1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,520 Did I hear everyone come clear and know about the wireless? 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:11,520 My name My name is. Pish Roads hosted by Luke 3 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:21,160 Conroy. Luke Mountain of the Speaking 4 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,000 Horse. Is that what you're going to 5 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:23,840 call it? I think so. 6 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,560 It's very tantalizing. Crazy speaking horseman. 7 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,240 My name is Crazy Speaking horse. Why is he crazy? 8 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:36,840 There are many myths and legends surrounding Ben Auckland. 9 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:40,080 It was taught to be a fairy mound, the dwelling place of Don 10 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:45,000 Bin, a fairy king who roamed the area on horseback every May Eve 11 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,640 looking for changelings. If you hadn't a piece of 12 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,920 mountain ash above the door, it was God help you. 13 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:56,320 The mythical White Horse or copper born was a powerful 14 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:00,200 figure and it came once a year on the last Sunday of July, 15 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,680 Bilberry Sunday, to speak oracles to the people. 16 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,040 Up until recently there was allegedly a large white outline 17 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:11,840 of a horse carved into the hillside visible for miles from 18 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:15,240 the road from Swanland Bar, and that came from a little piece 19 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:19,960 about Ben Auckland Mountain on the BBC, The British 20 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:23,560 Broadcasting Corporation. Is it the corporation? 21 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:24,920 Corporate. Yeah, I don't know. 22 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:26,720 Yeah, yeah. Council. 23 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:30,960 Yeah, the Council of British Broadcasting. 24 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,280 Welcome. Is it British Broadcast 25 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:34,680 Corporation? Sounds crazy. 26 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:36,680 Corporate. Yeah, it's like the corporation. 27 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,200 BBC. If not council meaning. 28 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,360 BBC's the UK's national broadcasters also used online 29 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,760 slang to represent an adult term for Big Black. 30 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,240 So there you go. Welcome to the Pit Strokes 31 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:53,680 podcast with my lovely Co host. Kahlberg and Bergen Bergen. 32 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:56,600 What does Bergen mean? Bergen Ohavergene. 33 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,920 Well, Kahl means brave and battle apparently, but that's 34 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:01,080 what it means. But Bergen? 35 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,280 I actually not sure. The older Irish name is 36 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:04,720 Ohavergen. Oh really? 37 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:06,760 Oh, African. A descendant of America, You 38 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:07,880 know, they're like the first guy. 39 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:10,400 American, African. You know that fellow. 40 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:11,360 Is that true? Yeah. 41 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:13,600 Yeah. The man who did the the poem to 42 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:14,240 Ireland. Yeah. 43 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,800 The poem to Ireland, Yeah. So yeah, thanks for Ireland. 44 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:18,920 Yeah, true. Actually. 45 00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:20,440 Finally. Yeah, I found it. 46 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:21,840 Yeah. You're welcome. 47 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,880 That's the one we did. The poem beyond what was it? 48 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:26,880 9 waves. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 49 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,480 They're like get back out over 9 waves. 50 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:31,680 Yeah, yeah. And it's like the opening. 51 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:33,720 I feel like it's one of the first things man, Kong goes. 52 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:38,560 Through and it's kind of like a origin story in some ways, like 53 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,280 of who we are, the Irish people and not the fairies. 54 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,920 Because he's like I am the wave and I am the. 55 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:47,720 Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. 56 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:50,160 I'm the pig. I'm the beautiful Greenfield. 57 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:56,040 The origin for why I wanted to do this episode in great. 58 00:02:56,040 --> 00:03:01,240 Like what's it called fate and what's happenstance? 59 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,800 I was living divine Providence. I was, I know I was at home for 60 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:09,920 like 2 months and I was walking the roads and you can see Ben 61 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:11,880 Auckland and Quilka, which is the bigger mountain. 62 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,520 But the next thing this woman drove down the lane and she like 63 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:18,120 pulled up because she turns out to be, she's a horse vet. 64 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:20,640 So she's a horse veterinarian. She's also a horse 65 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:24,240 kinesiologist. And she was like, oh, it's kind 66 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:27,880 of faith that I became a horse kinesiologist or a vet because 67 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:29,880 she's like, well, obviously we're in view of the horse 68 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:31,440 mountain. And I was like, what? 69 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,440 I didn't know this story was a thing. 70 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,040 And she was like, Oh yeah, Well, Dad used to always tell us a 71 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:40,200 story about that every Bilberry Sunday, which I also did not 72 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:42,760 know and of. Course Bilberry Sunday. 73 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:45,960 The house is full of bilberry. Yeah. 74 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:50,000 She was like, every Bilberry Sunday and this horse, like, 75 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,680 comes down and speaks to the people. 76 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,160 And I was like, I've never heard of this in my life. 77 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:58,080 And I also found it cool that a horse woman told me, yeah, yeah, 78 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,200 this tale. So I was like, this is a story 79 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,840 that's just fallen. We must develop this. 80 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:04,760 We must. Yeah, we must. 81 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,000 We must start digging. And I just can't fathom what a 82 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,840 speaking horse would. Look like no. 83 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,920 What does a horse want to say? Yeah, that's the thing that 84 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:19,279 annoyed me. Just in advance spoilers of all 85 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:21,200 the stories. All I can find is people saying 86 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,640 yeah a horse comes out and speaks but never say what did he 87 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:25,040 say? What are? 88 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,440 They going what does he say? Like nobody A horse is speaking. 89 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:30,680 You'd think maybe we should listen a. 90 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:33,720 Horse is speaking guys. Let's listen. 91 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,720 Let's listen to it instead. Everyone's just like Jesus. 92 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,040 He's talking like Oh my God of. Those bilberries give me some of 93 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,280 them Bill birdies give. Me, that bilberry. 94 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:43,600 I don't even know what a bilberry is. 95 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:45,760 I think I googled it and then I was like, oh I've never. 96 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:48,360 Had does he just started speaking and just wants carrots 97 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,280 and the horse rode on. The horse rode on. 98 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:55,720 Of there's a, what is it called again? 99 00:04:56,120 --> 00:05:01,800 There's this Italian race that goes on, but it's a race in a 100 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:04,400 little town. Have you ever heard of this? 101 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,000 No. Let me maybe look it up. 102 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:09,920 Yeah. They all wear these weird 103 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:14,120 medieval get like get UPS. All the parishes get their 104 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:17,760 little horses and they don't actually get to choose what what 105 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:21,360 horse they get to ride. So I think they pulled it out of 106 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,000 a bat and everyone's like, oh, I have this horse. 107 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,400 And then they start. But some people would, they'd be 108 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:28,720 like crying before, but it's not important. 109 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:29,920 Because they get a bad horse or something. 110 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:32,000 They have a bad horse. They probably all know about 111 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,000 that. I didn't want that horse. 112 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:36,920 Yeah. So it's like each parish UMM 113 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:41,120 rides their horse, but it's not important whether the rider 114 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,320 actually is on the horse at the end of the race. 115 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,120 It's all about the horse. So if you're a horse, if you 116 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,640 fall off during the race and your horse wins, you win. 117 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:53,120 That's great. So it's which? 118 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:55,440 In some ways you could just like jump off probably. 119 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,800 The it's definitely a skill, but when I was younger I always felt 120 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,480 as a sport horse racing, you're like, well, the horse 1. 