions, garlic esh, fish, butter, ~~her occupations from the sole of the foof to the crown of head, at the same time being excommunicated by Book ' Belll, and Candle.

3. Patrick's

When I wus a boy it

is buried

self,

nt y

very day.

days an' the oul'

ou n

ag h

on Carrigatuke.

very

in Ballyrnacnab wus made be that

Track

people always had

They said it went clane mad when Patrick An 1 the dancin'

tried

of it put

an• roarin'

ag h

this

Ar m

it that the Bull's

settle

chased The marks under the Grey Stone.4

till

are on stones

That was in the oul

animal.

an' me that

he toul me brothers

often

feet

of its

days, mebbe indeed the one that

bull of the oul'

Patrick he's

the Moore's

SammyMorrison who was herd till

An' it's

Lisnadill.

be on the mountains

often I'd

wus

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

above wi' oul

even Patrick.

It frightened

II.

Ar m

an' no w,onder for the fear of God in the whole countryside, sure ivery night it wud be wreckin' all that Patrick hed built

Ar m

site!

WUdbe on the fine

something in oul'

The bull Carrick an• lit frightened

That's

stories

even Patrick

Armagh

an• mind

or they wudn1t be toul.

went mad, ay, completely at Ballymacnab,

bull

if the story is true

Ye there's

Ah! sure only for that

beyant.

be day on Carrick

crazy.

An 1 he riz

an' the noise wus awful.

an• he _gathered

the country

at It

from far

an•

near, an• they slew the baste an' dragged him till Corran •• An• th An• they dug the ey fetched the biggest stone they cud find.

4. A standing stone that figures in local folklore. by 5. One of a three hoof-indented boulders linked Patrick from with the bull that tradition Carrigatuke.

drove

ut the stone on top they were so afeared

again.

he'd rise

An'

we niver

of him rising

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

we wur so afeared

when we wur childer

An 1 they

wus an' they dumped him in.

iver

e deepest hole that

Patrick

ag h

bate the bull

roun

Armagh he wus fair

Ar m

till

him

dancin

ag h

The bou.11 Patrick

bother on Carrick

bate the bull

Ar m

III.

Corran.

ou n

nt y

went near the stone at all.

· Say 1 s he till

angered.

four pins an 1 ,.swirled

Ar m

him, but when the bugger followed

all

ball

roun• the town an• iverywhere

They're

plain

left its marks.

another

himself

it into the sky. · When

it come down again it bounced leek an ingy-rubber hill till

It give him

at long last.

who's the master hereu an' with that he

"I must show the baste

grabbed it be its

at long last.

till

from one

it fell

be seen in many a place still.

There•s marks at the Navan6 itself and in a couple of places on the way to Newtown But the bull couldn't have been the divil as some people would have it,

for feth the oul'

boy's here yet1

Ballyheridan.

6. Navan Rath.

7. Lisnadill

and Ballymacnab.

13v.

-:✓IV. And Patrick

sorry.

was real

wus sore tormented

It wus in the days of Ushen an' Patrick

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m back from the lan

An' Ushen wus jist

the next morning.

where he might have been livin'

niver die,

An 1 that's

better.

nt y

liked Ireland

ou n

Ushen on he's

only that he

still

that1

8 it all side of Carrickbroad

Sure it wus on the other happened.

on the Brague wud be down

be building

he'd

that

for iverything

big white horse was careerin

up the

what she cud carry an• not be burdenin'

ag h

filling

be after

Ar m

mountain when a woman with a bag of turf • - bad luck to her Why cudn I t she anyhow for it wus the greed of her caused it. load?

Ar m

worth it an' more like How an• so iver, he

some are not.

be slicing

till

wussafe

sure Ushen forgot

be after - droppin

on he's

a long story

wus the harm.

short,

horse only so long as

he .• s legs on the groun 1 an• dovJn

he hopped an 1 helped her up with the turf och anee, that

the cause

An• mebbe some of them are

still.

of many a heart-burn

he didn't

But sure all the sorrows of

come be the weemin' an• if ye axe me they're

Ireland

Ar m

self with the lazyman•s

her-

on her back.

Ushen soon felt

him an• down he lay upon the hill-side.

An'

the death upon

An 1 the woman who

Berry9 or some like her, ~as mebbe the Cally [Calliagh]

went away~

8. A town.land many miles away, on the Armagh-Louth border.

9. One of the chief figures around Slieve

Gullion.

in the folk-tales

centred

-ff-

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

on before

talked

An• Patrick

nown.

fedie

can have the

times

Ushen urtts sorry

yerself

Sure it's

I am to see ye so wake now. wish three

till

An• says Patrick

it, an 1 up he goes.

about

along an• he heared all

wus passin•

An' Patrick

nt y

to him of heaven but Ushen wusn•t in much of a bother. Says he, HAre there houn•s and baygels there?".

ou n

a onett says Patrick.

"The divil

at all

there

says Ushen, an•

wus sore put about for he wus takin'

111

Tween you an' that

Ar m

Says he

to be breakin

Brague I 1 m like

brute

of a bull

on the

ye bury me on Slew

ye bury me high an 1 dry an• clap a stone or

two above me".

till

Ar m

an• will

me heartn.

An Ushen had a wish-: says he uwill

Gullion,

a likin

him.

ag h

Patrick

ag h

Ar m

lfWell, I 1 m not goin'

"Deed an• I w111u, says Patrick. Then says Ushen nFor me last

wish 1 1 11 have me strength

Give me back my again till I take a look at yer bull. st rength an• I'll rid ye of him 0 says he. Ant Patrick says nrise me boul 1 boy an• be after doin Yer best.u

An• Ushen went an' sarched for the bull an• when he foun• it he struck

Stitt

it a mortal

as you like.

box in the face that

An• it's

buried

knocked it as

on a mountain

somewhere

-10-

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

But sure he woke no more.

