THE

A BaUymote Heritage Group Production

Issue No 8 February EDITION 1987 PRICE 30p THE- ILL-FATED HOPES HIDDEN FOLK

of a NEW LIFE by P.J. Duffy There was no I suppose it can strictly The little girl from room for sentiment after a be said that ever since died three year struggle against his primitive beginnings, tragically on one of the famine and eviction. man has been fascinated, And so little Ann coffin ships December 1848 and at times absessed, by Patricia NcNally McLoughlin set off with her by the world of the myster- parents, her head no doubt • ious and the unknown.- full of the nice things she Long before we arrive In early December 1848, would get in America. Ann at the stage where we a little girl called Ann was not suffering her see people dabble with NcLoughlin aged 8 left parents' despair, leaving seances and other forms Collooney with her family their native home, the soil to begin a new famine free they tried to hard to of occult ritual, we had life in America. The first nurture, the soil that had a much less sophisticated stage of their long Journey failed them. They loved society tell us of their odd experiences, in their was to start from on their homeland and were a small steamboat called leaving only because they own simple way. When we !watch the Londonderry owned by were forced to do so to television, we see poeple the North West of Ireland give their young family a being interviewed and Steam Packet Company. The chance to live the happy telll their stories about McLoughlin family from childhood they had the late Biddy Early, that Collooney were Just one of experienced themselves. strange, strange woman many families from the The Londonderry had a who lived at Feakle in West of Ireland who after crew of approimately 26 the county Clare, towards three successive potato and contained three cabins. the end of the last century. crop failures decided to There was covered give up the struggle to pay accomodation at the front We try to compare them their rents, and the even lower deck of the steamboat with the folklore and legends of our own place. We hear bigger struggle to far about 50 passengers. partially fill their This area was called the for instance that Biddy distended stomachs. Their forecastle, and it was here used to a green twisted fare which was six that the NcLaughlin family shaped bottle when casting shillings per person and along with many other one of her enchanting spells, would take them to America Irish families met their and again while performing via Liverpool, was acquired death. one of her famous cures. by selling the families few On board the small Well stories of the remaining possessions and steamboat on this fatal sea twisted bottler were not livestock. Nothing would journey were 177 peculiar - to this part of be retained, not even the passengers, and the upper the country, and indeed treasured heirloom handed deck was all but filled Ding before there was dawn from one generation with c4tle, sheep, pigs and mention of Biddy Early to the next. fish. around here, 2 coot from page 1. - Many passengers finding the heat unbearable n the _rowded forecastle went up on deck, and

huddled alongside the animals. At 10p.m. alter two hours at sea bad weather erupted. The ship went from side to side and by midnight the winds had re<'ached hurricane force. The passengers in the forecastle, most of them

long suffering famine one succeeded in doing so. victims, and the He was Michael Brennan McLoughl ins amongst them, from Mayo and because of The Captain of the

were violently sick. The this one man, further Londonderry - Captain . í r war putrid. What deaths were forestalled. Johnston stated that he -it +le air the single He struggled with members • inderstood the passengers eortbol '' and entrance of the crew who tried to .sad mutinied and murdered cutting their allowed wae soon rank. ignore him, even threats of each other by Cb,acs prevailed; people being thrown overboard throats and then tried to panicked, the stronger. wuuld not deter- this man set the ship an fire. When trampling the weaker to who had just stared in the the victims were examined exit from the dark face of a late worse than however none of them had bole. death, a man who knew his throat wounds and there wa - no trace of fire. All With high seas and mother - and two sisters, water being taken on an were suffLxat.ing as he the wounds were caused by order was issued• for all tried to get the ships Mate tramp-Iing and all bad died of suffocation. passengers to go below. to open the door to the The sad outcome of the The stronger passengers dying passengers in the trial was the acquital of objected and resisted but forecastle. Captain Johnston, Richard even so a wooden doom was Reluctantly after many placed over the entrance to threats the Mate removed Hughes and Kinian Crawford, the forecastle and covered the tarpaulin and broken 1st and 2nd mates. The with a tarpaulin which was door-. He was however. toc blame was placed on the government. Within a year then fastened with ropes late to help little Ant and nails. Air was taken McLoughlin from .Colloone). there was a change in the from the 177 passengers, and .:`.he other Irishmen, safet 1 y laws for passengers what little oxygen they had women, and children who at sea. Buried ground was was now completely gone. died a cruel death on the chosen for the 72 men, The single lamp went out, high 5,05 on their way to someone tried to light a start a new life in women and children outside the city of Derry. The match. 'What r cool -trick i Amy erica. was fate playing en us?' When after much delay steamboat sailed to Liverpool with the few must surely have been and signalling between the surviving passengers. The amongst the f.Inal thoughts ship and Perry, the of `rose passengers who steamboat pulled into Derry boat was later renamed and refurbished and continueu unable to struggle any Quay no one was allowed to take many Irish families lamer gave up and died not ashore. The Head Constable across the .Irish sea. from the famine the y left went en board and found Captain Johnston never behind but from the del a mass of bodies. sailed again and died a few suffocation. People who All of the victims showed years later. had strength shouted and the terrible signs of death banged above the noise of by suffocation with much There is but one the sea, but still they bruising on arms and legs consolation for those of us who are saddened by - the were- lef to certain death caused by their final fate of little Ann in the 'Black Role-'. The struggle to escape the McLoughlin from Collooney heat was unbearable and airless hole or in some and that is that she surely many died struggling to case caused by the boots had a very special place take off their clothes. of those who trampled the awaiting her not in America Mothers lost their weak in their own efforts but in that greater home children, wives lost their to survive and escape this with her Maker. husbands, such was the rush terrible death. 3

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JOHNNY BENSON r.rFt5^.. 2: • ^ . r ! , . , , . . -! !. ,!, fir rir fF. ff R.I.P. an Appreciation

