Loughteague, Stradbally

Ethnographic -- Personal Endurance -- Fetch or Ghost of Living Person -- Curse -- Chapel and Graveyard -- Loughteague National School Built in 1833 -- Cures -- Cures -- Cures -- Beliefs and Customs -- Marriage -- It is very unlucky to burn men's hair. -- Cross-Road Dances -- Brídeog -- All Fools' Day -- St Martin's Eve -- May Bush -- Ash Wednesday -- Shrove Tuesday -- Hallow Eve -- Midsummer Eve -- St Patrick's Day -- Ghosts etc. -- Archaeological - Pisreoga - Pishrogues / Moran, Miss -- Water Taken -- Inscription on Tombstone in Dysartenos Graveyard -- Wakes - Belief Customs -- Wake Room -- Funeral Offerings -- Marriage -- Fortune or Marriage Portion -- Haunted Houses Roads etc. -- Haunted Roads etc -- Haunted Roads etc. -- Haunted Places - Capoley -- Haunted Places -- Haunted Places -- Haunted Places -- Haunted Places -- Life in Farmhouse 50 Years Ago -- Cooke's House and Farm Buildings -- Food in Farmhouse -- Dysart Farmhouses Thatched -- James Drennan's House -- Morrin's House - Loughteague -- Old Tom Morrin (grandfather of Tommy who wrote previous article) was what is known as a "handy-man. -- Conroy's House - Rathleague -- Con McEvoys House Dysart - or Coolnacarrick -- Cropping of Farms Mentioned Here -- Threshing Machines -- Irish Draught Horses were in general use on the farm back in '70s and '80s. -- Harelip Birth -- Clothes are prepared for first baby but if the baby dies or is still born the clothes are given away. -- "Caul" is said to be very lucky. -- People were going out to America in those days on the coffin ships... -- Joe Keane Born - At Rosemount Moate Westmeath with Caul on 27-6-1897 -- Put salt in the baby's sleeve to save it from harm if you are heading out. -- Baptism -- Lay Baptism -- Name -- Don't stand for two children in the same year. -- Customs -- Occupations -- In a run across Laoighis I noted the following thatched houses within view of road Maryboro to Clara. -- Farm Implements / Fingleton, James -- Crows start building their nests on the 1st March exactly... -- Children's Games of Present Day -- Children's Games -- Old-Time Children's Games -- Unofficial Place Names -- South Side of Dysart Hill -- Loughteague Side -- Terms Used in Farming -- Lowry's Munny - Muine Uachtar agus Muine Íochtar -- Dysart - West Side -- Townland of Raheenanisky -- Linguistic - Words in Common or Occasional Use -- Farm Implements etc. -- Baill Éadaigh -- glib - a strand of hair hanging across the brows. -- Prayer