It•~

nt y

ou n

me an• $Omeothers

Ar m

as ye like.

Ar m

s the grandest

Sure I niver believed

An1 there it

footed it down.

I saw it with me own two eyes an• Sure the

scenery ye iver saw.

marks of the baste 1 s cloots are as plain th ey wur when Patrick himself wus here.

nothin

an• there's

Armagh like,

ag h

ye it

was real

An 1 Patrick

The Bull's Track,

touch it the whole world over.

wus as plain

ou.11

An1 they brought him back till

him there.

on the way till

meself untii

I tell

ag h

Ar m

sorry.

he wus.

Usin 1 it for a blanket

in the . skin of the baste.

an• buried

there he wus asleep

destroyed,

as like as not he wud be totally

Slew Gullion

look for him, thinkin

come till

An 1 when Patrick

himself.

till

like a Christian

eaguea stone above it, the Armaghbrwith

near till

day as

blessed

this

An1 that•s

Years gone by, none but them as has the larnin

so many

can tell.

Ay, many a time I heared the story of how the Bull riz on the An• Brague an• niver touched earth till he lit at Ballymacnab. th en he riz again an• came down on the side of Navan Rath. he back an• he leps on another

Wentclane mad. th

in Lisnadill.

~ after An..'

An• the country up an• slaughtered

him.

An•

that

An•

buried him on Corran, an• there he lies under a · lump of a stone. An1 some say he wus no bull at all but the very oul• ey

div11 himself

- an• mebbe he wus.

Who knows?

-11-

by the

saint

built

nt y

ue above. Armaghin the Armaghbreag be

stopped the building

It wus the one that

above.

Carrick

wud be undone in the mornin'.

But sure it lepped

Ballymacnab an' wus in such a temper it

An• in its anger it went right over the

ag h

Ar m

lepped again.

So it back again but it

hill where Armagh is the day.

ag h

Ar m

An• the strong ones among

Ar m

the baste near the Corran above.

stone in Ireland

largest

but a wicked spirit

bull -at all,

sorts sent to torment Patrick

An' the

the . top, for sure

wus drawn till

it wus no ordinary

An 1 they

the country roun•.

It frightened

gathered from far an• near. them killed

of it wur somethin

An 1 the . roars

knowed it was bate. tarrable.

At last

ou n

till

he's

WU.slaid an• the stone above it,

self.

an• there

very day on the mountain for all till

night all that wud

Night after

a guard was set an' the bull was seen. from there

jumped off

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

I heared tell .of the Bull that

often

It's

and the Bull.

St. Patrick

VI.

see.

An' there it

it is till

this

Qf theterr;ltQr~ and some adjoining townlands

otes on the antiquities Ballymacone

Ballymacone

I. Armaghbrague.

JJ...f

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

Territory

ou n

Corran

ag h

II.

Ar m

nt y

Repute .d site of an ancient highest point, Carrigatuke, with the Red Branch Saga and St. Patrick's cairn associated adventure ·with the bull. church-building chair. Rude stone seat on summit knovm as St. Patrick's Old name of Location of an annual blayeberry pilgrimageo and from Cairn Hill to south of Carrigatuke district Newtownhamilton was Moin Fuad - authority Mr. Arthur McParland whose informant was an old man born about 1830.

ag h

Irr. Farrananucklagh,

Ar m

stone marking A pillar-shaped The Grey Stone of · Corran. activities the burial- -place of the bull whose destructive of a church on Carrigatuke. prevented the erection states once Remains of an old "green roadJ which tradition ran from Emain Macha to Tara, -part of which was in use in as a highway from Armagh to the 17th and 18th centuries . Dublin. fort on farm of Peter Kernan. Single-ringed case of gold was found in this townla_nd in A cylindrical 1~33. See Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (Lewis) under in the Royal Wilde's Catalogue of Antiquities Lisnadill,and Irish Academy, p.89.

. Local]y called 11Farlagh 11 • The Fairy Glen on the farm of Arthur Boyle contains a Mass in Penal says Mass was celebrated on which tradition tltar The altar was rudely shaped of earthen sods and is ays. now much defaced and overhung by three large thorns. ~1:,elast McCone of . Farlagh died in October 1942 aged 85 years. is name was James.

rv• Lislea

Fort sho\im in this town.land on Maps of 1835 and then No,,.,.a site only on evidently in fairly perfect condition. followed says ill-luck Tradition of Mr. Samuel Craig. removal. he fort•s

farm

Lisnadill

nt y

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

forts (on the ed Contains t he re mains of two earthen-ring boulder linked d Menary and Moor far ms) and a hoof-indente , as well as a of St. Patrick and the Bull wit h stories 11 the Cast 11 • Linked d travel l in g eart hwork, commonly calleArm agh and locally with Navan Rath near by tradition ict·of believed to have been a boundary of the old distr ain Macha. .Em but very imperfect on Moor and Williamson Cast traceable far ms. in this townland was formerly for themill. but is now converted into a scutch- the of the corn or wheat was retained by The custom was knovm for grinding. Multure". which may be a corrupt form of

VII. Tullybrone ,

ou n

ag h

Ar m

Ballymacone Mill grinding of grain In old days part miller as his fee locally as mutter

VI. Tanderagee,

ag h

Ar m

1 s farm. A relic of the days Booley Hill on James Gillespie osed fields. before the hill was divided up into aencl robe of stening Was shown in the Johnston farmhouse ven chri in the house over a linen, made from flax grovm and ·wo · century ago. from have been in occupation of their farm The Johnton's ent house is said before the Battle of the Boyne and the epres Som old glass remains in to have been built 150 years ago. quit e clear and with not dows - greenish-tinged, win the an open 11 House ·had a canopy type brace over kitc Bulls 1 eyes". hen s and a hearth but this was removed in recent time . attic rooms Windows in gable-end light two ran ge inserted. 11Black Loft kno1,m as the Centre-room upstairs upstairs. has iagh 1 Call because it has no window. The Cuttingltingof the frame at this been discontinued -on this farm. Qui house.

rr • Tullynagin 1 o antiquities.