The late Johnny Benson from Ballymote was more than a colleague and a friend. He was a gentleman in the real sense of the word whom I came to know and respect through our mutual involvement in the Gaelic Athletic Association. A remarkable aspect of Johnny's life was that although he spent much of his time away from Sligo he maintained extremely close links with the county and paticularly with the In 1982 Johnny decided reporting on the :good times G.A.A. to retire from the position and not so good, enjoying Shortly after his return of P.R.O. At a function in the victories and seeking to Sligo from Tipperary he Sligo's Park Hotel and the grounds for optimism in was appointed the first Co.Bd. presented him with a the defeats. He always Public Relations Officer Cuchulainn Statuette as a I seemed to particularly for Sligo County Board in token of appreciation of Í enjoy games at his beloved 1970. At that time nobody his tremendous work. Park. Sitting in was quite sure what that Happily, after a one year the excellent Press Box position entailed but break, he resumed the there, looking out on the Johnny took up the position of P.R.O. and the young men of Co. Sligo and challenge and since then Co.Bd. embarked on the elsewhere playing Gaelic has ensured that Sligo project of publishing a , games, gave him immense G.A.A. activities have comprehensive history of satisfaction. received wide coverage in the G.A.A. in His knowledge of the both local and national it was Johnny who was games was of encyclopaedic press. His main given the onerous and tine proportions. His involvement was with 'The consuming task of friendship and feeliAg for Sligo Champion'. He supervising the research footballers, handballers commenced writing notes, team. This he did with and hurlers of all ages was match reports and an great expertise. The reflected in the attendance occasional article under publication of that 'Sligo at his funeral. On his the title of a 'A Special G.A.A. Centenary ' History' in last sad journey back to Correspondent'. His December 1984 will stand Ballymote, with the natural abilities as a as a perpetual reminder of November sky weeping over writer were soon recognised the outstanding work done his black and white draped by the 'Champion' who gave on that project by Johnny coffin, it was entirely him responsibility for the and his colleagues John appropriate that men of the weekly 'G.A.A. Digest XcTernan, Christina Xurphy thirties stood side by side Column'. Those interested and Sean XcGoldrick. with teenagers of today and in the G.A.A. looked forward Johnny's love of things representatives of all the eagerly to his script every Irish and Gaelic was very generations in between. week which was invariably evident. His enthusiasm All had gathered in final interesting, thought for the games, the language ' tribute to a gentle man so provoking and above all and all aspects of Gaelic well respected and loved. impartial. He also did culture was a prime Slan leat, a Sheain trojan work in preparing motivating force in his uasail. Ni bheidh do programmes for matches, life. leitheid in ar measc aris. particulary those in the ine minds eye can Go dtuga Dia Bolas na Championship, and recall many images of him. bhFlaitheas dod anam uasal in contributing to One is of seeing him in Gaelach. publications both local and Press Boxes at venues up national. and down the country, T. Kilcoyne I The óor/hr^ríii /.ðd24t.T/1 :......

JAMES DAVEY FROM KALAVILLE! to give the- stranger tile The Man and the Craftsman in your busy daily schedule, no doubt belongs - Many years ago I was to the odd 'Irish ways'. given a Bodhran as a However, this trait in our Christmas gift. Bach time character was still in the Sodhran was played my' evidence in the home of eyes would fall upon the James and Bridget Davey in name stamped inside the the June of this year 1986. skin - James Davey, Kr Davey was delighted 1W tycreen House, Kí la vi lle, to see the 'old' Bodhran Co Sligo. Often I wondered and played it for a moment whr:> this man was, who made or two, 'you know' be said such a fine Bodbran with with a proud smile 'they ;t5 skin that never failed say a Bodhran improves respond to my touch, with the years if its' well whatever the atmosphere, made'. There was never any i mid or dry, hot or cold. doubt but that this Bodhran Never- did it require the continued to • improve. 'few drops of guinness' or Being the bumble craftsman damp cic:oth to get the tone be is, Mr• Davey quietly right for playing, a touch accepted the proffered of the hand that would praise of his workmanship. eventually play it was all In the quiet of the that was ever required. kitchen with • nothing to The bodhran travelled encroach upon the flow of many miles of sea and air, con ver sa tion other than' the remains grateful to the and many musicians - child continuous, lulling tic- girl who often gave bin the and adult have been taught tacking of the mantle clock answers to his sums at to play from the instrument Mr Davey spoke of events school. He was not alone received as a gift at in his life which developed in his interest; be recalls Chrie tmas 1974. and nutured a love within a group of children from Fourteen years later and him from the age of 4 for his class following the armed with the Bodhran be the Bodhran. 'I got my Ellaville pipe and drum made far me all those first lessons on the band one fine spring years ago I made my way to instrument from a great morning on one of thier K£.lavi.Ile to interview flute player Tom McDlonagh, marches spades and shovels James Davey. I was greeted who was an elderly aloft at the time (1919 by a tall, thin, neat, neighbour • of mine', and at approx) when land was quietly spoken man •who the age of 10 this kindly being taken over for con- introduced himself as James neighbour who had taken acre. 'We got killed that Davey. He escorted me into James under his wings - eyeing when we came back h.is home where the fire in James's father having died to school' be says 'Parents the range burned brightly when he was only 2 years and teachers were more and invitingly. His wife old - gave him a grtmat strict then, we were immediately stood , and skin which James attached terrible afraid of them and shook my hand welcoming me to an old sand screen. priests and .inspectors'. to their home. This couple From then on he would He remembers crossing the had gone to a lot of accompany Tom -to the fields bare-footed to trouble in preparation for crossroad and fireside school in the summer and !.h' reporter from the gatherings the proud owner ir, the winter armed with Crrran Herald. How often - and 'maker' of the the two sorts of turf each one wde inclined to think - instrument that permitted child had to bring for the the visitor, stranger from him to 'join the musicians'. daily fire. foreign . land and neighbour- He sometimes got into From the s age of 14 alike, must have 'bad the trouble both at home and at James had to run the farm same welcome awaiting them school because of his on his own. He had an at 1(11 tycreen House. Such i n vol vemen t with music: He older sister, Kathleen R.I.P. hospitality and a certain remembers the wrath of be himself being an only type of respect, a Master Brennan and later son. It was bard work be willingness from the heart Master Rafferty and recalls but be enjoyed it. cont. on page 13 THE HIDDEN FOLK cant from page L there were A great many legends For anybody with stories of a little woman have been woven around two doors on their house, with a twisted bottle, who the churning of the milk it was regarded as a deadly from time to time used and the making of the mistake to let a person to appear at . certain houses butter. There were people eneter by the front door looking for a deorum of who genuinely believed and exit by the back. By milk. Then just as quickly that it was possible to allowing this to happen, as she appeared she would remove or steal the butter you did something that vanish again. by charm, just at the time was tantamount to giving There was a story it was about to form on away your luck. told about a farming family the top of the milk within It was never allowed who built a new cow byre, the churn. As a precautionery that you land tools or any and then had the unfortunate measure, water from a other type of farm experience of seeing their holy well was often used impplement on May-day, cows die down to three. to restrain the evil-doer. nor was it reasable to remove One day as the woman I heard my late father the dung , from outhouses of the house was busy cooking tell a story of walking on that particular day, the mid-day meal she turned into a kitchen when a churn- because to do so meant around to find a strange ing of milk was under way. throwing out your luck. little woman standing in This even took place away Another suspersticion said her doorway. The wee back in the early years to bring bad luck was to woman asked for a sup of the century. Two women meet a red haired woman of milk, and when the house- were pounding away at on your way to a fair,m wife informed her that a hand dash, moving it or to a church to get married. they did'nt have much up and down inside an old It was regarded as milk as most of their cows wooden churn, and taking a bad omen too if a simgle had died, her visitor said turns at what country people magpie crossed your path, she understood that this used to call "the dreas". and nothing could be more was so. When offered some A circle of red hot coals disasterous than to set milk, this strange creature taken from a turf fire eyes on a white arsed goat took from under her shawl surrounded the churn and when going to a game of a small twisted bottle. its operator, whilst the cards. It took. less than half other person was seated Old supersticions a cup of milk to fill the on a chair alongside. When such as these - are known bottle, and as she turned he asked for an explanation today as pishogues, although in the doorway to go away he was told that if they in my young days people she repeatedly thanked did'nt do this, they could used to refer to them as the woman of the house be beating away all day pisterogues. for her generosity, then on the dash and not a bit In Irish folklore perhaps in a shrill voice she added, of butter would form, as no other imaginery being "you understand madam, it would be taken by the has been more celebrated that your cows have died fairies to a fort which in song and in story than because you built your was situated at the back the fairy or leprechaun. byre on our path". of tho house. Ever since Oisin set off for Tir na nOg in search of the secret of eternal youth, and Darby O'G i l l took his enchaning mid- 7'. CASEY night stroll which landed mammon him in the fairy fort to subsequently meet with M. P 5. I . Ph. C. the king of the fairies, YOUR COMMUNITY the leprechaun whas been PHARMACY a notable symbol of our Medical and Veterinary Prescriptions culture, as well as a nation- al emblem. Let's ask ourselves, Agents what are the origins of Cot , Rimmcl, Saris Souci, the Irish fairy? and why Yardley, Lcnthcric and Cyclax is it always associated with the hill forts and TH I:LIV(; S I Itl.;l:l , I;,U.L1 .M(Yfl': raths of our country? Some F'11 (071) 83370 of our history books tell us fairies were once members '