121 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,280 So that's good that you know, I mean, you are on and jockeys 122 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:06,240 don't come for me. No, no. 123 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,640 Don't come for me. I'm sure there's a great skill 124 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,040 to being a jockey, but a part of me is like, isn't it just the 125 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:12,600 horse that's doing all the leg work here? 126 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,800 I was talking to like a 97 year old woman, but she used to live 127 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,440 in leash, but she used to own horses in her farm. 128 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:28,440 But she was old enough to remember when World War 2 129 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,560 started and they used to have machinery and tractors and all 130 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,720 these things, but because they ran out of fuel, they had to 131 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:38,760 bring back the horses. So she remembers having a horse 132 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:43,000 who was like the worst workhorse ever, but he kept just like 133 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:45,760 jumping out and running out of the farm and everything. 134 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:47,560 Damn. So eventually they're like, 135 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:49,960 right, this, this horse wants to just keep wandering. 136 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:51,760 So they sold them to the travellers. 137 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,560 They didn't see the horse for a few years, and they loved the 138 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:55,400 horse. He was great. 139 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:57,280 But they didn't see him for a few years. 140 00:06:57,280 --> 00:07:00,960 But eventually the travellers, they used to stay by the river 141 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,400 that was near their house. But one day the horse just 142 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:07,200 arrived back into their pen and he was just there, fresh and 143 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,440 needed like, oh, he remembered where he used to grow up. 144 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,320 That's so cool, I. Know he returned back to them 145 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:17,920 eventually. Those lumbering horses in the 146 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:22,120 steady plow on the bare field. I wonder why just now. 147 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:26,040 This seems terrible. So wild and strange, like magic 148 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:30,400 power on the Stony Grange. Perhaps some childish hour has 149 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:33,040 come again. When I watched, fearful through 150 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,240 the blackening rain, Their hooves, like Pistons in an 151 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:40,400 ancient mill, move up and down, yet seem as standing still. 152 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:44,040 Their conquering hooves, which trod the stubble down were 153 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,840 ritual that turned the field to brown, and their great hulks 154 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:53,080 were seraphims of gold or mute ecstatic monsters on the mould. 155 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:56,960 And oh, the rapture. When one furrowed done they 156 00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:59,720 marched broad breasted to the sinking sun. 157 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:04,320 The light flowed off their bossy sides and flakes, their furrows 158 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,800 rolled behind like struggling snakes. 159 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:11,040 But when at dusk, with steaming nostrils, home they came. 160 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:14,840 They seemed gigantic in the gloom, and warm and glowing with 161 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:19,000 mysterious fire that lit their smouldering bodies in the mire. 162 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:23,400 Their eyes, as brilliant and as wide as night, gleamed with a 163 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:27,320 cruel apocalyptic light. There remains the leaping iron 164 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,120 of the wind, lifted with rage, invisible and blind. 165 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:35,760 Now it fades, it fades, and I must pine again for the dread 166 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:39,360 country crystalline where the blank field and the still 167 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:43,039 standing tree were bright and fearful presences. 168 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:45,320 To me. That's the poem. 169 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,520 That's by Edwin. Moore, Edwin Moore, Yes. 170 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,800 He almost sounds scared of the horses now. 171 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:53,920 I think that's good, isn't it? Terrified. 172 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:56,160 It's nice to be afraid of a big beast like that. 173 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,960 Like horses are scary. I think it's nice to have a a 174 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:05,480 like an appreciation for their their power, power, power. 175 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:07,840 Ultimate power. Ultimate power. 176 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,560 If the horse gallops towards you, it's OK. 177 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,000 It's OK if. You if you guys have ever 178 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,480 listened to the ice swim half whim half. 179 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:22,320 We were doing Whim half last week when we failed to record 180 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,360 the podcast. And it's funny when you're 181 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,880 listening to him and he's asking you to hold us your breath. 182 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:33,240 He was like, if your body is tingling, that's OK. 183 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,560 And I trust him if you're like Blue. 184 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:38,680 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's OK. Yeah, it's. 185 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:42,640 OK. Ambulance is coming, it is OK. 186 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:46,600 Without further ado, do. Yeah, do do do do do do do do 187 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:48,160 do. We're going to head into some 188 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:50,280 stories. Do you want to read Ben Auckland 189 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:52,280 or will I read Ben Auckland? You go and read Ben. 190 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:53,720 Auckland will do. It's your mountain. 191 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:56,720 So this one Ben Auckland from Swanland Bar. 192 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,080 This mountain lies about 3 miles North East of Swan and Bar. 193 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:04,480 County Cavan is also known by the name of Ben Akland or the 194 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:08,000 mountain of the Talking Steed. Before the coming of Saint 195 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:09,760 Patrick. This steed was supposed to talk 196 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,880 to people on the night of Salon and the people around brought it 197 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,320 presents Salon. That's different from what the 198 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:16,640 other people said, they said, Luna said. 199 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:18,160 Didn't. They did, yeah. 200 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:19,800 Look, people can't make their mind up. 201 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:21,720 This horse was regular down there. 202 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:25,600 The place is said to be the headquarters of Don Binya, the 203 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:29,240 Danan chief of the McGuire clan, Ben, or Bin Aklan, meaning the 204 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,080 stables of Don Binya. He was supposed to ride a White 205 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:36,240 Horse, and a tradition exists that in a full battle near the 206 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:39,280 foot of the mountain, he will ride out to the assistance of 207 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:41,400 his own people and lead them to victory. 208 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:44,000 So it says. I wonder, is it that if a battle 209 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,120 happens near his mountain, he'll defend whoever's from the area? 210 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,520 Kind of like the Lord of the Rings moment where people. 211 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:52,280 Like Gallant behind him, valuable. 212 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:55,600 Yeah, the fight's not going well, and the next thing, Ben 213 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:58,160 Ogden is said to be the headquarters of the men fairy 214 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:00,760 folk as sleeve no man is for the women. 215 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:02,480 That's mad. So the men and the women at 216 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:04,320 different mountains, ah, that's mad. 217 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:07,000 Damn, how it was back in the day, Yeah. 218 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:10,280 How it was, Yeah, yeah, Used to. We used to have our own 219 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:11,400 mountain. We always say what? 220 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:13,240 And when you went to Mass, that was the thing. 221 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:15,000 Women sat in one side, men and daughter. 222 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:16,280 They did, yeah. Weird. 223 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:18,200 But why do you need your own mountain? 224 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:20,360 Because you're not split the mountain in half. 225 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:22,160 I don't know. Yeah. 226 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:24,240 Where did they meet? Yeah, it was the middle. 227 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:25,520 Yeah. Yeah, they had a. 228 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:27,320 Meeting Mountain The Meeting mountain? 229 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,360 I'd like to go there. There is an ice green mound at 230 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:33,080 the foot of the mountain called Playbank, where the fairies are 231 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,880 supposed to hold their revels. On the back or West side of the 232 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:38,680 mountain there is a very large carn. 233 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,200 Tradition locally is that it was constructed after a battle 234 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,040 between the Mcgoverns, who are chiefs of the barony, and the 235 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:49,160 McGuire clan of Fermanagh. On the east side of the mountain 236 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,200 is a very steep precipice from which, according to local 237 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:56,120 traditions, a large portion detaches itself and falls every 238 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:59,600 time a member of a certain family named McGuire dies. 239 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:02,160 Wait, so say that again. So essentially, I think that 240 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:04,400 there's the side of the mountain. 241 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:06,880 Yeah. The legend goes that every time 242 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:11,200 one of the original McGuire clan dies, a stone from that 243 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:13,680 cliffside falls. Oh wow. 244 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:14,520 Which is. Quite cool. 245 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,280 Yeah, What is that video? It reminds me of that video of 246 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:19,080 the man. Remember your man with the fairy 247 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:20,960 tree? And he's like, you ever seen 248 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:22,440 that video? Yeah, and he's worried. 