-y Adjoining To:wnlan~• s • Aughnagurgan,

nt y

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m t C © se y a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

burial places for which see the A group of three prehistoric Survey of Northern Ireland". 11Preliminary Tullynawood Lake Old road pas sing through this toi;mland byalso linked with tales and with pre-christian associated St. Patrick. 1592-1596, po246, The "Calendar of State Papers of Irelandu that Conor Oge show the name as Aughe Magoregan and record McCardill rescued certain kine there.

£• Ballymacnab

ag h

Ar m •.

• Ballintemple

ag h

Ar m

ou n

Single-ringed es Mcilroy. fort on farm of Jam Earthen-ringed 1 s Forth" Devlin and so Known as but partly destroyed. farm. the of owner 11 called in commemoration of a previous calle n O' O'NeillI s Fort d lly loca fort nged le-ri sing nd A seco Near it there farm belonging to Bernard Curran. situate·on local tales. is a Fairy Thorn that figures in manyboul der associated 11 The Bull's Track - a hoof-indented encounters with the Bull from Armaghwith St. Patrick's brague. of townland called Mass Garden in sub-denomination and .on farm of Arthur (Joe) O'Toole Carrickclay

Ar m

some habitation In the cutting of turf in this townland 11 coat or jacket of a sites were discovered, in one of which anda of a coarse texture very peculiar cloth, brown in colour dug out in like sacking or canvas was discovered. lost.It ·was it was found bits and the pieces were eventually slipper With The coat shapeu. footwear of a shoe or sorne leather they ston Isaac John ons and according to Mr. William had butt were 11wood or horn

v• Ballymoran

Hill. Greatly ~eputed church -site on hill knovm. as Kirk fort on farm of the Cunningham destroyed earthen-ringed arn11y, also a fort site on farm of John Hughes. V.

Cashel'-

"The ·enclosure or cashel, locally known as al-p :tone-walled lace a buri because of its use in former times as relig ht heig in ced Wall greatly redu children. ao~ still-born oses purp by the taking of stones for building within 1n Widthamber bead ever found in Ireland discovered th,:rgest

:rin •

-V-

VI. Cladyb eg ,

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C se ag ou M um h n us ty C eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

There was once a cairn on same hill but it has been It was probably situate in the field completely removed. knoi.•m lo c ally as ncarn 11 or in the adjoining field named Carnaeggit

ag h

Ar m

ou n

ag h

Ar m

nt y

Contains line of an old trackway linked with Emain Macha and Tara, that later became a well-known hi ghway continuing In the 17th and 18th century was the in use in parts. reco gni zed route from Armagh to Dublin and much infested by Passed through the Dorsey entrenchments, and highwaymen. affir ms that Brian Boru's funeral c~~e to Armagh tradition fro m Clontarf by this route, and that James II traversed it on his way to and from Derry in the days immediately · preceding the Battle of the Boyne A Barracks was erected here in 1700 in which a small party on their of troops were quartered to safeguard travellers way to a.Y1dfro through the hills of the Fews and to of highwaymen for whom the protect them from the attention At that time there was was somewhat notoriouss district Di Ditch an Inn near ·to the barracks kno1-m as the Black which probably took its name from the peak spoken of locally as the Black Bank . Tradition Cairn site on Dead Man's Hill, alias Cairn Hill says that the cairn was removed by the Synott family when building Ballymoyer House and that they had the then permission to dis mantle it~ Bonfires Lord Charlemonts on -the cairn in the old days on Mid summer Eve were lighted This continued until and there was music and dancing. about 50 years ago and the games, etc. were very similar to those taking place on Bilberry Sundays at Armaghbrague. green patch very The site of the cairn is now a circular free of heather.

Cavanakill

Cairn site on Cairn Hill in which, when the graves were being broken up some pottery was found and removed to . Ballymoyer House . sites found in the cutting of peat in this Habitation Informant Mr. Anthony O'Hare. townland. In 1930 when cutting turf a bronze spear-head was found by Hr_ Hugh O'Hare and at the same time a bronze palstave was dis covered by his brother John. The two brothers were The spear-head and sons of the above Anthony O'Hare palstave were found · within a few yards of each other.

Cladymore•

II.

rx. Drumconwell

ou n

nt y

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

This to,mland was formerly part of the lands of the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul of Armagh and contains the site of a gran ge chapel. Granted to Sir Toby Caulfeild in the early 17th century, therein and was given a patent for who founded a village · a Saturday market and two fairs in 1612. during the Site of a small friary probably established Civil War of 1641, possibly in 1644 or 1645 - see Friar Journal under Nay 1644 and January 1645. O'Mellan Fort sites on farms of Joseph McCullagh James Boulter, and a perfect miniature earthenand Patrick Vallely, ringed fort on the Raftery farm.

Ar m

ag h

Ar m ©

x. Dundrum-

fort on farm of Peter perfect earthen-ringed Donnelly and a greatly destroyed fort knovm as Rainey Fort" nearby. In this tovmland was found the only Ogham Stone so far found in Co. Armagh.

A very

Killyfaddy

XI •

Ar m

fort on farm of Mr. John Double-ringed earthen-ringed forts in immediate Two other -double-ringed Little. . vicinity.

Contains a very fine section of the so-called Dane's Reputed castle Cast on the Cunningham and Gray farms. Field known as the Fish site on · farm of Henry Price. are Pond Field, and another called the Graveyard Field probably relics of a grange chapel of the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul of Armagh, a building shown on the Escheated Counties· Map of 1609.

