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History of Ballon and Rathoe, Vol. 1
By Fr. Peadar Mac Suibhne [Fr. Peter Swayne]
Abstracts of References to Cummins Families
Pg. 74 - Jottings, Letters, etc. Cardinal Spellman at Ballon
Letter from Nan Nolan, Laragh, 2 November 1953: "Ter Cummins' mother was Nolan who lived in Dinny Kearney's place. The family lived in Byrnes,' Ballinadrum so they must be something to us. If Jane Fetherson were alive ... she lived down a lane at Ardistan. She may know something..."
Pg. 75 - [apparently describing a photograph] "Inside the Chapel:... Extreme right, girl with the white hat, Mrs. Jenny Cummins, nee Nolan."
Pg. 86 - OWEN BYRNE brother of Ter. 1st cousin of Ter Cummins.
Pg. 92 - Doyles, Ballon, later Kirwans. E.J. Doyle born in Ballymogue... Aiden and Miss Annie, Ballymogue. E.J. m. Maggie from Mayo, high strung. Children, John Joe, Eugene, May, Nettie. Kathleen... a sister of E.J. m. Denis Brennan, Kilcullen. Kirwans have Doyles' funeral book. Cummins, Chapel Gate had one time the breast plate book written by John Nolan, son of Martin the baker who wore a beard. Mrs. Denis Brennan nee Doyle was sponsor at baptism for the present writer.
Pg. 99 - RANDOM NOTES
"These notes were collected over a period of many years, and though they lack order are recorded here for the information they contain. Wherever possible the name of the person from whom the notes were taken
is given, together with the date. The notes are reproduced as they were written down at the time, and in the idiom of the various people who supplied them."
Pg. 101 -
When the bell was hung in Myshall, it was rung by Fr. Cummins. This annoyed the bigots. Major Brady came down furious and ordered Fr. Cummins not to ring the bell. Fr. Cummins refused to obey and said there would be a bell ringing there that would be heard for miles around when there would not be the name of Brady. This from Miss Kate Kennedy, farmers, who lived over Myshall under Bradys. She had it from her father.
Pg. 104 -
Ellen Connors, Sraugh, related to Denny Walsh's wife, nee Nolan born in Ardristan or Aghade, rather where P. Nolan, her nephew, is now. He was a grandson of Miss Connors. Mrs. Dennu Walsh's mother, a Miss Connors, Kilnock, married a Moore of Grange, Johnny thinks, an only daughter. After a year or two of marriage the husband died. They had one child and she had to leave Grange and come back to Kilnock and then she married Pat Cummins of Killane, brother of old Terence. He died and then she married William Nolan of Rosslea. After a year or two she died and he married Miss Nolan, Ballon.
Tom Treacy's mother was Maria Cummins, daughter of Pat Cummins. Moores are there still, probably the same as Sheppards. One of the Moores asked someone to show him Tom Treacy, his first cousin. They had the same grandmother, Miss Connors. Tom and young Cummins are second cousins. The old home of Cummins in Killane possibly where Peter Brophy is living. There were Cummins of Turtane and Cummins of Moanmore, all sprung from the piece of land 30 or 40 acres that Miss Carthy had before she died near Crowe's Cross and the late Ned Canavan's cottage. Miss Carthy was a niece of ...... Cummins. Crowe's Cross is at the Fenagh side of Burren bridge on the way from Ballon to Fenagh. Cornie Kennedy was from around there. He had a daughter Winnie in Dublin at the time he died. His wife was Miss Fetherson, Carrig.
Pg. 108-109 - KEARNEYS, SRAUGH
Uncle Jimmy Swain, Craanpursheen, 30 May, 1948. Vid. also Clowry cards. Fr. McDonald who built Killeshin Holy Cross Church, he thinks was born at Kearneys, Sraugh. Fr. Laurence Cummins, P.P., Myshall, was born in Ullard. Friends of his owned Kearneys, Sraugh. Uncle Jimmy knew brothers of Fr. Cummins. One used to ride a fine tall horse to Tullow, a very fine man like a priest. Ter Cummins of Killane was connected with the big Cummins of Ullard. Ullard was willed to him. Little Doyle paid £2000 for it. A fine type of man who began poor. He had a daughter a nun. He never smoked or drank.
