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  1. The Local Roads

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    The names of the old local roads in the district are, Abbeydorney road, Ballysheen road, Lerrig road, Baltovin road, Killahan road, and Ahamore road. Those are old roads made 85 years ago by means of the board of works. The men that were working in them were getting a shilling a day payment. The road called Abbeydorney road leads from the village down to Ballysheen on to Killahan cross, then on to Ahamore direct to Causeway. The Ballysheen road leads from Tubrid to Kilgurbin and then to Rasconnell. The Lerrig The Lerrig road comes from Lerrig to Baltovin on to Killahan and on to Ballinclogher. There is an old by-road still used from Leary's house in Fortwilliam down to Brassils and on to the Ballysheen road. It was a school road to Ardrahan. It was made a century ago. There is an old school=path leading from the Parkhouses through Ardscoile to our school. There was an old school path from Lon an Chnuic and Ballihenery to Killahan school. There is a mass-path leading from Killahan to Kilbricane. There are no big rivers or bridges in the district. In olden times it was the custom to have an all-day Sunday dance in summer at Killahan cross. There

  2. Names of Fields

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    "Gleann Maistín" in Timothy Duggan's land at Tonaknuck. "Páirc na Sule" in Peter Kenny's land at Doire Bhroin. "Cúilmhinúr" in Maurice J. Lawlor's land in Killahan. The "Fegrish" in Patrick Healy's land in Killahan.The "Coinigéan" in James Dillon's land in Killahan. "Tobar na Greine" in Timothy Duggan's land also. The "Corrúnach" in Tom Connor's land in Ballinclogher.

  3. (gan teideal)

    “There was a big Church in Killahan long long ago where the churchyard is now.”

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    There was a big Church in Killahan long long ago where the churchyard is now. The people of Killahan bury their dead there. There is but one tomb in this churchyard which belongs to the Leanes of Killahan. There is a cross in it also, and a statue of Our Lord. The cross is painted white and black. It is rather new having been erected by the Flahertys. There beside it the Flahertys are buried.

  4. Another Short Story

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    One night a man from Killahan was passing Killahan church-yard about 12 o'clock at night. He met a woman, whose head was turned away from him, and thinking, she was a certain person, he reached for her to turn her face towards him. When he attempted to catch her, he felt nothing between his hands, and the object disappeared. A cold sweat broke out through him, and he

  5. (gan teideal)

    “There is a well in John Connor's field at Ahamore called the biolar.”

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    There is a well in John Connor's field at Ahamore called the Biolar. There are two spring wells in Mrs. Healy's fields in Killahan, one is called Tobar na Gréine, and the other is called Tobar an Tae. There is a well in Maurice Lawlor's land at Killahan called the Tobar Dubh.

  6. An Old Tale

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    Long, long ago there lived an old man in Killahan named Mick O'Shea. He earned his living by carting turf to Tralee every day. In a donkey's rail he used take the turf. In those days there were no clocks or watches in Killahan, and Mick wasn't much use at guessing the time. He got up one night about 1 o'clock, and thinking it was about six o'clock, he set out in search of his donkey. She had wandered far from home, this was

  7. The Abbey

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    belongings to him and to his son in case he himself turned it back to the crown.
    In the thirty-ninth year of Elizabeth's reign, a portion of its property was "granted" to the rector and fellows of the Protestant College of the Holy Trinity, near Dublin.
    It is now a shapeless ruin.
    In Killahan there are the remains of an abbey and the surrounding enclosure is used as a churchyard. There are crowds upon crowds of people buried there. The coffins are up in top of one another there and the people are now forbidden to bury their dead there anymore.
    The people of Killahan and all around there carry their dead from here to Killflynn, Ardfert, Kiltorney, Clogherbrien, Kilsinan, Kilfeighney, Rath. The Soldiers Plot, Bully Acre, and the New Burying Ground in Tralee, and Killury and Kilmoyley and to churchill and to Annagh and to Killahan, but about half of those who die in the Parish of Abbeydorney are buried in the Abbey.

  8. Ainmneacha Páirc

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    Paircín Caol in Healys' farm in Killahan
    Tobar na Súile in Maurice J. Lawlor's in Killahan.
    Tobar na Gréine and Páirc na Lice also in Maurice J. Lawlor's in Killahan.
    Páirc na sidhe in Mrs. Lawlor's in Killahan.
    Cúlmhínfhéir in Maurice Lawlor's also.
    Inse Mór in Maurice Barry's land.
    Ros Cillín in Maurice Barry's land.
    Páirc an Aitinn in Jim Callaghan's land.
    Páirc a leacteáin in Jim Callaghan's land.
    Goirtín na gCapall in Jim Callaghan's land.
    Páirc Gaedheal

  9. (gan teideal)

    “The old people in Killahan firmly believe that the Headless Coach goes through Killahan once every seven years, and winds up it's journey in the churchyard.”