XII. Latmacollum .

Cast on farm of Mr. John Hughes. In Se?tion of Dane's this tovm.land the Cast is commonly kno·wn as the Rampar

XIII.

Tullyvallen•. Fina or the Fairy White Hill, the reputed abode of King Lir. Donnelly's Hill. Once surmounted by a cairn enclosed by a Shee

rin~ of boulders

or standing stones. Bog said to take its name from a battle Bloody

fought

there

-6in 1650-51 between O'Neill's troops and Cromwellian's under Ireton. Souterrain on Warmington farm. Harrymount. Cairn from which a Bronze age Food Vessel was obtained. • Cross inscribed stones in Tullyvallen Tipping on farms of Peter Donnelly and Henry Savage. Newtownhamilton village founded about 1770 by the Hamilton family who acquired 3,275 acres in the district by purchase earlier in that century. Hamilton's of Hampton Hall, Balbriggan and Hamwood,Co. Meath, present representatives. Corp of Irish Volunteers raised by Edward Tipping circa Yeomanry Corps in 1798. Copper halberd found in Tullyvallen Boy - See J.R.S.A.I. June · 1930 •

ag h

Ar m

Ar m ©

....

ou n

ag h ©

Ar m

nt y

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m t C © se y a o gh Ar M um un us m t C y ag eu ou M h m n u t C se y ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

l,Lto-

HOUSINGANDHOUSETYPES, CO. ARMAGH, Introductor_y.

of the county,

but a short

Barony of Upper Fews.

and resident.

ag h

represented

Ar m

houses in Ballymacone for comparative

used as illustrations

are chiefly

and its

purposes

surrounding

townlands, but

documentary material

relating

of Armagh, Orior and 0 1 Neiland has also been

Ar m

the Baronies

as early as 1264 and are still 1

ag h

The ground plans

of Ballymacone,

Registers

Ar m

Known as the precinct

ou n

Archiepiscopal

of eight townlands in the

from a sept of the McCones who appear in the

it derives

essa .y that had 1· t s origin in a

territory

nt y

survey of a little

study of the house types

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

This is not a comprehensive

examined. In the county generally

the old houses are being · 11 · the Orchard Country, replaced by modern homes, especia Yin a district embracing a large slice of countryside st retching

from Lurgan on the east Blackwatertown

of the county to Charlemont and

on the west.

I 1954 pp 132-150 - The 1. See SEANCHAS ARDMHACHA,' Vold its Ass~ciations with the Territory of Ballymacone an McCones.

of Ulster

At the Plantation

of the settlement

was the problem population

the pastoral

which had been accustomed to wander

were encouraged in it by their

indeed,

and,

nt y

kind of life

ou n

C ag

and the building

with disfavour.

Ar m

That,

places

and so deprive

quantities,

made the food problem a

in the various

incursions

by the English from

the Anglo-Norman invasion

the days following

the enemy of meat and

that at that period oats

were sown in very limited serious affair

into bogs, woods

with the fact

Ar m

coupled

agriculture

of houses looked upon

cattle

with their

ag h

butter.

safe

lands

for in war the native

was a shrewd plan,

to retreat

people were able and other

ag h

Ar m

was somewhat discouraged

Under those conditions

to an invader.

less useful

a method of making their

who saw in the policy

chieftains

that

seem to have been then living

of Ulster

the inhabitants

Many of

herds of cattle.

their

after

habitations

without fixed

of that part of

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

encountered

one of the grea .t difficulties

the end of the 17th century.

down until

The adjoining _counties

5t almo

of Louth,

Downand Antrim had by then been long colonized and planted f th umotes and baileys" e the successors O With strong castles . s but they made practically , first erected by those doughty warrior, is now county Armagh. No great that no headway in the territory foundations · arose within the or ecclesiastical Norman castles The county or occupation. t err1tory to mark their progress was in a state of great then, and for many centuries after,

unrest and the ancient of it that

English

resisted

it was often

but the Armagh and Tyrone

and thought,

English in life

for the Archbishop to resort

necessary

nt y

such a threat

ou n

of Armagh survive

a grim picture

of the 14th and 15th centuries,

Ar m

the church suffered

Registers

of the continuous

many indignities,

quarrels

in which

and in which the

on the church lands were often

Ar m

tenants

Archbishop's

of the Archiepiscopal

and provide

ag h

local feuds

Certain

before embarking upon

ag h

Ar m

new depredations.

troubled the o•Neills

days who preyed upon the church when

and sought absolution

arose

necessity

greatly

or 0 1 Hanlons of those

of order within the

excommunication in the enforcement diocese - not that

to such an extent that

influence

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

The portion

portions

f A rmagh suffered in consequence. o was situate in County Louth became See

we have no See Rentals for those years and no knowledge of the types of habitations on th9 Unfortunately

despoiled.

lands of the Archbishopric, were tenants

families

but the fact that particular nd11 time out of mi of certain lands 11 tenure tha n the creaght system, at

suggest a more settled least in so far as the church lands were concerned. O'Neill placed a curse In the reign of Henry VIII, Con d "learn the English as shoul Upon such of his posterity s" • At t.hat period there . e v1r.-c:.~i"fwi'-11 <M vf.JN~ language, sow wheat or build house l-lv>e.,~~lQ. f<r h the Castle of "1rt4.4 ~ere two O'Neill castles in County Armag ' A

I ~4. Gla ssdru mmond in the Fews, d es t royed in 1641, and t he Ca st l e gan (now known as creevekeeran), of Portnelli beseige d and taken in 1531 by the English

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n us ty C eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

1600, 2 states

April,

Samuel Bagenal in a letter

Sir

For instance,

nt y

burnt a good store

of the O'Nei e1-ll11 s.

