One day two chieftains named Clancey came to Glenade from Dartry. When they came to the boundary between carraduff and maugheramore a small stream attracted their notice. The stream ran down from the mountains and when it reached the mearing between Barraduff and Uaugheramore it formed two smaller streams. One half of it ran down the hill and the other upwards until it lost itself in Glenade Lake. The men then named this valley "Glenade," because they concluded that the two streams quarreled and then parted from each other in a fit of jealousy.

Lisbaby is the name of a place north of Barraduff. There is a fort there which is covered with brushwood now. Long ago it is said that unbaptized babies were buried there and ever since it is called lios báibe or the baby fort.

The river Owenacree at a certain point divides the townlands of Barraduff and Readinagh about centre ways on these townlands there is a cascade or water fall in the river from which the water has a drop of about twenty feet and by the side of the cascade in the Readinagh side there is an opening or fort in which a person could walk without any interruption for a considerable distance about twenty feet underneath the surface of the land. On several occasions men have endeavoured to examine the interior. They found several rooms on each side and went as far as their lights would last. When they travel a certain distance the foul air extinguishes their lights with the result that they have to turn back

This district is alive with memoirs of the Anglo-Irish struggle 1919-1922 - scenes of ambushes- monuments - remains of temporary internment camps
The village of Barraduff is now nicely prospering Twenty years ago it was a mere hamlet. All the mud cabins are converted into comfortable looking homes. The church of the Sacred Heart enlarged and re-constructed twenty seven years ago by the then parish priest Rev. J Browne now Archdeacon Castleisland is situated in the centre of the village. The parishioners bless him for his great work.

twisting three rods one about the other.
There are two further buinnes before he makes the saiteán or bottom of the basket.
The ribs are doubled in the saiteán.
When the weather is bad the basket maker has a hard life and very readily catches cold because he has little movement and as the occupation is seasonal he suffers terribly from pains in the back until he becomes accustomed to the work.
But what is worst is that he has sometimes owing to the weather, to give up work.
Beside Barraduff School is a farmer named Denis Thade Shea who makes his own baskets.
He hit on a plan for working indoors and this was it - he cut green sods in a field and brought them into the floor of his house. He stood a rib in each sod and worked away. He is about sixty five years of age but is remarkably stout and found it difficult to work "under" him.
A colleague of mine who teaches in Barraduff School is Donnchadh Ua Conaill. He is forty five years of age and was born and reared at Bearna in the parish of Glenflesk. His father was an extensive farmer part of whose lands were

James Cotter was executed by Colonel Dan Cronin for complicity in Captain Rock's (White-boy) rebellion at Shinagh cross.Colonel Cronin offered him his freedom on condition that he turned informer. This Cotter refused saying, "No, I'll put no child crying for its father or no widow crying for her husband. Nobody will cry for me but my mother and she'll soon follow me. You can make frost nails of my bones if you have no command over my soul." Shortly after the execution two bullocks were reported stolen from Colonel Cronin; the Colonel's "paid informer" swore that he saw two Healy brothers from Barraduff ? ( Cnoc a' Chapaill near Rathmore Co. Kerry) stealing them. They in return could prove they were at Killarney market selling potatoes.

However their proof was ignored and they were hanged at Barraduff bridge. A few days after, the bullocks were found drowned in a bog hole in Clounts. When the Healy boys' mother knew that they were innocent she came on her knees before him and cursed him saying "Your neck will kill you too, but it will not be with a rope, but far more agonising torture." He developed a growth in the throat which deprived him of both food and drink and he eventually died of hunger and thirst and in great pain.After the death of Colonel Cronin there were four men appointed caretakers of the Rathmore House. (now the Presbytery) On the first night of their vigil they were all in one room, Instantly the light was quenched and all four were gripped by some supernatural invisible force, raised to the ceiling and dashed to the

About the year eighteen hundred a spirit was supposed to haunt Beál na deega near Barraduff. There was a wonderfully strong man and an athlete living in the district named Darby O Riordan. He was going the way one night and was attacked by the spirit. He succeeded in repulsing her and made his way home. But this did not end the matter. She waylaid him again and again. He was returning one night from a wake with two other men. She attacked him and kept fighting him for three miles of the road and was unseen by the other two men. Within a quarter of a mile of his own house the other two men turned down a cross roads to their homes. They forced him to come with them but he refused. In the morning he was found dead about a field from his own house. Bealnadeega after this was shunned by all and the Spirit became a byeword of terror in the district. It is said she was finally banished

