Glenflesk and Barraduv the boundary being the Abha na Creithe. Therer are two churches, one at Glenflesk (in the townland of Ruisín Mór) and the other in the village of Barradubh. All to one side of the river is called the parish of Glenflesk and the part at the other side is called the parish of Barradubh. Though the two combined form the parish of Glenflesk the portion called Glenflesk is much smaller than the part which is called Barradubh.Formerly there were two Parish Clerks one living near Glenflesk Church and the other living near Barradubh Church. The last Clerk who officiated in Glenflesk was Jerh O Donoghue - He was known locally as Jerh Nance becauyse his father was called Pat Nance. The habit of calling people after the mother is fairly common when the father dies and leaves a young family. In this case Jerh and all his brothers and sisters were called after their grandmother.At the age of 30 years Jerh emigrated to America about the year 1910 and since then the work of Parish Clerk is performed by the Priest's Boy and an Altar committee and Altar Boys

of Glenflesk traded in cattle and as was the custom until recent years and even yet practiced to a limited extent James Donly drove a number of animals from Glenflesk to a fair in Tipperary. He was accompanied by his brother-in-law, a man named Cronin of [?] who lived between Barradur and Glenflesk. They sold the cattle and had £100 which was a big sum of money in those days. They set off walking towards a certain town which was on their road home to Glenflesk. One part of that road was very lonely and in those days (over a hundred years ago because several of James Darby's children were born before the Famine) many robberies had been committed at that spot. As they came near the place they crept along the side of the road, on the grass and they bent down and listened. They heard the whispering of the robbers and they thought they were lost so they doubled back again and crossed the fence and away with them across the country until they came to a wall. When they crossed it they found themselves in a graveyard

The flax was pulled through these spikes which cleaned the tow out of it. Until cotton became common a quantity of tow was kept in every house and it was used by the priest when rubbing off the oils after annointing a person.
As a boy I remember very many people coming to our house for a piece of tow.
My mother was two years older than her sister Mrs Cronin. They were of the family of Lucy and were born and reared at Cúm a'loch [?] in the parish of Glenflesk near the Count Bounds between Glenflesk in County Kerry and Ballyveourney in County Cork. Though they married at the age of twenty-three they were then as were all the young women of their time, skilled in the use of the spinning wheel and the flax wheel. Flax was last grown on my father's farm at [?] Glenflesk about the year I was born (1894). It was cloved and hackled and ready for use but was not spun until about the year 1908. It spent about fourteen years in a wooden box and when taken out was in perfect condition. I saw it being spun that time.
There were professional hacklers

Travelling from Headfort to Glenflesk by road one comes to a turn on the New Line called "The Turn o' the Castle" between Draumcarbin and Burreal in the parish of Glenflesk. On the left is Curreal Mountain and on the right are Draumcarbin and Curreal Bogs. Standing between the road and the mountain is a lump of rock about 40 feet high. In the days of princesses and wands the lump of rock was a castle owned by a princess and the bogs were a beautiful demesne.
She had two sons and when she was getting old she called her two sons and said she was about to divide her property between them. The sons quarrelled over the suggested division and she settled the dispute by taking her magic wand and striking the place changing the castle into a rock and the demesne into a bog.

family were drowned and their bodies were found down near Garrie's bridge near Glenflesk. The raid did not fall in any of the surrounding townlands and any body else was not drowned but a Lynch girl who was walking near the river and was overtaken by the flood. Any of Lucy's family did not live and the tailor was the only one from the house who was left to tell the tale.

in 1601 when proceeding from Killarney to join Carew, then besieging Dunboy. The passes from Killarney at Derrycunnihy and Glenflesk were closely guarded by O Neill's troops under Captain Tyrrell so Wilmot chose this intermediate route travelling it dead of night over Mangerton (2756 ft.) and thence to Kilgarvan and on to Dunboy.

There once lived a woman in the parish of Glenflesk. When she died she would not leave any stranger sleep in her bed. Once there was a servant boy in the house who slept in the bed and as he was sleeping a foxy woman stood over him. She was looking very angry and she caught the boy and threw him inside the bed. He took no notice as he thought he was dreaming but when he awoke next morning he found himself inside the bed.

I saw candles made thus hundreds of times in my own native home in Ruisín Beag Glenflesk, Killarney up to the time I left it in 1914. They were often made since that time from goat's tallow and I often made them.

It was not down long enough unless the hair came off through the action of the lime. If oak bark was then buried again with the skin it became too hard for kicking with the bare feet in the opinion of Pat Lyne. He tells me that when he was a boy the only dressing the skin got was the original coating of lime. When the hair was removed the skin was stretched on a door to dry after which it was sown into shape with leather thongs.The tube (?) was a cow's bladder. A football tube is still called a bladder by many people about here. In Glenflesk the skin of the dog was pulled over a small put from which the legs were filed off.On one occasion the members of the football team met at Killaha in the parish of Glenflesk. They had a dog-skin but no pot. They knew that a small pot which would suit was outside the back door of my grand-aunt's house but all the men

