Talk:Dunmanway

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[edit] Anecdotes and local legends

This story about the Cox family is appropriate for the page, but needs some kind of citation:

"The Cox family were one of the chief families of the town in the 17th and 18th centuries and did much to develop the linen industry. One of the family, Richard heard that a preacher allied to John Wesley was due to visit the town and decided to give him a ducking in the local lake. To practice he went out in a boat but fell into the water and was drowned. The event was commemerated by the following verse:- "'Tis there the lake is, Where the duck and the drake is, And 'tis there the crane can have his fine feed of frogs. When night come's round it, The spirits surround it, For in it was drownded Sir Richard Cox.""

Dppowell 00:39, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

I note what i believe are 2 errors in the article on Dunmanway. First, the young man killed with Canon Magner was not called Purcell but Crowley. Secondly, the unfortunate murdered protestants numbered not 22 but 3.

John Murphy (left Dunmanway in 1957)

Hi John--feel free to edit the article yourself (though it would be even more helpful if you could cite a source like a newspaper article to confirm those corrections). Dppowell 14:04, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Verse correction?

I heard somewhere that a line of the verse is: "When night comes around, It's all changed ground "

Is this true? CahalanesDunmanway 15:18, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I'll ask my dad (an expat local) when I see him next. Dppowell 15:07, 19 November 2006 (UTC)