Castettmarch

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: It was further related to me how Castettmarch was once upon a time inhabited by a very wicked and cruel man, one of whose servants, after being very unkindly treated by him, ran away and went on board (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "It was further related to me how Castettmarch was once upon a time inhabited by a very wicked and cruel man, one of whose servants, after being very unkindly treated by him, ran away and went on board a man-of-war."

• attestation: undertook to question various people in the neighbourhood about the meaning of the name of Castettmarch (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "undertook to question various people in the neighbourhood about the meaning of the name of Castettmarch."

• attribution: Furthermore he induced him to shell his old master's mansion; and the story is regarded as proved by the old bullets now and then found at Castettmarch (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "Furthermore he induced him to shell his old master's mansion; and the story is regarded as proved by the old bullets now and then found at Castettmarch."

• attestation: But having got so far as to find that there was a wicked, cruel man associated with Castettmarch, I thought I should at once hear the item of tradition which I was fishing for; but not so: it was not (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "But having got so far as to find that there was a wicked, cruel man associated with Castettmarch, I thought I should at once hear the item of tradition which I was fishing for; but not so: it was not to be wormed out in a hurry."

• attestation: However, after tiring a very old blacksmith, whose memory was far gone, with my questions, and after he had in his turn tired me with answers of the kind I have already described, I ventured to put it (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "However, after tiring a very old blacksmith, whose memory was far gone, with my questions, and after he had in his turn tired me with answers of the kind I have already described, I ventured to put it to him at last whether he had never heard some very silly tale about the lord of Castettmarch, to the effect that he was not quite like other men."