Tom, Ter, Alicia, Elica Kearney lived where Simon lives now. They willed the place to Peter and then Denny got it. Cummins, Sraugh died out. Simon Kearney bought the place. Simon had no family. Andy was a nephew and came into land and got the farm. Old John Kearney was married to a sister of Ter Cummins. Pat Cummins, a young man, fell dead, aged 33. Fr. McDonald was born at Kearneys. They built that house, a very fine house ........ He thinks Fr. McDonald lived and worked in the diocese of Kildare and Leighlin. Mike Power, Sraugh, says today that McDonalds were stone-cutters and came from Co. Wicklow, Shillelagh side. Uncle Jimmy thinks they may be the same as McDonells in Ballybromhill where probably Broughans are now. Fr. McDonald built Killeshin Holy Cross Church.
Tomlinsons lived at Mike Powers, Fail Nolans, Protestants. They made the hall door, a very fine door. Cummins were connected with the Kearneys here beyond. Uncle Jimmy remembers McDonald of Ballybromhill. Fr. Kehoe, P.P., was with him at a ploughing match at a Land League meeting in the field of that name in Ballon. Fr. Kehoe said he had a very high opinion of McDonald. Broughan of Tullow married a sister of McDonald into Ballybromhill.
Pg. 110 - EAMONN DOYLE, T.D.
Eamonn Doyle, T.D., Ballon Cross, 16 Pctober, 1952. Ter Cummins's father was Pierce. Probably Pierce's father whom Tom Nolan attempted to kill....
Five hundred people marched from Ballon to the battle of Carlow. There were more people on Ballon Hill and in Conaberry then than there are in the town of Tullow to-day. ....
There was a six days' fair held on Town Hill where Cummins are now in Kilnock, nearly opposite Billy Keppel's gate. Dr. Comerford refers to the royal fair of Carmen as having been held on the N.W. side of Mount Leinster in the parish of Ballon. The six days' fair should be that. His father, Paddy, heard about the six days fair from the old people.
Pg. 111-112 - MRS. ELIZABETH BROPHY
Mrs. Elizabeth Brophy, Rathrush, formerly Conaberry, 21 December 1965. Cummins of Killane related to the Nolans, Cranaha, the Neddies as they were called. Neddie, Larry and Tom who was at Halligans, Tullow for years. Miss Maria was their sister. Nolans, Ballintrane, Alice, Esther and Mary Margaret, first cousins of Lockie who died there. There were two brothers, Edward and Patrick. Their mother was Miss Dwyer, sister of Lockie's mother. Mrs. Brophy's father, Jim Murphy, was related to Dwyer, two sisters, one of whom married a Murphy.
Pg. 112 - KILLANE NOLANS
Nolans, Killane, came from Myshall. Hugh Nolas, the Plucker's grandmother, was Miss Brophy, Shankill, the mother of Father Nolan, who is buried in Myshall; he was off the mission. Two Frs. Nolan, Fr. Tom, Abbeyleix, and Fr. John, P.P., Kildare, were evicted from Lisgarven and went to Ballinrush. Ter Cummin's people came from Kellistown. They were called Cummins. Cummin's related to Nolans, Burrin Side, Mrs. Nolan, Muinebheag. The Nolans related to Cummins were most likely at Cranaha, a big place, but a long way down the fields. The gate is at the Fenagh side of Morrisseys, and at Morrissey's side of the road. A very old family. They left the place to a niece who married a Ryan. They sold it out. There was a Miss Lalor there. These Nolans were also related to the Kilkeen Nolans. The Kilkeen gardens are there still, at the back of Ballon Hill. They were evicted from the McCormacks where Simon Maher has the land. Ter Byrne, uncle of Ter Cummins, came from Acann and got into the place. The Kilkeens owned a good deal of Leckys and were evicted. Fr. Peter Nolan, who is buried at the back of the sacristy in Ballon, is of this family.
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