of the Tuatha De Danann away from home. Then, "If you tribe who were banished against that if you crossed ever find yourself astray underground after their this path in an uncomprising on a fairy path just turn defeat by the Gaels. way, you might find yourself your waistcoat inside out, qWhatever the origins in all kinds of trouble. and you will break the of this mysterious folk, According to Darkie, fairy spell" Hedid this one thing is certain they you had such a thing as and to his amazement, were atioided and much a fan (pronounced "faun") found himself free, and feared in days gone by. (Fan) path where the fairies them unhindered made The hill fort became a marched on certain nights his way home. Later, when place regarded as sacros- of the year. If by chance he described his experience anct, and no one dared you happened to travel to someboyd else, they sink a spade or cut a bush that way and collide with informed him of yet another there. Even in recent years the marching hordes, you remedy, which was this: when the Land Commission were likely to lose your "If you lose your way on were dividing up farms, way, and stay wandering a fairy path and come they found great difficulty for the remainder of the across a spring well, take in finding worksmen to night. I can remember a drink of waater and that lay fences, where these as a boy of ten, listening will solve your problem." infringed on the sites of to a neighbouring man To-day we don't hear of the old forts. describe to my parents, people going astray on In our folklore, fairies his ordeal when he found fairy paths, and I suppose have been referred to as himself wandering on a this is due to the fact that little people dressed in fan path in the middle since the passing of the green jackets and red caps, of the night. He had gone rambling house, people whose glitttering lights visiting to a friend's house seldom cross through fields could be observed at certain earlier in the evening, at night time. times of year, naturally and set out for home at Darkie's tales of Halloween, moving from some time around midnight. the fairy folk were many one fort to another. No He had been there before varied. He maintained person that I have spoken on many occasions and that it were possible for to has ever claimed to was quite familiar with faries to abduct an infant having seen a fairy. The the route he about to take, from its cradle without types referredto by the yet he lost his way and the parents knowledge late John (Darkie) Hannon failed to reach an old wooden and replace it with one were, according to him, footbridge that crossed of their own kind. He eben always invisible in the a stream. With great instanced a cast where deeds and actions they sincerity he explained this had actually happened, were supposed to have how he had gone down and went on to describe carried out. They could on his knees with his hands how the changeling grew be friendly at times, and tried to trace the path into a failed little dwarf, assist their earthly fellows on which he was travelling. who used to go missing in their hour of need. It was all to no avail and from time to time, but Darkie would tell not until cockcrow in the later vanished into the the story of a man from morning did he find himself fort never to be seen again. his area who found himself freed from the spell. There were certain in a pickle one day, and A number of years precautions that people needing his wheelbarrow ago. I talked to an old were advised to take in which was on the bog, man who told me of his down at the lower end experience, when set astry those days, the most notable of the farm. He could not on a fan path at Knockalassa , being to wrap the baby leave his position, and near Bunninadden. After in a little red waistcoat his calls for help went wandering around in circles with a consecrated medal unheard by other members for a long period of time, attached and this measure of the family. All of a he got a feeling that his was supposed to restrain sudden he saw a driverless shoes were gone red hot. the fairies from interfering barrow trundling towards He • removed them from with the childs' wellbeing. him, and he nearly flopped his - feet and continued Then, quite apart from fright when it dropped on carrying one in each from the fairy forth, you down beside him. hand. Just then, he got had the ordinary ghost A caring fairy could an idea that hinged around that could be described do a lot, and sometimes a little story his mother as a sort of loner and was help with livestock on had told him in his youth, said to ahunt lonely stretches a farm, after leading them and it was this: of country road. 7 We had whitethorn bush, + tl' ou lands, where he had shaken one such spook in our area, the valleys of rural Ir;. i himself free from the whose presence although Her weird midni ht laMen shackles of his native feared, came to be accepted was said to portend th..e pishougery. But according as something that was deat of somebody –with* to the story he failed to permanently resident here. the locality where her reckon with the power Its haunting ground was cry might be heard. Although of the Irish fairy, and the that stretch of the Phaleeesh it is believed that she cries consequences of his action road that ends in the bog only for those people whose later gave rise to the legend as it joins the main surname begins with an of by Cuilmore here. The Balllymote, Gw'teen O or a Mac, people of tale of the hare was told thoroughfare. Ove; the different surnames have to me by an old man shortly years I have talked to a also laid claim to having before his death in 1958. number of people who heard the banshee when He reckoned that this strange claim they have seen the a number of their family animal was snow-white strange spectre. Each of died. in colour, and sought sanctury them told a story of being Down the years I at all times near the sport pursued by a figure in a have talked to several where the' whitehorn bush grey cape that pattered people who stated they had been removed. Every along behind on the grass had heard the banshee, effort to run it down with margin, even when people at the time of death of greyhounds had failed and might be walking three a near relative or neigh- after each chase it would abreast on the roadway. bour. I noted one story go to earth at the same One man in particular in particular where a sincere place. Some y( ^rs ago, told me that he had been man told me of his I talked with a grandson for years sceptical of the experience after getting of the man, on whose lands whole story, but got a out of bed one night to these strange events were rude awakening one night remove a couple of houses said to have taken place. when returning from a that had wandered in around The man, who is now game of cards. He was his house. He chased the deceased, was reluctant walking along on the centre animals out onto the road, to expand on the matter, of the road when suddenly and as he turned around but agreed that there was he became aware of to secure the yeard gate, something abnormal about something walking close he heard a piercing wail the whole affair, and he to his side. The perspiration coming towards him from remembered his people oozed out of his whole a distant valley. When tell the story of how the body, and later a chill it came to about forty hare would rise in the same went up his spine, when yards from where he was field where there was no he told of his ordeal in standing it seemed to turn cover of any description an adjacent house where and exho away into the and scamper away into he had sought refuge. distance. He stated that the distance. At other We hear nothing the eerie sensation tha times it would arrive into to-day of the interloping swent through his whole the field and vanish as Phaleesh ghost. I suppose body told him at once it if the ground had open fast means of transport was the banshee. Next and swallowed it up. He in a modern world has morning he learned that told me how his family left it far behind, or maybe a woman from across the had moved from the place it was some restless spirit road had died during the in the early years of the awl, has at last found eternal night. century, as they had peace. The lone white thorn encountered a long period Another well known bush has for a long time of tough luck while resident spook in Irish folklore is been associated with the there. of course the banshee. banshee, and fro this reason Many of the ghosts In our own area, one of it has, like the hill fort referred to in our folklore the best known authorities become a sort of shrine were in the form of animals on the banshee was the in Irish folk memory. of various kinds. Johnnie late Johnnie Dockry who Thjere was a story Dockry would make reference at one time, resided on told of a man who rumoured to the shadow of a dark that strength of roadway a lonewhitethorn bush hound, seen at certain that seperates Ballyfaghy from his field because times of the year at a from Carrowloughlin. he maintained it was causing place called Cameal, on Johnnie 's banshee was an obstruction to the growing the Spurtown road. He a wailing little woman of crops. This man had also had stories of a strange with long grey hair .who it would seem spent some insect that used to make night he found at the lone time abroad in foreign a ticking nose in the masonry