249 00:12:22,680 --> 00:12:24,920 He was told that when the tree falls, he's going to die. 250 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:26,760 Yeah. He's going to die the last he's 251 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:29,200 a family member dies and he's the last one. 252 00:12:29,680 --> 00:12:33,360 So he has it all like fucking nails and tied with string and. 253 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:35,080 And what, that's The funny thing. 254 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,760 And someone asked him, like, would you not have had this is 255 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:41,120 not the reason to have a child, but like, you've not had a kid. 256 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,960 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because then your kid gets 257 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:46,720 worried, yeah. Yeah, yeah, he can worry. 258 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,400 About any kids. Instead. 259 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,080 Of just. That would be very funny if if 260 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,120 the tree never fell and he's just this ancient man. 261 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:56,080 That's like holding up the tree with scaffolding. 262 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:57,320 Yeah, the whole time, just fucking. 263 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:02,000 Yeah, that's no life at all. But yeah, that reminded me that 264 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,480 earlier brought up that there was a White Horse on the side of 265 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,120 that. They mentioned that in the BBC 266 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:10,200 thing that used to be, I assume, a chalk style White Horse like 267 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:13,520 they have in England. But umm, I wonder where that 268 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:15,760 went because it's not there now. I've been Swan Bar. 269 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:18,320 Has been mined out, has it? Erased. 270 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:21,240 It's been a race. Saint Patrick and Cromwell, 271 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:23,800 yeah. And all of that we need to bring 272 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:26,800 back a horse drawing. I want to go up and paint a 273 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,640 horse on. The family referred to live in 274 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,800 the townland of Gordon and Lucknie in the Pan in the parish 275 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,200 of Cannoli. This tradition is said to have 276 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,840 BeenVerified even within the last 10 years. 277 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:40,480 So that was probably the 1930s, maybe 1920s. 278 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,000 Some years ago the Karen on the Mountain was opened by people 279 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,120 from Lord Cole's Castle at Florence Court, County 280 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,280 Fermanagh, Boo. Some of the things found inside 281 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:52,320 were taken to the castle that night. 282 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,640 Such terrible cries went from the Cairn to the castle, that 283 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:59,160 the objects taken were restored next day, and the Cairn pushed 284 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,720 as nearly as possible into its old condition. 285 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:06,800 Persons who went to the mountain to hunt or shoot, and stayed 286 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,200 there till late at night, say they heard very mournful cries, 287 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:14,000 and that they were so frightened they left as soon as possible. 288 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:15,760 Others claimed to have come upon the fairy. 289 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,880 She holding fares on the play bank and buying and selling 290 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:20,960 cattle. That location was swaddling Bar 291 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,000 County cabin location as well. Era county cabin and the 292 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,320 teacher, it was E McCaffrey. It doesn't say who wrote that. 293 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:30,080 I always find it funny that fairies are just doing the 294 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,200 things we're doing. They're selling cows. 295 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:36,160 Yeah, yeah, yeah, they have a bit of magic, but sure. 296 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:39,000 I mean, hurling is magic. There's business to be done. 297 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:40,160 There is, yeah. Yeah. 298 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:42,280 Cattle to be sold. I mean, it's always funny. 299 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:47,160 They always, I think it was it umm, Eddie Lennon, Eddie Lennon. 300 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:49,760 I remember him saying that you should have like live an 301 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:53,320 interesting life because the fairies, they, we talk about the 302 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,600 fairies, but they talk about us. That's an interesting thing. 303 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,320 I hope they do as well. And it does inspire to say, OK, 304 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:01,760 if a fairy's looking at me, I may as well do something 305 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:03,480 interesting. Do you know, I hear that the 306 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:05,080 fairies listening to the pitch rocks. 307 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:09,200 They're my biggest fans. But so they're just loving like 308 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,440 they love an El cattle raid story, you know, I'd. 309 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,560 Say they would. They'd love Michael Collins. 310 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,200 They would. Mattress, Mick. 311 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:22,120 They'd love Mattress Mick 100%. Fuck you deputy staff, that guy. 312 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:24,440 They definitely would have liked that. 313 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:27,880 Did the fairies have a doll? I wonder if that's their well do 314 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:28,720 they have? Vapes the. 315 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:34,360 Fairies of vapes, Yeah, Get. Off this track suits like what 316 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:37,720 is the development of fairy fashion I feel it would be on 317 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:38,800 the right, but it. Would be. 318 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:42,240 It would be on the right. Like a pipe smoking pipes right 319 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:43,240 now. That would be nice. 320 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:50,240 It would be great. So this is a story from in 321 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:53,040 Fermanagh, the ghost of Lord Enniskillen. 322 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:57,960 But 50 years ago me and my comrade went at 2:00 in the 323 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:02,080 night to the playbank at foot of bin to snare rabbits. 324 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:05,800 We weren't 20 minutes there till the nicest music you have ever 325 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:09,600 heard in your life and the noise of thousands of people dancing 326 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:11,200 sounded on the playbank above us. 327 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,480 We listened a while and then got afeared, pulled our Nets and 328 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:18,600 started for Florence Court Domain about a mile away. 329 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:23,040 But in truth it was out of the frying palm into the fire with 330 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:27,200 us, for we had not our Nets. 10 minutes set to the ghost of old 331 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,440 Lord Ennis. Killen walked up to the avenue 332 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:32,760 and into the castle dressed in the style of 100 years ago. 333 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:39,040 Tacky cast her hat, swallowtail coat, knee breeches, pointed 334 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:41,880 shoes and all. We didn't wait to pull the Nets 335 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,720 this time but ran home as if the old boy himself was after us, 336 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:48,760 shaking and in our boots. I had as life stayed with the 337 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:51,320 fairies on bin as see the old Lord. 338 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,720 Nothing came from informant Pat Malana Malanophy, aged 7070 339 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,480 years old, 70. Years old, but that sort of by 340 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:02,080 God. And Kalesher County Fermana and 341 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:03,120 leaf. I had to look it up. 342 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,319 Leaf is an archaic or old fashioned word meaning gladly, 343 00:17:06,319 --> 00:17:10,119 willingly or happily leaf. So I just gladly stayed with the 344 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:13,240 fairies, is what he. Gladly had leaf like relieved 345 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:16,319 almost there. Yeah, yeah, because he was. 346 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,079 They were out with the fairies fucking ball this. 347 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,359 They saw them dancing and they spooked them. 348 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:24,920 So we'll go over here. But who came out only back in 349 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:26,599 the ghost of O Lord and a skillet? 350 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:28,600 And I don't want to see that the planting. 351 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:31,760 Bastard. And they said Jesus, and I think 352 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:33,160 the old fella, what did they call him? 353 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,840 They call him the old boy is a nickname for the devil. 354 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:37,880 He said he's as bad as the old boy, you know, and. 355 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:41,160 Do you think the Lord of Enniskillen was just like one of 356 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:43,520 those old people who hate seeing a good time? 357 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,880 I think the Lord Enniskillen is a is a ghost. 358 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,120 He's a ghost. An old school ghost I love and. 359 00:17:49,120 --> 00:17:52,440 There was he just like fucking shut up, like with the party 360 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:54,280 going on, you know? Maybe that's why it was just 361 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:57,360 maybe they were out of witching hour and and all manners Fairies 362 00:17:57,360 --> 00:18:00,160 were out and and and Lord in because fairies. 363 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,800 I like to think fairies are. I assume they're like rather 364 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,600 than ghosts or like eternal mythical beings. 365 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,760 Whereas Lord Enniskillen existed maybe, as he says, 100 years 366 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:14,800 prior to 1930. So he was just a weird sort of 367 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,720 spectral entity that was do. You think they do you think the 368 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:21,360 fairies get to see Lord Enniskillen? 