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Due to Covid 19 restrictions, we regret tours will not include Seán Mac Diarmada’s cottage.
We house an exhibition about the 1916 Proclamation signatory Seán MacDiarmada. The exhibition contains an audio-visual facility and interpretive panels, providing visitors with information about Seán MacDiarmada and the history of the locality.
Seán MacDiarmada’s family cottage is only a few kilometres outside the village in Corranmore.The cottage is a designated National Monument owned and maintained in its original condition by the Office of Public Works. It is of considerable historic importance as it is a fine example of a traditional Irish cottage and gives an insight into what life may have been like 100 years ago.
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Jim Connolly fellow musicians and dancers arrived at the Cottage of Seán Mac Diarmada prior to Covid. How we miss the Cottage Joseph Sheerinn . It was a class day.😀 a chara Ciarán
The Mass Rock Sraduffy Kiltyclogher .
Pic ref:The Dillons
Can anyone local suggest where this cave is in Sraduffy?
Rattlers Hole
There is an old cave on the land of Mr Francis Keaney Straduffy Carong of Rosclogher and parish of Cloonclare
and Co. Leitrim. It is called "Rattlers Hole" because of a man called "Rattler" who took up his abode there. This man lived by robbing the people in surrounding farmhouses. He used to come out at night and he carried the blade of a scythe with him. At first he used to go into the houses and demand from the people food and other things such as clothing and money but as times went on the people left them outside the door for him. He lived in this district about the year 1805. When people were building houses then they put very small windows on them especially on the back so that "Rattler" could not force an entrance. On the outside of the window sills (back and front) of the house in which I live there were iron bars which reached three-quarter ways up the window. These were pointed at the top and there was one cross bar about half way up. There were seven of them on the back windows and five on the front. These were to ensure safety against "Rattler'. When one goes beside the hole some people say that one will hear the robber or his ghost rattling below in it. This noise resembles the croacking of frogs or the lapping of water against rocks. Some people believe also that the money which "Rattler" stole is still hidden in this cave but nobody has ever searched it so as far as I have heard. Beside this cave is a mass rock which I described before.
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Dúchas collection: Killea 3219 Informant Owen Regan Glenkiel ,Kiltyclogher
Bio blitz with Heritage in our Hearts.
The Water The Woods and The Underworlds Tour
with Howard Fox ,Maria Cullen and the Kiltyclogher Heritage team
The American Wake-#Kiltyclogher and #Manorhamilton.
As the name suggests, an American wake is quite similar to a funeral wake, except for one key difference; the person being waked is still alive. Sadly thousands and thousands of people emigrated through famine or recession to America .Here are some of the accounts of the people of Kiltyclogher and Manorhamilton
American Wakes - convoys, conveys were usually held for individuals but occasionally the convoy might be held in the most convenient house when a number of emigrants were leaving the same locality the same date. I attended one such in McGriskins Hotel, Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim, in 1928 I think. On this occasion Quintis a son of the proprietor and two cousins were going to USA and the party was held in the Pub and a presentation made to the parties in the morning. Two other young men were going to Australia from Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim in 1925 and a similar party and presentation and speech making was held in a local hotel. In fact such presentations are still held in Manorhamilton when a bank clerk or some such who has spent a couple of years in the place is getting transferred and is generally organised by the person being transferred or some of his friends or the licensee and is justly regarded as a bit of a racket. The last official convoy I was at where we or some of us brought drink - bottles of whiskey - was to Master Maguire’s, Rockfield, Kiltyclogher when one of the girls and a boy were going to USA. On that occasion friends and neighbours gathered in and presents were given; dancing and singing and eating and drinking went on to daylight and in fact some of us motored all the way to Derry, went out on the tender to the big ship and had a meal on it with the emigrants and said the last goodbyes as she weighed anchor. ‘And all heaved a sigh and said goodbye to the hills of Donegal.
’Ref. Liam Ó Briain, N.T.,Kilcoo.
Hope you enjoyed it. If you have any stories on American Wakes. Please contact us on 0719854865 or email us at kiltyclogherheritagecentre@gmail.com
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