and its persistent ticking which was the scene of at night-time signalled many of Johnnies folk the forthcoming death tales in days gone by. fhe whole place was newly of a member of a family. In the fareground done-up and for what, just to fade Johnnie told of an incident away because nobody uses it. It was loomed the crumbling shell money down the drain as for people that took place in his own of the Shaw manor-house, making use of the building. This house one night, when while down yonder, the money could have been used to he disposed of a swarm Carrowloughlin lowlands equip the centre, because the of cockroaches by pouring opened out into a vast renovation could be done another time, e.g. if it was done this way then a kettle of boiling water valley. The stunted lone there'd be a reason fo renovate the over them. On the following whitethorn bush is still building, because the youth of night the swurvivers had growing there, but the Ballymote would be 'making use of selected out his waistcoat little round shaped well, the centre. The only thing the from amongst other garments Centre is used for is to park crashed with the glagstone steps cars outside the front of the building left airing by the fire, where the banshee was for everybody to see. and riddled it with holes. supposed to rise from, If everybody gave a small sum of Johnnie had scalded the has become overgrown money to a Youth Club bank account cockroaches in the hear by vegetation and trodden in Ballymote every year then they'd of the moment. He was across by livestock. be a good collection of money with afterwards worried, lest interest on fop of that. Then the Nobody claims to youth could equip the town of numbered amongst. his hear the periodic wail Ballymote with any equipment victims might be the the of the banshee anymore. necessary, within the range of death-wach beetle. Perhaps the mythical old modesty of course. The money Many of the old lady has become redundant could go fowards teenagers with a were profifable idea who wanted to go thatched houses in a society which has into business, like raac.hing literally crawling with become more and more everyday objects like school bags cockroaches, but many unsympathetic to sentimental for school-going youth, or starting a of the people who resided thinking and like many second-hand shop, selling soiled in them were reluctant goods. Other ideas like opening a earthly beings has decided music room where people can come to dispose of the pests once and for all to stp,' info a room or a small house or shed because of fear of the at home with her reminisc- and listen to whatever music they death-watch beetle. like, as loud as they like, and do These are just a few ences. what they like within limits for a items of old folklore gleamed small entrance fee like fifty pence a time. This is successful and is in use from numbers of a generation over in England and a majority of the of people who are no longer, money goes to a youfh scheme of with us. Much of it was, Ballymote one kind or another. told to me down the years If ideas like this and other ideas while sitting beside a blazing In 1987 were put into use in Ballymote then the youth would have more turf fire on a winter's night- For any teenager in Ballymote enjoyment. As it is now people at I would like to add, today, life is not exactly a bed of home, who haven't a job and don't • that none of which you roses. The only thing to do for these go to school spend abouf ninety per have read has been invented teenagers is to* school for as long a cent of their time watching T.V. or or contrived. I as possible or collect the dole. walking about fown. This is a simple have given If you're very lucky you might find a example of unemployed youth in it over to you, much the job and make a go of it, but for about Ballymote. People who go to school same as it was told to 30 - 40% there is no job to be got. If spend about seven hours in school me. I have no idea as to they do get a job they might find that which is less time to go about the what your reaction might the boss is taking them for a ride by house doing nothing and not getting using them as cheap labour and up and trying to do something. be upon reading it. Like getting low wages which are The only thing the teenagers have most people I too, tend probably way below the standard in the line of enjoyment is the local to be fascinated by tales wage level for that particular job. It's football and soccer teams, and of the mysterious and the a matter of fighting for a decent job Hurling. There is a Foróige branch unknown. wage and one that will last. which a few people have joined. Johnnie Dockry, Other pass times like going to All in all, facilities for young who passed away in the weekly discos or going to the town people in Ballymote leave a lot to be Youth Club is just a figment of your desired. I have put forward some early fifties was, I would imagination. Oh yes, there's a disco suggestions Fm sure other people venture to say, one of alright, but about once every month have other maybe better, finest story-tellers who and • there is a youth centre but suggestions, but the important thing ever dwelled in our district. there's no equipment or games to is for someone to act on these use in it. The Youth Club officials recommendations. During the fine September allowed AnCO to let up and coming weather of the past couple building trainees to renovate the of weeks, I have spent whole interior, new plaster and Brian Flynn, a number of days haymaking hard-wall on all the walls, new Ballymote Vocational School ceilings and floors, new doors were in that strip of countryside, hung, Teenage life in Ballymote in! 1987 Deotan *RcGrath Ballymote Vocational School So to conclude, I feel there is a lot With the further introduction of It is unfair to say that there is a lack of positive points as regards computers into modern day of organisation in the town for one teenage life in Ballymote, but there businesses and with the frend of has only to lock at fhe Corran Park is also enough negative poinf to unemployment increasing all the Development committee to witness balance ouf — if not out-weigh the time, it is logical to assume that good organisation and planning and positive ones. So I feel, it is up to starting with the present day most importantly community spirit. us teenagers ourselves to try and tip generation of teenagers there is We are now well on the way to the balance in favour of doing going to be more leisure time having another foofball pitch which positive things for the befterment of available to them within the next is badly needed, and it is due to a all in Ballymote. decade than ever before. few individuals within the town who With new technically advanced put a lot of hard work into the planning of the project. BE A FRIEND computers being invented every Take time to Love, day, mainly by japanese and However to the other extreme, to And time to Care, American experts, computers that witness bad organisation one has Take time to,feel can replace anything up to 500 only to look at the community centre for others Fears. workers at a time, there must be an which is lying idle. This is a very fine increasing awareness of the building and a lot of other fowns Just let them know, necessity for the introduction of would be proud to have such a That even when facilities to occupy the spare time building. It is currently undergoing Their world goes wrong, allocated to these jobless people minor renovations and the sooner it You'll be a Friend. within every town, village and city is put to use, the better. in the country. Jac'xtr Kerins, So lets take a look at what is Secretarial Class available to the teenagers of our Vocational School. town. There is both a soccer and gaelic Club in the area, but these on average only take up less than six hours of leisure time in the week which is hardly enough to keep our teenage population satisfied. There is both a snooker and a badminton club in the town which are both opened to its members every night of the week. Each club holds it's own competitions which KIERAN O'DOWD are of vital importance • to the success of any club. NEW & EXCITING SHOE DEPT. There are also other kinds of groups or societies in the community such as St. Joseph's MAIN ST. BALLYMOTE young priests and the St. Vincent de Paul in which I feel that modern day teenagers are not in the slightest bit A RANGE AT UNPRECEDENTED interested. The heritage club is PRICES another one which I feel is a turn off to teenagers because young people NOW ON OFFER look to the future not to the past. LADIES Ladies Suede Fashion Boots Were £ 14.99 NOW £9.99 A new activity which has come to All Ladies Fashion Boots . Were £28.99 NOW £24.99 the town is kick-boxing which is Were £19.99 NOW £16.99 operating in the Castle Hotel. Fshion Rouched Boots ... Were £16.99 NOW £12.99 All the afore mentioned activities are all to do with sport, but what GENTLEMENS about the teenagers who are not Mens Fashion Shoes in • Black Toe-Cap • Grey Toe-Cap interested in sport and who do not • Black Laced • Grey Laced • Black Suede Casual wish to develop , themselves • Grey Leather Casual ALL £16.99 physically. There is a library which GEORGE WEBB style Toe-Caps. 7 Fitting (Black & is located in the Loftus Hall which is also the location for some discos. Tan) £19.99