factions

rival

amongst

disagreements

who were bro ught t here by

that

date d 28th

on the way fro m Newry · to Armagh "he

of houses

in the woods11 •

Henr y Bir d,

ou n

Commissary to the Army, who was with Bagenal on t hat occasion having, within fo ur miles of Armagh, refers to the soldiers

and brought

away many cows, garrans

1601, we have a further

Ar m

6th April,

it was a wonder to behold 3 On the and sheep ".

of such plenty

ag h

manner of provisions

wherein was store of corn and other

ag h

Ar m

to many houses

set "fire

notice

of an as sault of

Ar m

in Lough Lorean on which certai n hou ses were fired ua great house on the shore and ot her houses and afterwards 5 On the 2nd of the same month Lord Mountjo y' army also 0 • 4 Rawlaghtany where or ders t o miles marched from Armagh three to uburn some t went y fair rs Danve Henry Sir to given were Facts such a s these 5 timber housasu which he performed. defi cient i n such was county the that tend to disprove ·ng days of the 17th century. . Openl the in amenities

an island

2. S.P.I.

3. Ibid,

1600, p.148. 1600, p.172.

oryson's

pp.97-98.

Itinerary

5. I bid, Part II,

p.117.

( 1615 Edition)

l d part II, Ire an'

In the Carew M.ss.6 we have a description

were then being erected

that

house with three

An English

nt y

because of its

recognizable

ou n

ag h

Ar m

ag h

few gable-end

Ar m

comparatively

6. Carew

chimney are undoubtedly

chimney types remain, excepting in examples

but those that I have seen of the latter and the second fire-place

type have been remodelled

Further

for

Ar m

two bays,

or loft

and now almost a

identified

bay, or occasionally

in houses of a single containing

deserted

easily

is less

The second class

ruin.

long attic

I know of one such

gable-ends.

house near Armagh town, recently

districts

in certain

type can be identified

and small windows in its

of two to three rooms.

and consisting

wattles

and is easily

house with a chimney at the end made of

An Irish

1be first

rooms beneath,

an oven and a loft.

chimney, II.

in Ulster.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

of houses

of two types

references

and

modern intrusions.

from the same source disclose

Irish

barns of coples.

II.

Irish

houses of coples.

M.ss. 1603-1624,

p.94.

. 5 77 226 and 228. . pair of inclined 'fa 7. Carew M.SS. 1603-1624, PP• 7 , form of couple or beams on each rafters that meet at the top and tie and form the principa

An obsolete

the slope of a roof, -.~neo~ at the bottom by a si 8 r•xed 1 ar~ port of the roof. 1 P

and the somewhat bewildering

that the inha.bi tants

Co. Armagh, both English and Irish had ''built

of Charlemont,

the English manneru. 8

after

of coples

good houses

statement

There are

· Donegal, in the Calendar of State Papers - 1.n many of the Irish had ubuilt cople houses after

for instance,

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m n u t C se y ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

references

similar

Pale". 9

the manner of the English

trees

for themselves

local

Ar m

The earliest

"soon made

because sods and saplins

with rushes for thatch were at

and birch

ag h

alder

handu.lO

and booths

of ash,

on the Montgomery estate

ag h

Ar m

cottages

settlers

as those of the native population - in

ou n

Co. Down the settlers

by the British

as primitive

were just

nt y

many of the houses erected

· but that

There is no doubt, however,

census of house-types

that we possess

in the county is a 11General Survey of the Town of Armagh taken on ·the 20th hit September, 161su 11 a document of absorbing intere st , th0 ug The types shown may .t only deals with houses within th· e ci Y• roughly be divided

Ar m

a guide in the development of building

as under:-

creates. Little Creates. Forked creates. Copled creates. Long copled ereetes.

8. S.P.I. 1611-1614, p.127. 9. Ibid, p.123. lo. Montgomery M.ss., p.59. Archives, ll. Archiepiscopal

Little copled houses. Copled houses. Fair copled houses. Great copled houses. Long copled houses. Forked houses. Old houses. stone houses.

Armagh.

I 4 7. Somewere provided had gardens

with barns and stables

attached.

The term creaght connection

seems to have been first

with the pastoral

population

habits,

but it later

meaning and was used to designate

In the later

ou n

by the creaght

to the primitive

dwellings

covered with long turves

upon their

lands.

It has been

transportable

them on fresh pastures •. It is very

the framework of sueh houses being easill

ag h

probable that

was the only portion

Ar m

origin

tYPe of house.

ag h

mantled them and re-erected

came to have a secondary

when they moved to new grazing grounds they dis-

Ar m

suggested that

owes its

C built

who were somewhat

a particular

and boughs of trees,

made of wattles

nt y

sense it

used in

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

nomadic in their

and sods,

and most of them

removed.

To rebuild their

home each time the cattle

Ar m

a nuisance,

were so driven must have been rather but when one remembers that in the southern end of

tillage

that

fences are still

filled

loosely

have to be taken out and replaced during

and harvest

operations,

With stones,

the county gaps in stone field

more understandable.

the procedure becomes somewhat

· the second guide as to house-types in \ . survey made by Arthur half of the 17th century survives in a · \ . Co Armaghin the Brownlow of the Manor of Brownlow's Derry in • tion (which bears many Year 1667. From the document in ques earn something of the annotations of later date) we l . b ·1t on that property in the dimensions of the houses being ui ty feet long uildings were f or b Period 1666-1700. The largest One rather

useful

I ~ B. by twelve,

and eighteen

sixteen

had brick

All types

high.

nt y

case they were lofted

the walls

Ar m

ou n

high in those

with lime appears

there are no particulars

and

three feet

from the fact

te nants

that when certain

leases

they were compelled

as good as those they then lived in.