369 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:23,680 Like do they see him as well? Because obviously at Lord 370 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:27,880 Enniskillen was like a human on our side of Ireland. 371 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,480 But do the fairies? They haven't a clue who Lord 372 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:33,160 Enniskillen is. No, they must. 373 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:34,440 Just they. Don't know the lore behind them 374 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:36,840 in the. I always wonder or assume that 375 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:40,440 fairies are like almost in outside of the realms of the 376 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:44,520 time space. So yeah, to them we might as 377 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:47,600 well be ghosts wandering towards them no more than Lord Eddie. 378 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:50,880 Yeah, Lord Eddie. Lord Eddie. 379 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:53,840 He would have hated that. He would have. 380 00:18:54,920 --> 00:19:00,440 He is not a fan of the podcast. We have a list of various fan of 381 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:02,680 the pocket. Yeah, Laura, the skillet hates 382 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:04,160 it. Hates it. 383 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:07,720 John Moriarty, I hope he would have liked it. 384 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:09,800 Yes, look. Up his big head of air. 385 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:11,080 That's reason enough to love him. 386 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:14,160 Yes. Very arrogant to me to say what? 387 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:17,080 Was it someone said to you when I. 388 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:21,880 Went to the book signing of of lovely man Con Megan and when he 389 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:25,560 did the one on the comparisons between Iceland and Ireland and 390 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,640 I'm almost certain, but I didn't know John Moriarty was at the 391 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:30,240 time. I think we were only started 392 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,480 hanging out maybe literally a week or two after this and he 393 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:35,480 said you're hardly he was. It was a joke. 394 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:37,000 Basically. You're hardly the descendant of 395 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:41,040 or a relation of John Moriarty because I had big head. 396 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,080 I could tell because he was like, never mind. 397 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:48,200 You got let down. He was buzzing for a. 398 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:51,880 Yeah, if I had known a joke, we could have had a little a little 399 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:57,200 Harley. Yeah, but next one, Sun worship, 400 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:02,520 very, very, very short story here and it's nearby to Ben 401 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:06,040 Auckland Green in a town land near Ben Auckland in the parish 402 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:09,680 of Cannoli, contains the remains of a dalman and a half circle of 403 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:12,600 stones, probably connected with the druidic worship. 404 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:17,840 My informant, Mr. F Curran, NT or North Townland of Cannoli 405 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,400 County, Fermanah, told me that according to the tradition of 406 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,600 the old people in the locality. The name Green and was connected 407 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:25,600 with the practice of sun worship. 408 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:27,280 So that's just a little note as well. 409 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:29,080 We can see there was stuff going on. 410 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,480 I back in the day, people loved going up on the hills and the 411 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:35,520 mountains to to do. A bit of sun worship. 412 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:38,920 Do a bit of sun worship, worship or selling cattle with I. 413 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,240 Mean I I still do the same myself. 414 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:42,160 Exactly. It's a. 415 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:43,200 It's a. It's a. 416 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:45,120 It's a tried and tested practice. 417 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,920 Go to the mountain bit of sun worship, step one. 418 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,240 I mean, that's us on fucking jewellery's treatment. 419 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:52,320 Bit of sun worship in the sun trap. 420 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,080 Bring it back, bring it back. They need to talk in horoscope. 421 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,080 That's what we need to do. It's going to be good job on We 422 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,880 need to dress up you the back or no, I'll be the back, you'd be 423 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:02,960 the front. We go dressed as a horse at 424 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:05,280 night and we tell. We're the white mayor. 425 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:10,320 We go, go. Yeah, why would we say Bill 426 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:15,080 Berry let let them drink on the street, Let them Dublin City 427 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:17,360 Council and. Then I dropped some fireworks to 428 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:20,280 make it seem. Then we explode and we're gone. 429 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:22,760 Just two men. Just two men. 430 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:24,920 Yeah, standing there would. Have gotten away with it too. 431 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,080 I'll tell you one thing, I'll. Do that and then you can do we 432 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:31,280 can go into several stories from a man from SWAT from. 433 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,920 SWAT, swat. That's. 434 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:35,760 Oh sorry the nicknames I should tell. 435 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,280 This is the handy thing of what I am very fortunate with. 436 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,120 This area is like. Oh, I live close to it, so you 437 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:42,240 know all the little. Yeah, you know the places, but 438 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:44,000 then. You're a fish out of water and 439 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,800 that's it. When you go anywhere else on 440 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,600 Dukas, you're like, I don't know the intricacies of this. 441 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,360 Yeah, you wouldn't know that. You wouldn't. 442 00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:52,680 Know the ghosts. You wouldn't know the ghosts of 443 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:55,080 the area at all. Oh no, you don't know me. 444 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:58,040 They're not a fan of me at all. Who's this lad? 445 00:21:58,680 --> 00:21:59,680 Why is he talking? About us. 446 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:01,000 I'm the ghost of Venezuela, I think. 447 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:03,920 He wouldn't know me, this lad. Ghost in a scorgie. 448 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:09,480 Yeah, in my father's early days, a travelling woman taking the 449 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,800 near cut. I live a near cut from Florence 450 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,560 Court to Swanambar. Called it our house near the 451 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:18,120 mountain foot. As it was late, they asked her 452 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:21,240 to stay the night. Oh go on, stay the night please. 453 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,080 She pushed on and said jokingly, if benighted I will stay with my 454 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,840 friends and Donna Binia. When she was crossing the play 455 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,840 bank at nightfall, she met an ancient warrior and he said, you 456 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,840 made a promise some time ago and you'll have to keep it. 457 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:39,280 He brought her to a beautiful castle where a wonderful feast 458 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,600 was ready and all the fairies were seated at it. 459 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,320 The woman would. The woman would take nothing, no 460 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,760 matter how they forced her. That's always the story. 461 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:48,840 You don't eat. You don't eat the feckin food. 462 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:50,720 The fairies, no. Matter how hungry you are. 463 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,040 At Daybreak she found herself sitting on the play bank where 464 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:56,240 she had sat down to rest the evening before. 465 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,720 Just when the warrior appeared, she came back to my father's 466 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,360 house and told what had happened. 467 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,840 But from that day till the day she died, she never spoke any 468 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,760 more about it. I always find that so funny. 469 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,440 You see them so much and Duke is where it's just like that 470 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:11,840 happened. She said it once and she didn't 471 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:12,880 say it again. And she's not. 472 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,080 But everyone else did. What's so because it kind of it 473 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,240 makes them not in charge of their own story anymore of like 474 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,280 if you ask her, she'll say it didn't happen, but but. 475 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,760 Don't ask her. But Beckon did happen. 476 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,920 Yeah, ask me. Yeah, tell you about it, I'll. 477 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,440 Tell you what happened. She said it didn't happen, but. 478 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,840 It happened, gossips. Pat Melan. 479 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:36,320 That was Pat Melanophy again, the old seven-year old from the 480 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,560 Glacier County Fermani. He's full of stories, this 481 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:43,200 fellow he is. Northwest of Swanlinbaire is the 482 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:48,120 semi isolated peak of Ben Auckland or Ben Cacalbra, said 483 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:50,720 to be the headquarters of the Ulster Fairies. 484 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:54,240 Tradition has it that Don Maguira, the first Prince of 485 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:57,320 Fermanagh, still haunts the peak, and it is firmly believed 486 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:02,240 that when any of his direct descendants die, a splinter, A 487 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,280 splinter falls. Is that the one you already 488 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:04,720 read? Sorry. 489 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,800 Oh, they're repeating the same stuff that I think it's worth 490 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:09,000 repeating. I think it is. 491 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,920 Get it into your head. Get it? 492 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,840 The splinter fall in the mound. Have you been listening? 