This library is open to all the public BLACKTHORN Brogues & Lofers £9.99 six days a week. However I feel that the best way to deveop the mind is to get LADIES & GENTS PLEASE NOTE !!! involved in drama. I am sad to say that no drama group or society SHOE VOUCHERS WILL BE exists in the town. There is also GLADLY ACCEPTED scouts and cubs in the town who for the past few years have been experiencing a decrease in SUPERIOR FOOTWEAR, membership WINDOW ONTO TOWN LIGHTING At last a start has been made on the very urgent problem of providing THE PAST adequate lighting for the town. The NO. 1 (The first of an occasional series written by JOYCE ENRIGHT) result, so far, is heartening and it is DRUMCLIFFE: Part 1- Yeats and hoped that when the project is Columcille finished Ballymote will be as well illuminated as any other town of Nowadays Drumcliffe is well known High King, Diarmait Derg, on the comparable size in the county. internationaiy as the burial place of other. Historically, the High the poet W.B. Yeats. It is probably Kingship was the issue. The actual the site most often visited by tourist battle related to a blood feud, on the TOURISM in the county — being a stopping one hand avenging fratricide, and Plans are being prepared for the point for all the tour buses. Yeats' on the other avenging the death of a setting up of a live Tourist grandfather was rector at Drumcliffe person while under Columcille's development group in the area. and W.B. spent childhood holidays sanctuary & protection. The popular Every aspect of our tourist potential both at the Rectory and at Rosses tradition to the Battle of the Book will be considered and available Point with his cousins the attributes the blame to Columcille. It help from Bord Fáilte and other Middletons at Elsinore Lodge. tells us that while Columcille sources sought. The improved During much of his life the Sligo secretly copied a manuscript facilities in the Castle Hotel will be landscape and its mythological belonging to Finian, the founder of a considerable asset. It is expected characters are central to his poetry that monastery. On discovery of the that the new group will be ready to and plays. Though much travelled copy, Finian asked for the copy, start work early this year. and interested in the occult and the Finian asked for the copy to be East, the poet chose Drumcliffe as returned to him and on refusal, IN THE CHURCH ON his last resting place 'under Bare brought Columcille 'to court'. The Benbulben head', in the cemetery case was referred to Diarmait Derg, THE ROCK beside the early nineteenth century the High King, who pronounced — The flower show that few knew church. The site is of course of 'le gac bo boninn i about — It was beautiful, and considerable antiquity. No doubt is cach lebor leborinn' which means expensive, and much care went into Yeats was both aware of and 'To evey cow its calf and every book its preparation. It had a social side fascinated by the historic antiquity its copy'. Bernard McDonagh's also. Just one of those things that of the place. mural in the Co. Library depicts the Ballymote needs. Next time, it is two opposing armies lined up befor hoped that the enterprising OLD MONASTERY the battle. This famous manuscript organisers will give a beauty was a copy of the psalms, for which starved Community an opportunity The monastery was founded by the reliquary known as the 'Cathach' of seeing and appreciating the fruits Columcille on lands granted to him or 'Battler' was made, so-called of their labours. from clan lands; granted to him in because it was carried into battle by fact by his paternal uncle, King the O'Donnels throughout the The Conran Herald has acheived a Aedh Ainmire, who was then King of mediaeval period as a sort of first birthday, and with credit. Now Cinel Conail (Donegal) and later talisman, a tradition which probably the way is clear for it's expansion High-King of Ireland. Little of the owes its origin to the victory at and development. It will, of course, original monastery is visible above Culdreimne. Today the Cathach is always have its Heritage pages, but ground nowadays, but archaeo- part of the 'Treasures of Ireland' it will also cater for youth, sport, logical excavations carried out exhibition, recently returned from culture, and our economic between 1980 and 1986 show good it's world wide tour and now house development and will aim at presevation of organic materials in the newly opened Treasury Room becoming an authentic voice for the and have brought a wealth of at the National Museum of Ireland. area. information to light about the monastery during the Early COLUMCILLE BANISHED Christian and Mediaeval Times (more of this later). It is the only site Tradition tells us that after the Battle, perhaps as a retribute!— These in the county that has both a Round Columcille was 'banished' by his events took place within 130 years Tower and a figure sculptured High- confessor, Malaise, of Innismurray, of St. Patrick's arrival in Ireland and Cross. These alone attest to the and advised not to set foot on his the conflicts between Christianity importance of Drumcliffe in ancient native soil again — his native Soil and Paganism are reflected. For times. Columcille was a colourful being Donegal and the of example, in one of the mediaeval character, closely bound up in Carbury in North Sligo. Subse- manuscripts descriping the battle, politics, and was himself entitled to quently, he established Iona C. we neat that Diarmait Derga the High be a contender for the kingship of 563 A.D. Ten years later he returned King was equipped with an Cinel Conail. The date of the to Ireland. He was requested by the enchanted Eirbe, prOpared by the foundation of the monastery at poets of Ireland to interceed on their druids, and the full strength of Drumcliffe is AD 574 this is 13 years behalf at the Convention of Drum Columcille's prayers were needed after the Battle of Cul dremne, or as it Ceatt in A.D. 573, where the 'fili' are to overcome this diabolical is popularly called the Battle of the accused of abusing their rights and obstacle! Unfortunately we are not Book, and the so called banishment privileges and demanding told what an Eirbe is! of Coltuncille! intolerably high rewards for their services. The High King proposed YEATS BATTLE OF THE BOOK to abolish the order of poets (fili). The Battle of Culdremne was fought Columcille interceded and a Yeats would not have been over in the area north of the village of compromise was reached after concerned with the sometimes fine Carney, 2 laps west of Drumcliffe, in which the rights and privileges of line between fact and fiction, but he the towniand today known as the poets were curtailed. Columcflle absorbed the atmosphere from this Cooldrurnman. The Historical Battle is attributed with the glory of rich tradition, giving his work a of Cul Dremne was fought between 'saving the poets of Ireland'. It was distinct flavour of the Sligo the Northern Ui Neill kinsmen of following the Convention and landscape and traditional lore. Columcille on one side and the before returning to Iona that (TO BE CONTINUED) Southern Ui Neill kinsmen of the Coltnncille founded .Drumcliffe, 1 1 Mrs Motherwell