An Old StoryAbout fifty years ago a bean-rdhe haunted the district known as Bealnadeega about a mile to the east of Barraduff. The spirt used to appear on the road from time to time between the hours of twelve and two O' Clock at night She was very vicious and caused the death of at least three men. People were afraid to pass by Bealnadeega at night. But one man who was a native of Meentogues resolved to go one night and if possible to kill her. He went on horseback and fought the beam-rthe [?] for over an hour. It was a fierce struggle he succeeded in killing her. The old people say - signs of the struggle were seen on the road for days. The man reached home exhausted and covered with

Legend re origin of name of district Glenade.
Some time after Parthalon's landing on the Island of Ines Somer in the mouth of the River Erne at the town of Ballyshannon one of his sons with several attendants penetrated so far inland as Glenade. The reached Glenade Lake on one of their hunting expeditions.
Near to the lake there is a townland called barraduff some three miles from this school. In the downland there are two streams. These two streams run parallel from the mountain. they almost run side by side for a considerable distance. Then without and cause so far as the human eye can see no hill or obstacle of any kind coming in their path, these two streams turn off in opposite directions one going north to the sea- Donegal Bay- and the other going south and entering the lake.
The Parthalonian Prince and his attendants halted when they came to the natural wonder and one of the attendants

Fairs were held in Dromach, Crosstown and in Barraduff.
Dromach fair was abandoned because the tolls were too high. The toll collectors charged the same for two year old cattle as for yearlings. This led to a fight between a man known as Long Con Connor who owned a farm in Glencollins and Leader who was a toll collector. Owing to the fight the fair was abandoned.
Crosstown fair was discontinued because no cattle were brought there and it was too far away from any town.
Rathmore fair was discontinued because no cattle were brought there. A pig-fair is held there once a month now.
Knocknagree fair-field was owned

get the Volunteers off this guard and to give them an opportunity of seeking refuge in the hills. At 4 o'clock on the morning of the 6th of June one of the most extensive and important military operations chronicled in these neighbouring counties took place. The different parties of military converged on the hills through different roads. The Cúm party went through the Rath Beag road. The Gallan party proceeded through Mount Horgan to Sron School. Another party from Gallán went towards Barraduff and thence to the hills via Cill Cuáin. The ascent of the hills had begun before all the people living in the neighbourhood of the hills had risen. Persons who were out on the mountainside caring sheep were amazed to find that the ring of steel had been formed. In their fright on innocence they ran towards the top of the mountain to be met by military approaching from the opposite side. Greater terror seized them and still they ran but the rifle-bullet was too quick for them. Two innocent men were shot dead those being Cornelius Moynihan, Srón aged 40 years and unmarried; John Donnelly, Reidh Dronnach aged 34 years and unmarried. Some others were made prisoners but were afterwards released.
It is worthy of note that the whole ring of Military conerged on a place known as "The Lodge" near Clydach where the 5th Battalion of Kerry No. II Brigade had been in training in the middle of May. Four dismantled motor-cars were discovered discovered near the place. Nothing else was found.
From the 6th of June to the 11th. July (the day of the Truce) nothing of any great importance occurred. There was sniping at the Barracks on two occassions - 29th June, 10th July. On the 1st day of Nov '21 the R.I.C. vacated the Barracks and the people of Rathmore Vil-

Headford Ambush
This is about Headford (Co. Kerry) Ambush. In the year 1921 an ambush took place at Headford (Kerry) which caused great excitement in the neighborhood.
A large number of the IRA gathered together from different places armed with guns and ammunitions to meet their enemies, who were coming by train from Kenmere, and when the train was nearing Headford, the alarm was given by the leaders of the IRA, who told his men to prepare. Shots rang out in every direction, and two of the soldiers were killed instantly.
The commander of the IRA met his death (Dan Allman (Listroy, Kerry)) and one of his men called Benty.
The other made their escape through the mountains until they landed at Barraduff (Headford, Co. Kerry). Blood was flowing along the road at Headford (contd)

3rd November 1938.
The local fairs are held in Killarney, Knocknagree, and Castleisland. Fairs are usually held in towns but sometimes they are held in villages such as Knocknegree and Rathmore. Sometimes buyers but young calves throughout the country. Some times ago fairs were held in Barraduff and Scarta-glin. People say that Knocknagree is built on a fort. It is also near a cemetry but there is nor castle near the village.
In most towns there is a fair-field but in Castleisland there is no fair-field. The man who sells and animal pays toll. He pays fourpence a head for the strong cattle and threepence for the small cattle. When an animal is sold the buyer gets "luck money". When the bargain has been made the parties show their argument by striking hands.
When animals are sold they are marked by rubbing a piece of mud on the flank, or by clipping the hair off the side of the animal. Halters or ropes are never given away except when a horse or a colt is sold.