493 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,800 Someone's dead now. Just saw a rock fall off and 494 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,240 falls off the rocky face of Ben Auckland, locally called Bun. 495 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,280 Bun. Bun, whatever, whatever. 496 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:26,960 Thank. You, mom. 497 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,720 The Chieftain goes by the name Dunna Bina and he is paid to 498 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,560 preside over the fairies of Fermanagh. 499 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,920 The Dun said to have frequently assisted Maguira in his battles 500 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:42,440 and an instance is preserved where this assistance turned the 501 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,680 seal of a battle fought by Maguira at the Two Mile River. 502 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,560 Maguira has exhausted all his ammunition and he invoked the 503 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:54,520 aid of Dunna Buena, who by his invisible agency strengthened 504 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:58,760 Maguera's soldiers to win the battle by throwing Irish balls, 505 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:03,880 Irish balls, stones. I've never heard of an Irish 506 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,160 ball my life. That's amazing. 507 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:08,800 He's like a, he's like an Avatar look. 508 00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:13,480 What Irish balls are? Legend of Saint Nana OK Nollie 509 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:19,080 Irish balls. Jesus Christ, look a baby. 510 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,600 What the hell are these? They're wonderful. 511 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,960 I know it's are they? Just stone balls. 512 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:25,600 Are they like the splinters that fall? 513 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:30,160 It's like he's throwing his his his ancestors during this war, 514 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,040 maybe that season. And yes, the T-shirts came off 515 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,880 and my T-shirts came off. That's how you know, we're 516 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,240 having a really good episode. I was like. 517 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,120 It's like. You got a good yeah. 518 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,560 Currently our lighters are fucking lit. 519 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,760 Yeah, yeah, we heard Irish balls and the shirt have to come off. 520 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,280 Come off, you're lucky it wasn't the shorts. 521 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:50,360 Not. Yet. 522 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,400 Let's see, Yeah, there's still a minute left. 523 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,200 What was it? No, that's funny. 524 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,480 We've gotten a few things that I like that this gave us more 525 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,000 information on. Remember, ages ago, they said, 526 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:06,840 oh, it's some legendary battle. McGuire, the the the Don Nabinia 527 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,360 came down and helped the people of the area. 528 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:12,040 This confirms that that was there was a war going on and 529 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,880 McGuire soldiers got backed up. Yeah, fairies. 530 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:16,320 Imagine you're. The fairies imagine. 531 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:18,680 You're fighting and ghosts and fairies come down and help you. 532 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,800 At the start you'd. Be like you'd feel what I'm 533 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:23,800 fighting for. This is the proper cause. 534 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,720 Like this is, yeah, this is the ultimate if. 535 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,840 The White Horse is with me. Yeah, I must be doing something 536 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:30,400 right. Something. 537 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,640 Yeah, something. Irish balls to circle in on 538 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:35,200 that. I, I can't find anything to do 539 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,320 with them, but ironically, I did a weird episode ages ago. 540 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,720 I titled it weirdly wasn't very popular, but it was about the 541 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,360 first brain operation in Ireland. 542 00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:47,120 And then I just looked at lots of weird brain related stories 543 00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:49,000 and like medical related stories. 544 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,360 OK. And one of them was the back in 545 00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:54,880 the day, like the likes of Ku Cullen and all the boys, all the 546 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,400 different people. They used to do a weird thing 547 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:01,120 where their enemies did make a brain a ball that was like it 548 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:03,960 had bits of their brain of their enemy in it, but they used them. 549 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,600 They'd like poke them. There was a weapon they'd use. 550 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,680 So I wonder, I don't know if that's what these iris balls I. 551 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,600 Wonder if they'd use brains that hit people with brains I. 552 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,360 Don't know why for. Answering them, have they not 553 00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:17,680 heard of stones like? I think they'd put it into a 554 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,520 stone like lime sort of. I feel the reason they did it 555 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:26,080 was kind of a weird like this has the sole power of that great 556 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,400 warrior in it now. So pocket a call. 557 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:32,440 It'll blow his head. Yeah, I don't know why did it 558 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,120 or. Maybe they're thinking more long 559 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,720 term, like infectious. Disease and maybe they keep it. 560 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,280 Yeah. So remember, bring a bring a a 561 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,680 girl over. You can know this brain ball 562 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,320 here I got from Angus. I killed him. 563 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,160 This is my dad's brain ball. Don't touch. 564 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:48,880 That word. Don't touch that word. 565 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,280 What would you? This is my great grandfather's 566 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,760 brain ball brain. Ball Irish balls in bracket 567 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,400 stone. Yeah, Stone. 568 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,400 Yeah. You have a tourist over, you 569 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,000 just pick up a stone off the ground. 570 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:04,880 We call these Irish. They're like, yeah, they're. 571 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:07,040 Over there, that's an Irish wall. 572 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,680 Yeah, this is, yeah, this is what the like Dopin city tours. 573 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,640 The old Irish tech shop phone. They have crazy Irish balls out 574 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:16,200 there. I'm from. 575 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:21,640 Boston, I've got Irish balls. The spirit of Irish balls are 576 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:26,040 inside of me. When Ireland we saw cliffs and 577 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:27,760 more, we saw the Irish ball. Yeah. 578 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,600 Is that the nice ball like? This ball is the biggest Irish 579 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,080 ball. It's fake facts. 580 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:39,960 Like, yeah, we got such a funny. Word like I will. 581 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:44,360 Never know. It is said that St. 582 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,760 Naglia was not the first hermit who built a cell at Cannoli. 583 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:48,960 Why are we listening to him then? 584 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:54,760 Yeah, it is said that St. Ravarnog lived there before him. 585 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,920 Oh, OK. The handle of Saint Nalia's bell 586 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:02,200 was preserved by a Bartley drum of Shanna Valley about 100 years 587 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,200 ago. None of the local people know 588 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,960 what became of it. The well of Saint Nalia is still 589 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,400 to be seen in Canali graveyard. It is called Tuber Nalia, and it 590 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:14,280 is said to have had in it in its water the property of currying 591 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,680 jaundice after the handle of Saint Nadia's bell was immersed 592 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,200 in it. Anyone with jaundice out there? 593 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,240 You want to go? Yeah, call me. 594 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:27,280 Did you think of that story? Last one about Lock Mcnaya. 595 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,160 Yeah, didn't like it. Yeah, you didn't like it. 596 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,840 Honestly, I wanted to hear the fellow who built the fucking 597 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:34,600 What do you have? The Cave, didn't he? 598 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,840 I like that it cures jaundice. It's a little bit of. 599 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,880 AI like that too. I I thought I am confused about 600 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,760 is I love that like they brought up which is fair. 601 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,480 It must have been a big Canali is obviously named after St. 602 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,440 Nolia because it sounds as such, but I like that they immediately 603 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:54,240 go as if we know assume that St. Nolia was the first hermit and 604 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:58,120 they go but actually it was Saint Ravana when I'm like. 605 00:29:58,320 --> 00:29:59,720 Little correct, I didn't. Know either of them? 606 00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:01,920 Yeah, thanks for the clarification. 607 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,960 Yeah. These Saints, we really need to 608 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,160 have a look at these Saints. There's so many of them. 609 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,000 By God, they're all fucking magical. 610 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,760 I love every single one of them. I do too. 611 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,320 Santos, I want to collect them like Pokémon. 612 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:16,960 Pokémon. Pokémon. 613 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,960 Yeah, we, yeah, we could do that is a brilliant idea. 614 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:25,080 You know, go into each like you collect the Saints around 615 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,240 Ireland, you go around to each of their Holy Wales and you go 616 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:29,640 to. Make an app their little. 