LEATHER MAKING: (Football Cover and Bladder)It is not made locally but men of sixty years of age and over remember seeing leather made for making the covers of footballs. One of the men who actually helped in the making of a football cover in this way is Pat Lyne, who is steward at Lord Kenmare's Farmyard Killarney. He was born in 1879 in the Quarry Lodge near where the Moving Bog started.My father James O'Donoghue (Seamus a' Curraidh as he was called because my family belong to the Curraig clan of the O'Donoghues) was born in 1841 where died in 1908 at Ruisín Beag, Glenflesk, Co Kerry. He and his brothers (and they were seven in number) played in Glenflesk Team and had charge of the football. I of ten heard from him how the balls were made.The cover was made from a dog's skin. The skin of every dog was not suitable and it was only the best fed dogs which were not too big were killed for this purpose. Every member of the team was on the look out for a

when older people met at their houses they often and often related their own experiences and though they advised against the practice and condemned it the children looked forward eagerly to the time when they would have similar experiences.The amount of fish destroyed in this way was enormous. I heard of a man who was captured by the police after killing a "hen" salmon. An expert at the trial swore that the killing of one fish meant the possible loss of twenty-five tons of salmon.About 1905 the I.A.W.S. started a Loan Bank in Glenflesk with a view to helping farmers through small loans at Interest which was calculated at the rate of 1 d per £1 per month.My father was chairman and the members, men advanced in years, held weekly meetings at our house. After each meeting members of the committee and borrowers sat around the fire were I heard many stories of the exploits of some of them who had been poachers in their young days.Mike Kelleher of Tullaha in the parish of Glenflesk was a noted fisherman.

I hear my Uncle Connie O Donoghue Ruisin Beag Glenflesk Co Kerry relate often that when he was a young fellow about 1860 he was fishing for trout along a little stream which ran through part of his father's farm. The stream ran under a little gullet and Connie lifted one of the flags which covered it. There he saw an eel with a head as large as a calf's. He dropped the flag quickly and ran home for a pike but

and not more than two hounds are left after a hare. The old hunting rule was that hares were not to be coursed any month that did not contain the letter "R".When a hare runs into a gullet where he remains or tries to escape into a rabbit burrow or Clochar it is a sign that he is worn out.Formerly hares were reared as pets and if a remarkably big hare was killed the skin was stuffed and kept as an ornament but neither pets not stuffed hares were allowed in a house where there was a young married woman fearing future children would be born with hare-lips.Some people do not like hares. The are considered uncanny. A man in Glenflesk came across a hare dragging a snare and the piece of wood to which it has been fastened. He raised a stick to strike the animal when it shouted and he thought the animal said "Mike don't strike me". When a hare is wounded he cries like a person. A man in Glenflesk brought home a hare and it was put boiling. When the woman of the house thought it was boiled she went

the horse. Reidy Seáin gave the whole year looking for his horse. All his crops were rotted. It failed him to get his horse. When all the efforts he tried had failed him, he went to a fortune-teller and told his story. He wanted her to tell him where the horse was. She told him that the horse was near the sea and his maine clipped. He was in the stable by day and working by night. And she told him not to try for the horse anymore that he would never see the horse again. Name Con Kelly 13 years 9 January
Address Carrigavana Glenflesk
Name Mrs D Kelly 62 years 1 May
Address Carrigavanna Glenflesk

princess. He was struck by her beautiful appearance and begged the dwarfs to allow him to take her home. After some time they consented and the prince set out on his journey. He was not gone very far when the coffin got a jerk and the apple fell from the princesses mouth. The prince was delighted and immediately he arrived at the palace he announced the wedding. Invitations cards were sent out to all nobles and a great feast was got ready. The prince and princess were then married and they lived happy and if they didn't that we may and when they will be drinking coffee we will be drinking tay.Name Shelia Donoghue 15 1/2 years
Address Killaha Glenflesk KillarneyName Michael Donoghue 48 years
Address Killaha Glenflesk Killarney

Once upon a time a man lived in Muckross and was ordered to keep charge of the grave-yard. There were a lot of men working there. One day the man ordered them to throw back some of the earth from one place to another. There was one man there and when he was throwing the earth off a grave when he saw a woman. The woman asked him what was he here for and what was he throwing back the earth for and he said that it was their own business and she hit him a stroke of her fist and knocked him. He got up again and she hit him a stroke in the mouth and put it back under his ear and was that way for life.Name Owen Spillane 14 yrs 28th July 1937
Address Lough Quittan GlenfleskName John Counihan 42 years
Address Lough Quittan Glenflesk

There is a fort near our farm that is surrounded with bushes and trees. Long ago fairies lived in this fort. They had white horses for riding them and they used never come out by day. Then at night they used be riding the horses around the fort and they used be singing and dancing and playing music. Soon after the fairies disappeared the people by the names of Counihans used to feed their cattle and horses there. One year they ploughed some of the fort and they got the fever out of it and they died except a couple of them living yet.Name Owen Spillane 14 years 28th July 1937
Address Lough Quittane Glenflesk KillarneyName John Counihan 42 years 25th February
Address Lough Quittane Glenflesk Killarney

more shillings for it. This fox had cubs in a den and each of them had a gold chain around their necks. He killed the cubs and made more money out of the gold chains.Name Owen Spillane 14 years 28th July
Address Lough-Quittane GlenfleskName Richard Spillane 28 years
Address Rossalia Glenflesk

they went home.
After that they were never again seen any where or the horse was not seen by anyone.Name Owen Spillane fourteen 28th July
Address Lough-Quittane Glenflesk Co KerryName Jack Counihan forty years 13th April
Address Lough-Quittane Glenflesk Co. Kerry

bottle do your duty as before. The two little men came out this time. They had two sticks. They did not have a bit in the house but they broke and they also left the landlord half dead on the flower. So Mike took home the bottle and lived happy after. Name: Denis Murphy 14 years
Addrress: Killaha GlenfleskName: Con Murphy 50 years
Address: KIllaha Glenflesk