& the next minute there was nothing to be seen except the green fur-bushes & the yellow blossoms upon them.
Joseph Hammersley heard the following (just as we all heard it repeatedly) from Jim Dwyer, Cahernahallia, Doon parish, Co Tipperary whose father worked on the job.
When they were building Power's Cottage in Knockane my father was working on the job. They met with a lot of trouble in one way or another. The pegs were removed 3 or 4 times & the scaffolding fell on them 2 or 3 times. This day they were standing on the road & some of them sitting on the near ditch of the road after eating their dinner. They saw the little man coming down from the fort. They put no great [?] in him as they thought it was old William, Billy Crotty's father. He was a small little man & used to come there every day.
Mise Why J. Hammersley :Because that part of Knockane was an out-farm of his at the time. It was since you came to live here, Sir, that he sold to Ryan, Mangaire. Well they saw him coming down beside the ditch from the "cnocán": With that the scaffolding was landed out on the middle of the road but there was no one hurted. The scaffolding was knocked 2 or 3 times after that. Weren't they bold daring men to stick it. When the cottage was half-roofed the slates were blown

off by the sidhe-ghaoith. Poor Power wasn't long lying in it when he was drowned in about a foot of water or less. There is an iron cross marking the spot as you know.When the foot and mouth disease first came to this country about 50 years ago, Crotty's had their cows in Knockane. They went to drive them home. There was one cow that they couldn't get out of the field by no manner of means. She was wanted, She never gave more than a half ration of milk. The good people used to take the rest of it. She was the only cow that didn't take the distemper. She was surely wanted.Old ? who had Hammersley's pub in Toem formerly had that field about 90 years. There was a big flag of a stone on the surface the field near the fort. It was greatly in

not the middle of the stream, but the middle of the ditch and a tree on this ditch without my neighbours permission can be without mine [The murder trial (Hogan & Hanley) who ? in Dublin on Sat 16/?/37 originated in a dispute about the tree who grew on the boundary between their farms.] The embankment to the east shows the former width of the stream, or the eastward limit of its meandering OR marks the brink of the monks' mill-dam. It is quite evident from topographical features extant that this was formerly site of ford. The greatest width of the stream, OR of the dam or of the ford or of the oscillation in the meandering stream was 70-80 yards.
Following this stream down 1/2 mile from Toem we find that it marks a boundary of neither field, farm, nor townland is at present a few yards north of the boundary between Baronies Killnamanagh & Clanwilliam.The Sappers marked Butlers fort Knockanstanella (? Book 1) older inhabitants hold that ? ? fort marked is the real Knockaun-na-staneela, but possibly they base their claim on ? that A stands in townland of Knockane (? Cnocán). The Sappers classed "cloc a' puill" (Co. Carlow) as an ?

not the middle of the stream, but the middle of the ditch. I cannot cut a tree on the ditch without my neighbour's permission; neither can he without mine. [The murder trial (Hogan and Hanley) wh. finished in Dublin on Sat 16/x/37 originated in a dispute about the tree who grew as the boundary between their farms]. The embankment to the east shows the former width of the stream OR the eastward limit of its meandering OR marks the brink of the monks' mill-9dam. It is quite evident from topographical features extant that this was formerly site of a ford. The greatest width of the stream,or of the dam, or of the ford or of the oscillation of the meandering stream was 70-80 yds.
Following this stream down 1/2 mile from Toem, we find that it marks the boundary of neither field, farm, nor townland and that it is at present a few yards north of the boundary between Baronies of Killnamanagh and Clanwilliam.
Which is which?
The Sappers marked Butler's Fort as Knockauna stoneela (Vide Book1) older inhabitants hold that the great fort (marked A is the real Knockaun-na -stoneela, but possibly they base their claims on fact that A stands in townland of Knockane (pron. Cnocán) The Sappers classed "cloch a'phuill" (Co Carlow) as an Ogham!!!