A leading grazier of the of a British King who set Mrs. Motherwell county, whomafter robbing Britain to war after her his flocks and herds she husband died leaving half The following is an account sent shoeless and stockingless his kingdom to the Romans.) of a ruthless woman who begging from door to door, Honesty is the best policy. lived in Ballymote in the because he got the law People they say never early 19th century. involved also. thrive on ill-gotten goods From: O'Rourla s History She flinched from no one and Mrs. Motherwell was of Sligo. and had more than one no exception to the rule. encounter with yet another After evicting James O'Hara Mrs. Motherwell was a remarkable inhabitant from his fine farm and most notable singular of Ballymote Major erecting qn it an imposing inhabitant of Ballymote Bridgham, whose temper mansion for herself, she around the year 1805. like her own was despotic met with many losses. Her father Abraham Fenton and whose position as agent She sank low in the world was County coroner at of the Ballymote estate and eventually went to the time. His daughter rendered him a formidable Australia where it was was very quiet until her antagonist, more especially said she met with even marriage when she asserted to a tenant of the estate. greater blows Tian that herself so conspicuously Mrs. Motherwell cast her of poor James O'Hara as to efface her husband lot where and when she and James Henry , whom John Motherwell in the would like. Favoured by she put off their lands eyes of the public. Although nature with great gifts and evicted from their John was a sub-she rri f both of person and mind homes. of the county for 14 years, with a figure fit for a model, high constable of Corran, queenly presence, aspiring Related by and receiver of various ideas, courage which nothing Patricia McNally. estates, he was never spoken could daint she could be of thus, this as in many compared to Boadicea other instances she resembled (Boadiden was the wife Grace O,Malloy. Mrs. Motherwell carried her husband about with her and far from tyring to CASTLE HOTEL. exercise authority in regard to her, he was always most BALLYMOTc Tel: 071-83342 docile in her hands. One and only one desire John had, that of getting RESTAURANT a good dinner and this to her justice she took great care to supply. In the words of her neighbours & LOUNGE BAR "She fed him like a game cock". In the execution of her OUR GRATITUDE TO LOCAL FIRMS various offices, she would FOR THEIR SUPPORT. brook no opposition or contradiction as instances FREE VIDEO OF YOUR WEDDING immunerable can attest. To none but two the plight IN CONCERT of James O'Hara of Cultibar FIDDLER'S GREEN whom she drove from land Easter Saturday Night, 18th April and home into the workhouse for threatening to take FUNCTION ROOM AVAILABLE FOR legal action against her WEDDINGS, PARTIES proceedings, and James Henry of Templevany. 21st BIRTHDAY PARTIES etc. Phone 071-83342 r 12 THE PRICE OF PROGRESS COLEMANS Why must man the atomic power station build, To send Electricity over every land CORNER LOUNGE and every field. 83475 Send into the atmosphere Ballymote Ph its atomic dust, Drifted by the breeze and the stormy gust. (Props Jim and Margaret Murphy) This atomic dust which lasts MUSIC EVERY SATURDAY and SUNDAY for years, Giving cancer to many and ALL YEAR ROUND to more tears. Do they want to kill all people Pub Grub Available of the human race, Wipe out all the animals from this worlds face. Why not go back to wind and water power, So all people can enjoy every living hour. People of the world to this atomic Lord Edward >IPuaaR 1 power say no, SolyTw. Show the whole world which way Co. SII6o. to go. Tel: (071)1313S