At Patrick MacSween's house at Meall an Eich Kit Shaw died of fever during the famine and was buried without a coffin at Sean Shéipéal cemetery.
In Jerry Buckley's back-yard in Gort An Athain Buidhe East may be traced the ruins of a chapel which come intermediate between the Sean Shéipéal of Cnoc an Lisin and the present church at Rath Mhor. The clerks house is still standing. There is also to be seen the excavation and coping of Father Sylvy Sullivan's vault where his remains were later removed to near Ráth Mhór Church. There is a tombstone (somewhat like the kerbstone used to protect gate pillars) in center of the yard whither some people from Killarney come occasionally to pray for the person whose remains are interred beneath. Local tradition says there were two priests buried here and that the remains of both were removed. The visitors seem to imply that the remains of the second priest were not removed.
Formerly this cemetery was called Séipéal Sylvy or Sylvy's Chapel. Latterly it has come to be called Sean Shéipéal or the Old Chapel. In this way it has become confused with the Chapel in Cnoc An Lisin and very many people now do not know of Séipéal Sylvy at all. Such a keen antiquarian as the late Canon Carmody was nine years pastor of Ráth Mhor before he heard of it.
On the main road from Barraduff to Sionnach half way between the old R.I.C. barrack and Cios An Chubaire (Cooper's Cross) a passage goes south into James Meade's of Gort Na gCloch. The rain falling west of the passage flows into the Caladh Mhagh and thence into the Abhan Mhór and out to the sea at Youghal Harbour. Water falling east of the passage flows through the Beithineach and Abhainn U Chriadh

There was a fair held in Dromach Crosstown and in Barraduff. Dromach fair
was abandoned because the tolls were too high. The toll collectors were charging the same for two year old cattle as for yearlings. This led to a fight between a man known as Long Con Connor who owned a farm in Glencollins and Leader who was a toll collector. Owing to the fight the fair was abandoned.Crosstown fair
was discontinued because no people used bring cattle there and it was too far away from any town.Rathmore fair
was discontinued because no cattle used to come there. There is a pig fair held there once a month now.

Knocknagree fair-field
was owned by Cronin Coltsman before Mr. Breen bought it. The tolls were three-pence a calf or a bonham and six-pence a cow or a pig and ten shillings for a horse.

stopping. (A feeble attempt has been made in this year (1938) to revive the B'desmond Fair D. Ó M.)
There was a fair in Boherbue which Kanturk fair spoiled.
The failure of cattle to come there destroyed the fair in Barraduff.
There was a fair in Tower about twenty years ago and it failed because of the failure of cattle to come there.
Pig fairs in Kiskeam and Cullen also failed.
The custom for a cow was sixpence, for a heifer- four pence, for a calf - threepence, for a horse ten shillings.
The people gave luck if they liked.
The mark on some of the animals was the letter x or v or three lines.
When the colt was sold the halter was given. No tying was given with the cow. A ring was not given with the bull.
Knocknagree fair was the largest about

Gort na Shean mBhuidhe. It was called so from yellow Jack Mahony and was named by a woman who lived there before Jack, who said
A Chone do bheidh aer acu
Beidh sí go léir acu
A chone do bheidh aer acu
Ag clann Shean Buidhe.Ceann Aérac. Counted airy through it being haunted by the fairies
Corran. Because it is the shape of a cup
Srón. Because it is in the shape of a mans nose.
Radh Doire Neac It being between two hills Stagmount and Barraduff
Oileán na gCapall. It being one time stocked with ponies
Dubh Corrig. It having a black

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Local Place Names
Bromore - The great mansion
Ballybunion - The townland of the Bunyans
Lisselton - The fort of St Eithne
Sliss - Borderland
Beale - The Mouth
Tullamore - The big hill
Carrigane - The Rocky ground
Faha - The sports green
Kilconly - From Connla who destroyed a monster
Sliss - Borderland
Littor - The wet side of the hill.
Killeton - The church of St Eithna
Barraduff - The Black top
Ballyegan - The townland of the Egans
Ballyeigh - The place of the O'Heas.
Kilcolman - Colman's Church
Tullane - The pillar stone
Tullabeg - The small hill
Doon - A fort
Barna - A gap
Dirra - The wood of the oaks