Ar m

casting

new houses

to be built

u stone

houses were already in bein g

were given additional

Ar m

to build

is evident

on the property

were ordered

ag h

on the estate

there is a

were not always completely

That similar

ag h

mentioned as roofing.

In some instances

In a few cases shingles were

materials.

limen as the foundations

wide, with walls nine feet

feet

or stone chimneys and in almost every

in oak.

that

suggestion

tYPe

A third

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

long by sixteen

feet

was twenty

With walls two feet

nine and ten feet h.lg•h

eight,

width with walls

The next measured eighteen, and twenty feet in

by sixteen,

in length,

feet

thirty

and ten feet high.

nine,

thick and eight,

feet wide

very frequently

as to interior

Rough-

but, unfortunately,

arrangements.

It is

that

a survey of houses within the Manor was now . ght still be found. Old m]. date made that some examples of that storey thatc hed t . f woine some_ and types houses of the smaller k to the late 17th b ac~ go may survive which still residences ys high, thirty t ore half-s a and two A few houses, century. feet long, by eighteen feet broad appear also. ·c in 1703 the Archbishopr1 of Ashe 1 s Survey of the lands on the See t Provides much general information _ on house ypes b divided into group s Roughly they may e Land s in that year. probable

' 1 9• . as under:-

I. Farmhouses of stone and lime well floored.

and parlours

. with good chambers

above stairs. t Houses, the walls whereof are and part clay Good rooms above andpbarl brick. stairs. e ow

III.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

Good stone houses with floors

II.

houses without upper rooms.

IV. Stone and brick

two storeys

nt y

V. Good stone houses

high.

VI. Small stone houses.

ou n

VII. Stone and clay houses.

who have each a small tenement with a garden, etc.

ag h

IX. Cottiers potato

ag h

Ar m

houses are mentioned

with stone

built

Unfortunately

trees.

on particular

On one

appears with a cowhouse. as well as orchards

there are very few notes as to Certain maps for this period

dimensions and no ground plans. surVive in the Archbishop's Registry delineated

cowhouses and turf-

a pigeon house.

are also listed

and corn-kilns

Malt houses

stables,

with occasionally

Ar m

farm na new ox-house and fruit

barns,

every case,

In almost

Ar m

VIII. Mud-wall houses.

on which houses are

farms but the drawings seem to be

conventional map decorations. According to some published p.410)

Hearth MoneyRolls (Tracts th there were 9,003 hear s paying

taJt in the county in 1712.

By 1718 the number had increased

on Ireland,

Vol. II,

to 9,586 arid by 1725' it had reached 10, 5'39 hearths, the following

year it had dropped to 10,5'31.

but in

Between the ,,.·

150. and 1790 the inhabited

latter date 12

ouses of the county had

doubled.

1750 onwards there amongst

of houses,

building

mostly

ag h

of iron

Ar m

area

been placed Arthur

are therefore on housing

effects

in position

to otherwise

quite

the windows, relics

outside

by robbers

was disturbed

and the

for which the county was notorious dwellings.

single-storeyed

The bars at present

on the back windows and th ey usually when new windows have even proportions original

to be found

in the

front

Young visited

journey

queer

have not since been

Many of the houses of that

Ar m

remain in their

give

disturbances

political

are mostly

Window Tax and that

days when the

this applies

buthis

show windows that were

ag h

later

sometimes

ou n

h ag

Ar m

period have bars of the

improvements in the form

houses.

proportioned

nicely

so-called

that

features

re-opened,

suffered

the

up to evade

architecturally

are interesting

however,

Such houses

of new windows.

and the end of the

date

nt y

Few of them,

as they have

built

us M

century.

houses of the

two-storey

that

between

were built

deal of re-

or more well-to-do

the larger

farmers, and many of the bigger district

was a great

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

From about

of the house. certain

did not bring

him

f co. Armagh in 1766, parst O to Armagh by the Fews so we that

he might have written

of notices area at that in t he and agriculture deprived

08 nd 12 • Beaufort ' P • Memoir of Map of Irela from Hearth Money Rolls of 1790 •

time.

Figures

Total compiled

1S1

of crops,

nformation on the rotation

is made of the custom of farmers

though mention

noticed

sons grow up and marry universally

when their

new mud cabins

farms with them, build

and less,

1arms grew less

nt y

economically impossible

and were no longer 1

ou n

ag h

Ar m

19th century.

ag h

in other

Ar m

less

other county in UlsterH.

well-thatched

of the labourers•

ashed walls,

cottages,

one as under: -

Coote in his Survey of

He specially roofs

of Ireland

are scarcely

poverty and filth provinces

display

mentions the white-

and neatly

enclosed gardens

and gives the expense of building

V 1• I 0

hovels that

to be found in Armagh than in any

Mudwork and plastering Roofing. Thatching and straw. Door and leaded windows.

13• A Tour of Ireland

of housing conditions

which most southern

tlisgust the travellers, and which is perhaps

parts

squalid

be seen here nor does that

often wound our feelings

to supply

sufficient

uthe miserable

that

804 comments on the fact

they became

picture

a pleasant

the county in the early

divide their

for them, by which means

eventually

until

their owners with necessaries. We have quite

but housing generally

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu

ittle

and

of linen

in the manufacture

re given for earnings

£3. 8. 3. £1.14. 1-½. £2. 5. 6. 11. 4-}.

162 •

at the s ame time

stating

that

some

day.

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

tt co ages were put together at a cost of fro m three to five pounds but of inferior material. Fences were well taken care of but there was a scarcity of gates, a feature that p ersists in some areas to the present

Shaw Mason• s Parochial

a rather

nt y the

Fews.

neatly

roofed with

foreign

ag h

Their

feather

manufactured

dwellings

ag h

are

as bog-oak which formerly

are mostly

inside of their

the cottages

and many of them whitewashed and

exhausted.

and blankets

that

thatched

timber

Ar m

them is nearly

. 1 ed in comp1

of housing in the parish

We are told

in general

account

ou n

of Ballymoye r in

pleasing

1816, gives

Survey of Ireland,

beds, quilts,

in their

is in general

supplied

sheets

own houses.