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F Urrl)1t I AMFS FI.ANAGAN I>FaIt.N.TYPI SFTTINI: Manager K MV Gowan AND PRIN 'IN(: BY AS rPHIN r" Asst. Manager E. Sweeney 13 They did the harvesting, threshing of the oats etc., all without the aid of í^> machinery. However, he 0 Ali f\ found time to go to the ceilis and .country houses. His mother R.I.P. like all mothers was strict on the Mint 'early to bed, early to rise' motto so James, to MAIN STREET, BALLYMOTE, CO. SLIGO avoid what he felt to be TELEPHONE 071-83372 unnecessary worry and to ensure harmony within the Prop: JOHN PERRY home, had two sets of keys made for his bike, one to **NOW OPEN** leave inside the house on the hook which signalled SPECIALS his 'safety in bed' and the * * MART MORNINGS ONLY * * other which ensured he would not miss the country BREAKFAST Starting 7.30 a.m. dance! 'Whether it was right or wrong I don't know DAILY LUNCH but it saved my mother MAIN COURSE & SOUP £2.50 from lying awake worrying, COMPLETE 4-COURSE LUNCH £3.50 I never came to any harm Tdaak Cori'. A-LA-CARTE MENU AVAILABLE ON REQUEST! At this stage James had 12 OZ. SIRLOIN * T-BONE STEAK acquired a violin from his OUR SPECIALITY!! uncle. He would walk seven DINING ROOM OPEN UNTIL 11.00 p.m or eight miles to a dance across fields and ditches, EXPRESS BUFFET OPEN UNTIL 2.00 a.m. and so he would be very 7 DAYS A WEEK hungry on arrival. CLEANLINESS — SERVICE — QUALITY However, he would take up Manageress: NOREEN CREMIN his violin, play the few n n n . . tunes he knew, and as _M_ _ _AEL . musicians were always James Davey went on Letterken_1y who passed on honoured with tea and from there making his a secret to him years ago sandwiches his hunger Bodhl ,a ns for famous and to help obtain a good tune, would be satisfied. 'I used not--so-famous musicians I feel sure that his to feel very conceited to alike. Kevin Guniffe from excellent instruments are get the tea' says James. the Ch ieftans, Christy so because of the pride he One night when he was Moore and numerous other takes in his work and the playing at the hall in musicians extol the virtues love that he has for his Buninadden with Fred Finn of our craftsman from craft. 1k' will not sell an R.I.P. and a few other Kílavi-l.Ie. He has appeared instr'umeni. he is not neighbours, a man came up on television and has had satisfied with himself. He to him and asked James if many stories written on has been making Bodhrans he would make a Bodhran his workmanshÍp. His for 67 years and now at for him. ' He took out a Bodhrans have travelled tar the age of 77 he devotes bundle of money and and wide, their owners all his spare time to his started to count Xl , X2, £3 proud of their instrument craft 'I `m never bord, the and I stopped , him at 14, I with the distinctive stamp 1. ime ir_, never long for me' was embarrassed because I on the inside of the skin, he rays. The method used had never charged for and what is most important by James Davey is that making a Bodhran before, I of all, confident that when used by most Bodhran had made them mostly for their turn comes to perform makers. He prefers to use neighbours and friends'. solo on their beloved a 2 year old mountain instrument it will not let nanny goat. He tried to The man in question was them down. breed goats himself but his Matt Mu11holland who was a What is it that -makes land was too rich for the great step dancer and later James Davey's Bodhrans so purpose. The gat is developed a successful special? Although James killed painlessly and auctioneering/estate agent himself lends a lot of the carefully skinned, an art business in Sligo town. credit to a man in in itself. 14 A Land of