617 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,080 Cellar. This is where St. 618 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,080 Kevin has the bird in his hand do. 619 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:35,320 You know what? You'd but catch them. 620 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,440 What man? What Irish balls? 621 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,200 You definitely would catch them with Irish balls, that's for 622 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:46,040 sure. Everything is just a RIP of 623 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:47,560 Pokémon except we put the word Irish. 624 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,240 Irish balls. Yeah, it's Irish. 625 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,880 Too. Wow. 626 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,320 And what? Would be is what's Pikachu 627 00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,400 Pikachu Pikachu? What did he always say? 628 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:00,880 Hope your. Boy is what he's. 629 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:07,320 What, it's going to look fine to get a hurling? 630 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,360 Oh. Actually, we've stolen this man 631 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:14,480 Roger O comedy, great comedian. He made he made like pints men 632 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,320 the game. So he like oh, did he change 633 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,480 Pokémon that or at least he animated and such. 634 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,160 It looks like Pokémon but you picked like. 635 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,440 You either picked the like Guinness farts man or you give 636 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,840 the. Him, I do know him. 637 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,200 He goes to the pub and saying hey, the murder. 638 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:32,640 Yeah, the. Yeah, all that stuff. 639 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:34,280 Yeah, he's deadly. He's a good man. 640 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,680 Oh, no, he's he's got his finger on the pulse and. 641 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,120 The pulse and the pulse. And. 642 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,800 He has my T-shirt off Broccoli Lake. 643 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:49,320 Go on now, your boy. It is traditionally stated that 644 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,360 long ago on the plane where Brackley Lake now stands, a game 645 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:57,000 of hurling was in progress and after the game one of the 646 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,400 players who was thirsty asked an old woman who was standing 647 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,720 watching the game where he could obtain a drink of water. 648 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:08,640 She told him to pull up a clump of rushes which grew nearby and 649 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,960 he would find water. That's interesting. 650 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:15,080 Acting on her advice, he did so, but found that he could not 651 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,760 replace it after he had drunk as the water gushed up too 652 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,320 strongly. Eventually, the spring filled 653 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,120 the whole valley and formed the present lake. 654 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,360 What the hell? That's insane. 655 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,720 That is mad. You pull, you go and pull up. 656 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,120 And who the hell was she? How does she know that? 657 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,200 And do you think she was? Do you think she was trying to 658 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,360 help him and didn't know? Or was she a conniving. 659 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,360 Yeah, A. Witch was she a witch pull? 660 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,920 Up that gas over there. Yeah, that's odd. 661 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,600 I wonder if they were drowned or were they fine? 662 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:45,200 Yeah, did they all just start swimming? 663 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:47,880 Big, informal and who won the game? 664 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,440 It's a good one and. No, I'll do you one better now. 665 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,880 You went through Brackley like I'll take you to Taylor's lock. 666 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,440 Taylor's lock evening. In the town land of leg of Agra 667 00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:00,040 is a small lake called Taylor's Lock and this is how it got its 668 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,400 name. Years ago there lived a bailiff 669 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,080 in Ochna Kelly who was a very severe man on the tenants of the 670 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,400 surrounding estate. At last they met secretly. 671 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:13,080 They decided to kill him and they drew lots as to who should 672 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,480 do the deed. One night as Bailiff Taylor was 673 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,680 coming over the sleeve rustle from Ballyconnell and Cavan Hub, 674 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,840 two men met him and choked him by stuffing Moss down his 675 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,560 throat. Jesus somewhere to go, not his 676 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,160 mouth. When he was dead, they threw his 677 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:33,080 body into the lock and ever since it's been called Taylor's 678 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,600 Lock. Jesus. 679 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:41,800 Tell that's insane. Moss down your throat like it 680 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,680 would be. I'd feel very strange, wouldn't? 681 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:47,760 It take a while it. Probably would. 682 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:48,440 Yeah. More. 683 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:49,760 Moss. Get more Moss, Pete. 684 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:52,840 Yeah. Like did they all just like fill 685 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,800 a load of did they bring up they, were they prepared? 686 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,920 Did they bring a bag of Moss? Because I'd say another way, 687 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,760 when you get Moss and you squeeze, squeeze it, all the 688 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:06,680 water comes in and it goes tiny. Surely there's a easier way to 689 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,080 kill a man? Kill them with them with the 690 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,239 most. Yeah, he's like, he's getting 691 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:13,600 them. What's it called with a 692 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,600 taxidermy? Yeah, he's like he's been 693 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,920 taxidermy in him before he's dead. 694 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,239 Yeah, in real time. In real time. 695 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,840 Those monks that don't, they get that done and oh. 696 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:28,400 Yeah, they in Buddha, in Buddha, in Buddha land. 697 00:34:28,679 --> 00:34:31,880 Yeah, they they. Don't know if we'd be offensive. 698 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,320 Hey, we do like them. We love you guys. 699 00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:37,960 But yeah, they they get themselves mummified while 700 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:42,280 they're still alive and then they die inside of their 701 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,199 mummified stupor. Is that a word, man? 702 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,159 Me stupor. Me stupor pooper. 703 00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:51,040 Scooper stupor. My aunt named Mcgovern's Fort. 704 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,360 Mcgovern's Fort. Fort or Dune In the townland of 705 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:59,600 Gort Moor there is a Fort. It is on the farm of James 706 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,200 McGovern. This farmer had a cow which 707 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:06,480 invariably visited the Fort each day, morning and evening. 708 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:10,520 When the cow grew old he sent his workmen to the fair to sell 709 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,520 her. When the servant was in the 710 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:16,000 fair, Mr. McGovern went to the field in which the Fort is 711 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,000 situated to bring home his cattle. 712 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,800 And while he was up there he heard, as he thought, a child 713 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:26,240 crying, and he thought he heard the voice say, You may cry away. 714 00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,520 You will be hungry now as the cow is sold. 715 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:36,000 No, every time he approached the Fort for for some time after, he 716 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,000 could hear them crying. In fact, it only stopped when 717 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,120 one of his cows got the same habits as the one he had sold 718 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,720 and began paying two visits daily to the Wrath. 719 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:51,560 Wow. That is from PO Reen tear from 720 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,880 tear Cahan County Cavan. Yeah, that's that's lovely, 721 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,760 isn't it? It's nice to think, yeah, he's 722 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,160 the fairies are like and it's like the little baby fairies. 723 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,040 It's like a child crying. Isn't that weird though? 724 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,800 So. Moderately coming over and 725 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:14,120 being. Helping the 1st Northwest, The 726 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,640 Swan on Bar is the semi isolated peak at Ben Auckland or Ben 727 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,360 Cocklebra. That's the first time I've heard 728 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,160 that Ben Cocklebra, said to be the headquarters of the Ulster 729 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:25,680 Fairies. Go on. 730 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,840 Tradition has it that Don McGuire, the first Prince of 731 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:30,480 Fermanagh, still haunts the peak. 732 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,120 It is firmly believed that when any of his descendants died, a 733 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,120 Splunk. A new one new word we have 734 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,680 Splunk splint to this is splint spleen and. 735 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,600 Then just whatever someone else like a. 736 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,240 Splunk. Yeah, Spunk Splunk. 737 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,720 Falls off the rock face of Ben Auckland, locally called Ben. 738 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,400 Ben, we won't be a bench of Ben. The official words. 739 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,720 What scree? That's the Geo geography. 740 00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,160 Covered in the screen. Yeah, can't come out tonight. 741 00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,520 I need a shower and scream. What was it? 742 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,680 The Irish balls, man. Irish balls, Yeah, that's what 743 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:06,600 buzz balls are. Buzz balls. 