The

clean and provided with

someof their

houses

farmer and a The entirely debarred from luxuries. taken the place of the hour-glass a nd in .lled with cups, saucers, etc. cupboards fJ.

arranged with

rustic

taste

state of society

clock has universally

of a plain

Ar m

not

to the . comfort

essential

Ar m

everything

are common •

th roug h Co. Armagh in the ·n who were interested i late 18th and early 19th centuries, a nd the farmhouses of the th social conditions in Ireland agreed at ·th any other county in county did not suffer by comparison W1 th t in 182211 mentions a Ireland. Reid in his 11Travels in Irela nd Most of the

l4. Vol . I I, p.82.

people

w~o passed

Armagh and that

through

he spent some days riding

cottages

uhad a superior

conveyed

nt y

ag h

Ar m

stressed

ag h

the different

for

Ar m

description".

farmhouse see Figs.

in question,

or the above Manors, spinning wheels weaving

l5. p.158.

which is in reality

be noticed,

both a census

comments on the introduction

and the great

11 ,

a flaw

plan for an improved cottage

rental

was the "great

of a more respectable

of space for a loom will

The provision

of farm

in the want of separate

Ar m

For a suggested

year there

in that

members of the family

uto farm houses

that even extended

16 gives

the great

in a decrease

in the rental

or cabins

defect in common cottages

us that

and that

of food resulting

Another point

bed apartments

informs

were thatched

ou n

scarcity

es t a t e

. . 1818 of an a d.Joining

majority of the houses

stock.

beyond what is commonly found even in

picture.

a more comprehensive

they

and that

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C se ag ou M um h n us ty C eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

for the year

A rental

of neatnessu

in Tyroneu • l 5

order

those of a higher

was a great

degree

of comfort

an idea

the humblest

He found that

afforded him much satisfaction.

the excursion

and

and the

and survey

of double

want of looms owing to increased

16 • Su!~~YAof the Manors of Coolmalish,

Baleek, Hamilton• s Bawn Earl part of the property of Archibaldi of O rdgonnell, 818. er Novemb Surveyed by William Greig, Gosford

In 1825 the house of a farmer who had a large

or four acres of land and one small

seldom had more accommodation than a kitchen

food then of the lower orders was potatoes

room. The general

nt y

and oatmeal but there

ag h

Ar m

particulars

of small houses on the Gosford estate

Fews in 1837.

They make the walls

ag h

straw or rushes.

Ar m

feet at a time with mud and rushes,

The doors and windows are cut

layers.

windows cost the tenant

finds

sorts of wood for the roof.

each 11+feet

square".

Donaldson, writing

R 1ia:trtn

of Aeport of the State rthur Irwin Kelly,

lS. Binns Miseries

They contain

50/-.

These

The land-

or poles of other

two bays or rooms

1818, mentions nthat the houses

circa

in Upper Fews were generally

17.

some fir

in addition

lord frequently

the m two

them ten days to

allowing

out with a spade and the sides made dry and smooth. dwellings including

in Lower

and raise

solid

Ar m

dry between the several

own houses of clay and

their

build

"The tenants

account 18 gives detailed

later

ou n

A slightly

was more use being made of wheaten bread

than formerly. 17

the building

or attic

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

time people with three

At that

apart-

of three

and a couple of rooms with a loft

ments, a kitchen, above.

and consisted

comfortable

ground was generally

portion

built

in clachons

or clusters

p. 505, Examination of Ireland, Sovereign of Armagh.

and Beauties

of Ireland,

p. 157.

and

which were closed up with bundles of sticks

had two doors,

or a.s answered to keep out the wind and

alternately,

hurdles,

The whole was enclosed by a bawn or kind of pound to rain. their cattle and property from thieves and protect themselves,

nt y

in the last

o.s.

few thatched

ag h

Ar m

braces had been removed.

Some few houses

others

of brace or

any examples of such chimneys where canopies storeyed

Most of the single of various

with spy holesu

with glass,

covering .than straw,

19 8t • at1stical

houses

shapes - some

are thatched

with rushes,

but only where

ground for tillage

and little

On such farms the owner is usually

thatching

and

unglazed.

th e land is marshy or mountainous

necessary

Rocque's Map

houses in the county.

though I did see cottages

in houses visited

available.

of the 18th century

show traces

houses

I did not find

canopy chimneys.

filled

half

ou n

ag h

ruined

Many of the smaller

have jamb walls

the author must have

houses under survey have been rebuilt

are comparatively

Most of the older

and there

From other

Maps of 1835 show such grouping to a

Ar m

extent.

•

of 1760 and the

by such gentry.

area was much troubled

when that

limited

of events

been thinking

that

clear

however,

is,

authorities

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m the country

robbers which then invested

able to do the

and the rush being shorter-lived

as a

frequent

work.

thatching

and Historical Upper Fews, p.17.

is a fairly

Account of the Barony of

ES. 1 tS-6 .

scooped out of the sloping

occupy sites

Despite

are devoid of back doors.

their

? appearance none of them sho'1 signs of any great

or external

nt y

interior

ou n

wall and evidently

ag h

the front

for crocks,

instead

of design.

overgrown to be quite

or due to the building

The -byres and stables

houses contain 11cubby holes" for curry combs, brushes, 0th er horse and ca.ttle requisites. too, Occasionally, Will see a badly rusted II

weaver's stick" th at it scarcely

still

candlestick

hanging

bears handling,

etc.

but it is difficult

central-hearthed,

Ar m

accident

against

room whereby a gable chimney became a central

as rests

planned

is original

feature

of an extra

the door, usually

and interiors

are collapsed

Ar m

ag h

Such houses were probably

in the

and some have low stone

inside

just

Ar m

constructions

sure whether that

antiquity

show 11keeping holes"

houses

wall on each side of the fireplace

where walls

primitive

features.