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    The old people in Killahan firmly believe that the Headless Coach goes through Killahan once every seven years, and winds up it's journey in the churchyard.
    Some time ago a number of people met it one night. They saw that the horses had no heads, and they recognised people in the coach who had been dead for a number of years.

  10. (gan teideal)

    “There are eight or ten acres of glebe land in Killahan which one time belonged to the monks of Killahan Church.”

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    There are eight or ten acres of glebe land in Killahan which one time belonged to the monks of Killahan Church.
    The landlord of the place was Lord Cork, then it came into the possession of the Crosbies of Ballyheigue. Later with the Purchase Act it became the property of a man called Conway Hurley, and then it was bought out by the tenants whose descendants hold it now.

  11. (gan teideal)

    “It is said that Loughlin O' Doolin was the name of the head friar in Killahan Church, up to the time that the monks had to leave it.”

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    It is said that Loughlin O' Doolin was the name of the head friar in Killahan Church, up to the time that the monks had to leave it.

  12. (gan teideal)

    “There was a man living in Killahan named Thomas Halloran.”

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    There was a man living in Killahan named Thomas Halloran. One night he was going towards home with a donkey and cart and he had no lamp for his cart. He thought of a plan. He took his donkey out from under the cart, and tied him to the heels of the car, and himself pulled the car along. He had to pass by the hut where the police lived in Killahan, and as he was passing by, a policeman came out, and asked him for his light, but the man told him to go back and ask the driver about it.

  13. Notes on Church History Connected with the Parish of Abbeydorney

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    Ardfert. Probably the Abbey lands included Ardfert. At any rate a part of the two parishes belongs to the Crosbies.
    The church of Killahan is very ancient. It was built shortly after the time of St. Brendan. It is said the churches of Killahan, Kilmoyley, and Killury were founded by three sisters named Eatha, Maoile and Muire or Maire.
    Cloun-na-Metagh was owned by tenants of the Abbey of Kyrie Eleison.

  14. (gan teideal)

    “The Cross which is standing opposite Killahan Churchyard on the opposite side of the road is supposed to be there over three hundred years.”

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    The Cross which is standing opposite Killahan Churchyard on the opposite side of the road is supposed to be there over three hundred years. It was perfect until the time of Cromwell. Some of his soldiers were very active around Lixnaw, and it is supposed that a cannon ball thrown by them from Clohercannon broke one of the arms of the cross. When the arm was broken off it is said that it remained bleeding for two or three days. The blood stains are still pointed out on it.
    Some of the stones from the old Church in Killahan, are supposed to have been used in building the present Church in Abbeydorney.

  15. Old Songs

    “There isn't Cork or”

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    There was a song made up long ago by Maurice O"Connell of Derrevte [?] who was a moon-lighter in olden times and the song he made up was about the bobbies of Killahan and This is the song it is.
    There isn't in Cork or
    Kerry or in Limerick
    or Kildare
    Suck a pack of
    bobbie hunters from
    Killahan to the
    Dale
    There is the stitcher
    at the cross Maria
    Lazirus at the
    Dale.
    The O'Donnells (and )
    of Killahan and the
    Healys at their
    tails

  16. The Local Roads

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    is a heap of stones and earth below Killahan school and it was an old custom to throw a stone in the heap whenever a person passed by, and also to pray for the dead. The reason for this was that a man was killed there many years ago and it was the custom to throw a stone on the spot for years afterwards. Thus it happened that the mound came to be there.

  17. Short Story

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    A man was passing by the grave-yard in Killahan late one night in November and he saw the whole church-yard full of women dressed in white. He ran home in a terrible saothar, and arriving breathless he told his people what he had seen. He went to bed, where his body was found cold in death next morning.

  18. (gan teideal)

    “Many years ago there was a Church from the graveyard in Killahan across the road to the old Cross in Flaherty's field.”

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    soldiers were pursuing the Fitzgeralds (the Geraldines who occupied Lixnaw) with all their property that they hid the heaviest of their valuable in the bog. It is said that they left a sow and twelve bonhams made of gold in the bog and that they sank down through it. All the old people agree that they lie under the surface of the bog, somewhere between Rattoo and Killahan