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  1. Old Graveyards

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    There is one graveyard in the Parish of Causeway and it is called Killury graveyard. In the Parish of Ballyheigue there are two graveyards, Balyyheigue and Keel, and also in the Parish of Ballyduff there are three graveyards named Rahela, Rattoo and Kileen.
    In Ballyheigue graveyard there is a Protestant church and the Parson comes there every third Sunday from Tralee to read the service, and the Galgures and Fitzells of Kilmorthy, and Isaac Kidd of Ballyheigue come there to listen to him because they are Protestants.
    The majority of the graveyards are sloping to the south and very few of them are level. Trees are growing in the Killury and Rattoo graveyards.
    On the graves there are crosses and some of them are ornamented and others are not.
  2. 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.
  3. (gan teideal)

    The townland of Clashmealcon of the caves is in the parish of Killury and in the Barony of Clanmaurice in North Kerry

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    The townland of Clashmealcon of the caves is in the parish of Killury and in the Barony of Clanmaurice in North Kerry. There is 32 families living in it at present and it has a population of over 200 people.
    Neills is the most common name in the locality.
    They were all mud walled thatched houses long ago and in some of the houses there was no chimney but a hole out through the thatch and the smoke was coming out through the hole and the door.
    The houses were knocked down and
  4. 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.
  5. (gan teideal)

    Cashen River - casán - a 'path', this river being the path or way into Kerry.

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    Ballyduff Church was not where it is at present - was near Garvey's formerly. Present belfry in chapel belonged to an old Protestant church in Killury near graveyard.
    There is no limestone in the parish except in one field in Clounlogher in Gerald Connell's land, near Glounerdalive Cross.
    Tin, or something like it, found at a depth of sixty feet in a pump being made a local creamery some years ago.
    Melcon - A great builder like the Gobán Saor. Designed or built wonderful buildings at Clashmealcon.
    Holy Wells - There are many holy wells in the locality, one at Lisnagoneeny, one in Lower Knopogue (Tobar a leighis) dedicated to St. Brigid, and one in Rattoo demesne long since closed to the public, and to which people came from Limerick and Clare and where many miraculous cures were worked.
  6. Old Poets

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    There was an old poet in Clashmealcon long ago and his name was Seán Caoc Ó Cearbhaill.
    He died in the year 1848 after the famine and he was buried in Killury.
    His father and daughter were great poets and when it came on his daughter the gift of poetry left them.
    He made a great song about Rattoo and the Guns for Lord Gunn.
    He was a poor labouring man and the old people say that he had no learning.
  7. Killury Graveyard

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    At Ballinoe Mill there lived a man known as Jack O'Counihan the owner of the Mill. One night he was home from the Causeway fair and he was drunk. He went into Killury grave yard and fell asleep. He woke in the middle of the night and when he saw the moon shining he thought it was day. He now was sober enough to make his way home. He sat up and looked around him and while he was pondering as to where he was he saw a rat coming out of a hole on the ground with something in his mouth.
    When he put it down on the ground the man saw it was a gold coin. The rat went away and came back with another one and kept doing this till he had a great heap made. Then he started drawing them back again to the hole. When Jacko saw this he threw a stone at the rat and killed him. Then he gathered the coins and put them into his hat and made for home as fast as he could.
    He was afraid that if he told his family about the gold they would think he robbed someone. He said to himself that the would hide
  8. Old Ruins

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    There is a ruined castle in the school district about three miles from here and the name of it Castle Brown.
    It was built by the Normans in the twelfth century. It is about seven hundred years old.
    It is derelict for the last three hundred years.
    It is in the parish of Killury in the barony of Clanmaurice in County Kerry and in the townland of Clashmealcon.
    All the castles along the coast were attacked the time of the Desmond rebellion.
    The old people say