Many of the ruined

table-like

Few

type have windows in the back walls and, of

of that

buildings

from

so that buried.

they look as if they were partially

distance

course,

ground,

lands

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m t C © se y a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

in the higher

on the hillsides

A number of houses

one

of such and

one

of the tYPe known as a

on a broken wall but so decayed flaking

and crumbling

at the

touch. slightest Other deserted houses have come into use as t II sight than a ea tle shedst• and I know of no more pathetic house who One cannot forget the past generations so degraded.

tound it home and no doubt were happy in it.

Outside

rt11ned house I saw an old and badly decayed

settle-bed

one that

sat in the customary place - alongside the I would have fire against the inner side of the jamb-wall. used for many years liked to have saved it but as it had been its state did not to stop a gap at the gable end of the house ure of country life in feat ous curi a is It ir. repa of it adm effort is made to some di strict s that when roofs give way no that may be buried by fallen rafters and salvage material in ruined I have seen many kitchen dressers in place thatch. bearing whole or partly broken plates. houses, some still 11 out shots" in None of the house types in the area show

ou n

ag h

Ar m

nt y

ag eu ou Ar M h m n u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C © se a o gh Ar M um un u m ty C se ag ou M um h n u ty C se ou M um nt us y eu M m us eu m

am sure formerly

ag h

remains in occupied

Ar m

half-door

houses.

Ar m

discover no wooden kitchen-cranes still to be found in the district

survive

though they are

north of Armagh city.

but piggins

as well as pewter plates

disappeared

generations

the old

So far as I could

churns and butter-prints

of the houses contain served several

Here and there

in Co. Armagh.

an uncommon feature

That, however, is

to house the bed.

the back wall wherein

Some

that have

and noggins have

though all were common

ago.

enough half-a-century

Some are d. A number of mud-wall houses are still occupie ruined examples in tolerably good order and there are a few and side-walls of stone with to st udy. Some have outer-gables others have mud side-walls and divisions mud-wall interior stone outer

An unusual

hole 8 u

gables.

'apertures

on some farms is the so-called udung in the walls of the byres and stables

feature

~. 15SI through which the ''animal

droppings"

are thrown out into the

dUngpits. In various

parts

of the county tradition

a horse,

quoted,

buried

in barn floors

ou n

dwelling houses for that

reasonu.

a coin or two.

a horse's

that

I know of

and a coin dated

ill-luck

the kindling

turf

will

of a

or coal from a

habitation.

long "lived-in

skull

and that

in a new house should be live

fire

of old

In the destruction

yield

attend a house begun on a Friday first

of a new home.

wrote uthat the frontal as particularly sonsie 21 -

to some extent

Ar m

believed

It is still

provided

Ar m

1693.

one such house that

the walls

ag h

as well and usually

to bury the head of

are sometimes found under the hearths

ag h

Ar m

houses, heads of animals

and under threshholds

head were regarded

they were often

nt y

Donaldson 20whom I have earlier bones of a horse's

thing

in the floor

someanimal, preferably

the proper

that

ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m us eu m

the past it was considered

affirms

20. Statistical

p.??.

21• Lucky.

and Historical

Account of Barony of Upper Fews,

I, APPENDIX

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In the Barony of Upper Fews in the year 1821 there In the houses and 221 uninhabited. were 3 925 inhabited houses had increased to 4,542 and year 1~31 the inhabited houses decreased to 178. In 1841 t here was the uninhabited

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houses, the fi gure for that in inhabited increase a further The Census year being 4,846, with another 241 uninhabited. in the for m of information of 1851 provides more detailed ,.a house census for t he year townland tables incorporating 1841 as well.

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Tullybrone

Tullynagin

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the Census of 1841.

decrease

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Inhabited

- U.H. Uninhabited Note the steady

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48 20

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Tanderage

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Farranamucklagh .. I · 55

178 I

Corran

212

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Armaghbrague.

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132

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3 24 14 1 14

Houses.

in number of occupied

houses

following

Appendix

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Griffith 1 s Valuation of County Armagh for the year 1839 shows that Alexander Armstrong carried out a valuation of ...s_even of the e~ht towns of Ballymacone in the period December 183b - January 1837.

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3 roods and 15 perches.

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188 acres

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Like information. 6 Holdings but no houses Valuation dated January

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sequence:

249 acres 1 rood O perches. Soil described and rates and valuation shown. There were then 10 holdings in the to1:m.land but no houses worth £5 per year. Valuation dated Dec. 23, 1836.

Tullynagin.

shown in the following

The town.lands are

£5 per

5, 1837.

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Lisnadill

worth

324 acres 3 roods 19 perches. Like information. 12 holdings. Valued 4 January, 1836. Farranamucklagh.

478 acres 2 roods 34 perches. Like information. 17 holdings. Valued 10 January, 1837. No houses in town.land worth £5 per year.

Corran

1 1421 acres 2 roods and 1 perch. Like information. 39 holdings. Valued 17 January, 1837. Ho houses in toi.mland worth £5 per year.

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Tullybrone

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265 a cres O roods 23 perches. Like infor mation. 10 holdings . Valued 19 January 1837.

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Lisnadill. Church and yard. Lana attached to school.

Armaghbreague Church and yard. Land attached to schoolhouse.

Exemptions

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Armaghbreague. 2,895 acres 3 roods 23 perches. Like information. 76 holdings. Valued 27 January, 1837.