744 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,360 This Chieftain goes by the name of Don Nabina and he is said to 745 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,240 preside over the fairies of Hermana. 746 00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:15,960 The Don is said to be frequently assist as to a frequently 747 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:19,000 assisted McGuire in his battles. And an instance is preserved 748 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,440 where this assistance turned to scale of a battle fought by 749 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:25,120 McGuire at the Two Mile River. So we heard of this McGuire had 750 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,920 exhausted all his ammunition and he involved the aid of Donna 751 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,880 Binya, who, by his invisible agency, strengthen Mcguire's 752 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:36,120 soldiers to win the battle by throwing Irish balls. 753 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:37,800 This is the same story again, isn't it? 754 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:41,480 It's the exact same story, but. Is it by a different person? 755 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,520 That's crazy. The story is that's that's the 756 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,800 beauty of oral storytelling. They all get it right. 757 00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,000 What the hell? Except for the spunk. 758 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:56,440 And this is written by James McGovern, who was the one who 759 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,480 Mcgovern's Ford we talked about earlier when the cattle 760 00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,880 happened. So James McGovern, that's crazy. 761 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,080 I think that's why I put the previous one we had about the 762 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,120 cow. Go on this man, that's telling 763 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:09,040 the story here. It's also him pet the cow. 764 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,120 The one that's his land that so the teacher said the story about 765 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:18,560 the the cattle, but it's about this fellas land and good luck. 766 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:23,240 It is similar, more or less. Must be cool to have land that 767 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:25,680 all these magical things are happening in. 768 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,880 You know, we have two more stories you'll be glad to hear 769 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,480 and then we're out of your hair. We won't bother you anymore. 770 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,960 We're finished with big boys story. 771 00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,000 We could go back and forth on this and then one team let. 772 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,480 Me read big boys story Big boys what the is that the name of it 773 00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:46,000 Big boys story? Only stay around if you're a big 774 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:47,720 boy for this one because it's scary. 775 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:52,960 In old times the Mcgoverns had a fortress there but their leader 776 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:56,840 Maliki was killed and not a blade of grass or Heather grew 777 00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,960 on that spot since grass never grows where blood is spilt. 778 00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:04,480 Whoa, there is a fairy. That is a statement grass. 779 00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,840 Never the old sayings. Grass never grows where blood is 780 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:08,960 spilt. That's yeah, clip that put. 781 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,360 That on a tea. Yeah, put that on a tea album. 782 00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,960 Album put. That on a teapot like my grand 783 00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,000 teapot east of the strangest saying. 784 00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,520 Grass never grows where blood is spilt. 785 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,120 There is a fairy castle on the mountain and a fairy named 786 00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:31,560 Binoglund, his commander there. A Weaver lived in the butt of in 787 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:33,600 Ruckerfield mountain, not far from Bin. 788 00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:37,040 A man from Swanlinbarre was going to the Weaver one evening 789 00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:40,400 to get some cloth spun. When he was going away, his 790 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,280 father told him to hurry or knight would overtake him. 791 00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,160 Arah, he says. If. 792 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,160 If it does, I'll spend the night with Ben Athen. 793 00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:52,880 That's a classic. We've heard that one before. 794 00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:55,120 I'm sure everything will be fine. 795 00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:59,000 Yeah, it's usually when someone says this, they just get home 796 00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:00,800 nice and safely. That's so funny. 797 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:01,840 Yeah, that's usually how that is. 798 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,200 Yeah, me. I suppose I'll be met by a man 799 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:11,080 with a big axe. Sure his horse won't have a 800 00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:11,680 head? Yeah. 801 00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:14,680 Brilliant. He'll be eating throw iris balls 802 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:18,560 at me. Weirdly specific. 803 00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:24,400 Well and good he went and coming back off him who he did, but Ben 804 00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,320 Auckland himself, of course he did he. 805 00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,160 Promised to spend the night with me, says Ben Auckland. 806 00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,720 So come along with me. He had no power to refuse, and 807 00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:37,240 soon they were in his castle. He was brought into a room with 808 00:40:37,240 --> 00:40:39,800 a good fire and put sitting by the fire. 809 00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:43,560 He refused food and a drink for if touch either with its good 810 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:48,280 people, they can hold you for good, everyone knows that. 811 00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:52,720 Everyone. Everyone knows that, but he just 812 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:53,600 everyone knows. That. 813 00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:58,040 So Ben Auckland told him to stop at the fire till Daybreak and 814 00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:01,560 pass no remarks on anything he's seen or heard. 815 00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,680 He was no time there till crowds of people were coming in and 816 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:07,680 going out, and they kept at that all night long. 817 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:08,960 The. Morning of a festival. 818 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,720 Yeah, you can hear. Everyone chatting as the JBL 819 00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:14,680 speaker going off somewhere. Yeah, those people that never go 820 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,760 to sleep at a festival, they're just yeah, you sleep once. 821 00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,920 You just hear like crisps someone opening a packet of 822 00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,160 crisps you. Always hear someone going over 823 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,480 they're looking for James and then someone might have the the 824 00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:33,040 the the audacity to go like. Shut up, shut up. 825 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,360 I'm trying to get a good night's sleep. 826 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:36,560 You're bothering. I have a. 827 00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,880 Podcast to go to the. Morning, Tommy's here. 828 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:41,800 Tommy's here to talk to someone. You don't see the Piss World 829 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:42,760 podcast. Morning. 830 00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,720 I have to go, I've got to go. I've got to have a good night's 831 00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:46,800 sleep. I do. 832 00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,080 And the fucking with Irish balls. 833 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:51,680 The first five people to get there get an Irish ball and. 834 00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,920 I want an Irish ball. What was I even saying? 835 00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:58,480 Yeah, he noticed that going out of them, everyone dipped their 836 00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:02,040 head in something like a tub of water that was at the door and 837 00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:06,600 rubbed it on his two eyes. So that's how you get out at the 838 00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,520 break of day. When he got Benocton's back 839 00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:12,080 turned, he met for the door, dipped his hands in the water 840 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,960 and rubbed it on one of his eyes. 841 00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,440 Away with him and he never stopped till he got into Swat. 842 00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:22,520 Swan lumbar, safe and sound. There was a fair day in Swat 843 00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,520 soon after this and he was in the fair with one of his eyes. 844 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:30,120 What did he see but a crowd of these little people in the fair? 845 00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,240 It's very people. He saw your night in Ben 846 00:42:33,240 --> 00:42:36,400 Auckland's Castle, so he only washed one of his eyes with the 847 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,720 water so his other eyes can see the fairies. 848 00:42:38,720 --> 00:42:42,560 I love that they were stealing sugar sticks, cakes, apples and 849 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:46,040 Peggy's legs off the standings that were on the street. 850 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,320 So I don't know any of those sweets, but that's great. 851 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,840 Well apples I know and cakes but I don't know what Peggy's legs 852 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,200 are. They were running into the pubs 853 00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:55,920 and drinking all that they could get their hands on. 854 00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,360 No one could see them except this fellow, and he asked them 855 00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,400 what they were doing, and the fairy turned and said, You can 856 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,800 see me. I can, says the fellow. 857 00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,800 I can see you with this eye pointing to his right. 858 00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,960 With that the little man rammed the stick into his right eye and 859 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,320 put the eye out of him, and there he was with the one good 860 00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:17,600 eye to the day that he died. And now we came from Pat McHugh 861 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:19,240 of Brackley. What the hell he? 862 00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:24,360 Doesn't want to be seen, he. Probably shouldn't have told him 863 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,480 that he could see that, but then it almost would be weird to see 864 00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,440 the little fairies bouncing around the whole the whole I 865 00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:32,640 live long day. I'd love that life though. 