The skin is He was a member of the Milk & Honey then placed in a tank of 'Rising Sun Celli Band' and By MAUI= StiVP1AT water and lime for 10 days travelled to play at ceili's There is scarcely one food that can after which time the tufts all over the province. He be bought today in its natural forum. — of hair .ire easily removed I himself made the drums Enormous quantities of processed with a blunt instrument. ' used by the band. foods are on sale, containing Great care must be taken And so with this story chemical additives and preserv- the Corran Herald has atives. Then has been indiscrim- not to pierce the skin as inate use alchemical fsztthsers, anti- this would render it endeavoured to portray to biofics, insecticides, and hormonal useless. The pliable ' its many readers a picture growth promoters. Radioactive cleaned skin is stretched of the man James Davey waste has added to the problem and and nailed to a suitable who, because of his man-made pollution has turned upbringing in an area rich fresh air and fresh water into rarities wooden frame and left to in some parts of the world. All this dry for 7 to 8 weeks. The in culture, a cutlure and poses serious health problems and skin is finally attached to heritage to be pround of, is a major problem. wooden hoops 15 to 17 grew up to be master inches in diameter by craftsman of his trade. Here in Ireland we should utilise our Ireland has always had a natural resources. Our young equally spaced brads. The people should be motivated cross rods are fitted • quality of life that is towards a healthier existence by inside the hoop. At this unique to her, this certain trep orgardc brining and stage the secret mixture is quality is more apparent in ig=tr basic sldlls of the land rubbed on the skin and a ' Ruaral districts where the A scheme should be introduced to lends itself to set aside two add-term breaks from satisfying tone is environment school during which young people achieved. The completed 'bidding the time of day'. would sow and reap the harvest, just Bodhran is left for 24 to whomever one may meet as the previous generation did hours at a high temperature in the course of the day. during the'emergsncy'. As in Cuba and 24 hours at a cold The result is a caring the slogan night be 'just one more friendly people willing to field under the phough'. And temperature and tested each remember 'ask now what your time. The badhran is then teach their trade to the country can do for you: ask what you painted James' distinctive interested pupil. can do for your contry'. Narrative by: brown colour and will be passed on to its new owner. Patricia McNally Agricultural forms an essential part s of our economy and with the aid of James's craft it is to be modern technology could form a hoped will reveal itself in NEW FONT in Kilaville secure base for a Competitive one of his six children who export industry. Cut-away bogs can have been given the same After 125 years of use be reclaimed for growing secret James was given in vegefables and crops. With a the Holy Water Font in guaranteed price on the home Letterkenny many years ago. ,Kilaville Church has been market, we could eliminate the James Davey and his replaced. The old font was present high importation of like are a big asset in any installed in 1861. processed foods. community and James has The new font was throughout his lifetime Various governments have used 'christened' on Friday 20th the recession as an excuse for not been involved with many September 1986. The helping the agricultural sector. And committees in his native ceremony was presided over the E.E.C.'s Common Agriculture area. He was appointed by Bishop Tom XcGettrik Policy is such that for every five clerk to the Kilaville whose return to his people working on the ground there Group Water Scheme in 1979. missionary work was are three involved in administration. centralisat- his Job was to monitor and delayed by two weeks ion has led to the food mounfains oversee the work in pending the arrival of baby and lakes. Can it be ' progress' that progress. He fulfilled this Hiamh Ann Mc Gettrik. has lead to all this? task with distinction and Fr.Filan - curate of was rewarded when he saw Kilaville concelebrated the the water pour freely from CONGRATULATIONS to Johan Perry, ' ceremony. a member al Ba lymote Heritage the tips in the homes of The Godparents were: co the opening al THE his friends and neighbours. James Davey - Kiltycreen COttRAN^ RESTAURANT. group He was appointed Chairman House, Kilaville, brother- wishes him every success. of the Coleman Traditional in: law of Bishop XcGettrik Society, a society which Mrs Kathleen White (nee has indeed preserved' and Merrick) former native of -_ THE CORRAN HERALD gratefully perpetuated the memory of Gurteen. 'w 'edges receipt cis donation of 110 from hilts. Jennie heat, the master fiddler Nichael AWvoler, Ballayhaderrem. Coleman. 15 A TEENAGER IN An Old Match Brian McDermott Papa Micheal thought it time, Ballymote Vocational School Patrick Son should take a wife, Made a match for Patrick Son, Satisfied Day's Work well done. 'God Bless the Youth'. This is a These are ways of spending saying a local man has been noted leisure time, but for teenagers to get Patrick Son did not like, for. This can be interpreted in two on in life they must also work. At Papa Micheal's choice of wife, ways. The first way, quite simply, is home, work involves homework Angered Papa Micheal's pride, for God to look after us, the othe is ▪ and studying for various exams, the Choosing for himself a bride. for God to look after us, the other most important being the Leaving On England's shore Pat made his meaning is that the fate of the Cert. which may determine the home, country could depend on us, when outcome of the rest of your life. In his heart he never roamed, we are mature men and women. Of course teenagers pick up the He always meant to go back home, Being a teenager can be the most wrong impressions and habits and To Papa Micheal and his own. important time of your life, but it is these are very hard to redeem, the The ways of God are not man's way, not without its troubles and set- outcome is people using their Now Patrick lies in foreign day, backs. Impressions people get of leisure time sitting on a high stool In God's home we hope he met, you are, I think, one of the most and as a result leading an inactive Those on earth, for God he left. life. important aspects of being a NORAH MURRAY, teenager. These impressions are Athleague, Roscommon. quite vivid and are formed by the way you participate in activities in your local communities. Life can be divided into two A Teenager In The Blue Hills sections — Work and Leisure. We will look at leisure first. Teenagers Ballymote of Erin are supposed to be active and creative. There are a number of The need for a youth centre in The blue hills of Erin, like sentinels clubs and associations on offer to Ballymote is definitely to be grand, teenagers in Coolaney, like Venture considered, not only would it be put Guarding the valley's and soft Scouts, Macra na Feirme and a to use by the youth but would also verdant lands, Football Club. be of benefit to the aged even if it Soaring into the skyline, like hands Most of the teenagers in Coolaney was to get them out of the house for lifted in prayer, have joined the Venture Scouts half an hour each day. It would Imploring the Godhead Erin to spare. which is probably the greatest improve physical activities, as well Oh blue hills of Erin, do you ever active club ever in Coolaney. We as developing personality. It could shed tears, are the only Venture Scouts in Sligo. be a meting place for bingo for the To see emptyhomesteads,throughout The reason for this I can't aged. As for the young, it would be the long years, understand, probably because of benefit to them as it would keep The children all scattered, teenagers lose interest after leaving them off the street corners creating THe old folk all gone, Boy Scouts which is a younger disturbance. Young people have Oh blue hills of Erin, may God's Will branch of scouts. roughly six hours freedom per day and as their energy, well it's be done. In Venture Scouts which has an unlimited. When boredom sets in NORAH MURRAY, age group from sixteen to twenty and it does, the energy is not used Athleague, Co. Roscommon. year olds, we have many oppor- up in physical activities, e.g. sport, tunities and our activities are Norah Murray's grandparent's were it's used up in destruction and decided on by the members and not Patrick Brehony of Ballyn ote and violence. The youth of Ballymote by the leaders. As a matter of fact a Honorah Brehony (nee Ballantyne) should have something of physical leading chief scout in Ireland has of Keash. Miss Murray now lives in interest to count on and to keep said that we are 'the most active Athleague, Co. Roscommon. them off the streets. To see the lack Venture Scouts in Ireland', which of sports facilities in Ballymote all was a great compliment. We have a you have to do is look the otherside wide range of activities such as LIFE of a Pull Door. The people of Life is fuH of joy and cheer, Canoeing, Mountain-climbing, Ballymote have capabilities, not Sometimes sadness mixed with Hiking, Pot-holing as well as only in their minds but also in their fear, arranging Halloween and Christmas bodies, so a youth centre would No matter what it's far from clear, parties for the youth and the elderly. improve communication. I'm not just Just how life works from year to Often we are asked to help out with speaking for myself, but for the year. the Scout leaders. One weekend we people of Ballymote. For its catered for over twenty scout First we're born into this scene, population, Bunninadden is leaders at a Group Leader Training Then with water we are cleaned, honoured to have a youth centre of COurse. We also help out with Life gets on until our end, tremendous size where youth club discos every month at Cloonamahon Mysterious as it is, just like the activities and games are being with physically and mentally handi- wind. carried out. capped and if that is not using your How did we really come to be? Ballymote should have a youth leisure time, what is? Why on earth are we far from free? centre complete with indoor For those who have farming Life is something to enjoy, activities, e.g. table tennis, etc. I'm backgrounds, the old Macra na Not to hate and question why? sure many people of Ballymote Feirme has been set up again after a would contribute to supplying those All these mysteries we all know, few years absense. They have necessities and they'd be put to Are part of life and help us grow, always been very active and have good use by the young and old, no So anymore, please don't insist, new younger members. There is matter what they cost. On questioning life how it exists. also the long serving Football Club Clare Clinton, for the sporting type and this is a MARIE DONOHOE, Ballymote Vocational Schoe Secretarial Class, great way of keeping fit. Ballymote Vocational School RULES FOR TEACHERS 1872 VDEO SERVICES Teachers each day will fill lamps, Lord Edward St Ballymote clean chimneys.

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