866 00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:34,840 You just go into a festival. And you can, yeah. 867 00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:37,200 See the kings bopping. Around. 868 00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,160 I wonder if they. Party with us at the festival. 869 00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,960 Party. Yeah, and they somehow have 870 00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:47,120 influence over our parties. The party's better if the 871 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,080 fairies are at your party as well. 872 00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:51,960 Another man was working near Beson Mountain with a man named 873 00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:54,880 Wallace, and he was coming home about nightfall, and he looked 874 00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,840 around him and he heard a noise. What did he see but a funeral 875 00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,160 coming behind him? He laid, he laid down in the 876 00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,600 furrows one side and covered himself up with long rushes to 877 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,840 let the funeral pass. He's pretty nervous. 878 00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,520 He's so nervous. What a hide. 879 00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:13,040 Yeah, what a what's the word like? 880 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:18,760 That's very respectful. Just as they were coming near 881 00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:22,280 him a bear of the coffin broke. What would we do for a bear? 882 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:23,760 Says one. What would we do? 883 00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:28,200 Only get the man in the rushes. Oh, when some when Pat heard 884 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,640 this up he got and got a hold of his tongue between his fingers 885 00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,080 and never stopped running till he landed on the road. 886 00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:37,600 He could run like a hare. And this happened 50 years ago. 887 00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:39,440 Location to hack and county cabin. 888 00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:42,200 And that was PE Orion again. I think what happened there was 889 00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:47,640 he saw a fairy, a procession, and I'd say if they involved you 890 00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:50,240 in holding the coffin you'd be outweighs the. 891 00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:52,200 Fairy Land starving for the night as well. 892 00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,320 Yeah, you'd be stuck. You'd be stuck. 893 00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,040 And not an I was eaten. Anything. 894 00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:58,880 Did he say he got a hold of his tongue? 895 00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:03,400 Oh, what that was? So he just next time you see a 896 00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:07,160 fairy, just get your tongue, hold your tongue and run like a 897 00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:08,840 hair I. Wonder why he held his tongue. 898 00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:10,200 I don't. That's an interesting 1 like. 899 00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,760 I heard a lad say at the weekend, he was saying when they 900 00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,200 used to do you know that stretch you do in GA or anything where 901 00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:18,480 you lift the one leg and you're trying to stretch out your 902 00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,160 hammy? Yeah, that hold in your your 903 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,000 opposite ear. I remember that, yeah. 904 00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:25,560 Yeah, yeah. I don't believe in it really. 905 00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:27,120 I use. I prefer the tongue method. 906 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:29,400 Did you? Do you actually not believe in 907 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:30,240 it though? Or did you? 908 00:45:30,240 --> 00:45:32,800 Nah, well. It's he said. 909 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:39,480 It works. How does that work and. 910 00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:44,040 That I'll paint a word picture call is standing and he's he's 911 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:47,320 stretching his hammy. He's got his foot up to his is, 912 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:50,480 he's got his right foot up to his right arm and he's holding 913 00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:52,120 his left ear with his left hand actually. 914 00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:54,400 Very it's actually working. It's working. 915 00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,440 I think it just gives your two sides something to focus on. 916 00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:01,880 Yeah, balance. Oh, this is very short. 917 00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:04,960 It says in County Fermanagh there's a mountain called 918 00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:06,560 Binocul that doesn't help. That's. 919 00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,040 Every single story there's a mountain in without. 920 00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:11,840 There's a man on the top of the mountain. 921 00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:16,040 He's haunting it. In County Fermanagh there is a 922 00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:19,480 mountain called Binoculan. It is a lovely round mountain 923 00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,680 and in olden times a giant is said to have lived there. 924 00:46:23,720 --> 00:46:27,720 It is told that this giant threw a stone through an Irish ball 925 00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:33,680 from the mountain into look urn. When the stone fell, it sank 20 926 00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:36,360 feet in the water. It is also told about the giant 927 00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:40,560 that he threw a stone from the Moat of Quilka to the top of 928 00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,520 sleeve rustle. So he did a reverse he. 929 00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:45,760 Did it both sides both. Sides. 930 00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:48,520 Just like with the foot and the the the ear. 931 00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:51,120 There's Have you seen the Giant? You're from these places. 932 00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:55,000 I always I did I think I I think I might know is the dress drum 933 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:56,360 cullion county cabin. That's all right. 934 00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,280 Informant is Thomas McGuire, so definitely. 935 00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:02,280 Related. To yeah, related to the ghosts 936 00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:05,160 and the fairies. He's 84 at the time and he was 937 00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:07,840 from Cobra Woolly. Goprolly. 938 00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,600 GoPro woolly County cab goprolly. 939 00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:13,520 Goprolly. Goprolly, are you wearing your 940 00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:17,080 GoPro woolly? We Cobra, Willie, you're Cooper. 941 00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:20,320 But are the Mcguire's still in county capital? 942 00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,760 Tons of Mcguire's. Tons McGuire. 943 00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:30,320 Need to see what the crack is with these bilberries. 944 00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:32,360 And got we're going to go and we. 945 00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,800 Need to eat them and who knows, maybe you'll see. 946 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:37,400 We do need to. That's a goal. 947 00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,320 Maybe we'll go. We want to do more. 948 00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:41,640 You'll be seeing a lot more of call. 949 00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:46,920 You're going to be, hey, we want to go. 950 00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,920 I want to do some field trips. Sunday the 26th though early 951 00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:53,080 July to September. Perfect, OH. 952 00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,040 So. Mid-july, end of July is 953 00:47:57,080 --> 00:47:59,160 perfect. Bill, I set the date set. 954 00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:01,160 Set the date. Set a pile of people to a 955 00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:01,800 mountain. That we will. 956 00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,640 Bring your Irish balls. Someone could come and try and 957 00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:07,520 so Irish balls those. We can't be terrible. 958 00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,720 That wouldn't be good. We'll need to call upon the 959 00:48:10,720 --> 00:48:15,000 great horse. The white, the White Horse, 960 00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:16,480 we're going to be up there in a horse costume. 961 00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:18,880 That would be so funny. That will give them, it will 962 00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:20,440 give you an Irish ball for your troubles. 963 00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:23,920 What will we say? What the fact did the horse say? 964 00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:34,360 Guys, we hope you enjoyed we did this beautiful episode. 965 00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:41,080 If I do say to myself about Ben Auckland horses, what did you 966 00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,800 take away? What was well, what was a 967 00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,360 surprising thing that came about in that episode for you that 968 00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:49,800 you'll hold on to do? Definitely Irish balls. 969 00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:51,520 I think Irish balls for me is also I. 970 00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:54,080 Think it's just a beautiful image, like it can be so many 971 00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:55,640 things. So many things. 972 00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:57,240 Stones. Stone. 973 00:48:57,240 --> 00:48:59,640 Rocks. Something more perverse. 974 00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:01,840 Something. Maybe. 975 00:49:02,240 --> 00:49:05,960 Something more magical? Perhaps it's like some sort of 976 00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:10,480 magical so maybe we just don't know what an Irish ball is and. 977 00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:13,600 Lost time it's. Lost to time, There's Yeah, 978 00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,080 maybe it was brains. Squished brains, as you said, 979 00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:19,280 just throw brains. But guys, we want to do more 980 00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:23,280 episodes on the mountains and rivers and all fields and stuff 981 00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:26,040 of Ireland, and we'll pitch ourselves up on them and we'll 982 00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:28,960 find a few stories for you if there's any locale you want us 983 00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:30,760 to go to. Don't be a stranger. 984 00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,360 Don't be a danger. Yes, it's me. 985 00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:40,000 Cyberbully me. It's our Instagram, the the old 986 00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:43,520 Patreon is there for anyone who wants to buy us a coffee or 987 00:49:43,520 --> 00:50:33,480 equipment guys. Music. 988 00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:43,160 By Gareth Quinn Redmond Photography by Alan O Muraku.