Treasure is supposed to be buried in the Castle of Killesk. On a moonlight night the moon shines in through some hole on a flag, and under this flag gold is supposed to be buried. One night two men went to dig in the castle for gold but did not find it. In recent years as a man named James Barron of Killesk was ploughing near the Connebar he found a bar of gold, also a gold breast-plate of a shield of a King.

Killesk walked to Wexford at the age of seventy years leaving Killesk at eight o'clock and arrived home early the same evening, another man from this district could jump over three horses with straddles on them.

An old road runs through Mr Byrne's field in Tinnock. This road was used when the road from Campile to Killesk was not made. This path is a short cut from Carrownree to Campile. The road from Killesk to Campile was made in the Famine periods.

Killesk Castle is now the ruins of a castle which was built by the Normans. It is believed to contain some hidden treasures which consists of gold sovereigns. It is said that a big black bull is minding it. Long ago when the old people were hiding this money they sacrificed an animal or a person who was to come and guard the money, and a bull was killed to mind this treasure. Two men ventured to look for this money as they heard of it being there. They brought shovels and spades with them to dig for it but it was all in vain. This castle is situated in the townsland of Killesk on Mr Colfer's farm.

About forty years ago people by the name of Hennessys lived in an old school in Killesk. These people used to

A mass stone can be seen in the townsland of Killesk at a place known as the Conibar on the land of Mrs Colfer. It stands by the river bank that divides the townsland of Ballykerogue and Killesk. The field in which the stone stands is known as "The Mass Field." There are three shelves cut on the stone also a cross. In the Penal days of 1680 mass was celebrated in the conibar and many other lonely places on the Ballykelly side of Slieve Coillte mountain.
Mass was also said and there is still a land mark on the Rock on the top of Slieve Coillte mountain.
One day the priest was hunted by the English soldiers they had him

About eighty years ago school was taught at night time in Whelans barn in the townsland of Killesk. It was taught by a man named Pat Cullen. There was no blackboard used and slates were used by the children to write on. The chidren were taught to be fishermen, and sailors, and carpenters, they brought a little money each evening to pay the teacher.The ruins of an old school is to be seen in Killesk by the side of the road. A teacher by the name of Mrs Murray from Dunbrody taught these. This was once a fine school but now it is in ruins. Teaching was carried on for some years there, and then a new National School was built by Mrs Murray at her own expence. Then when it was built she was not allowed to teach but she did so for three years without any payment and after three years she got the money which was owed to her.

of yesterday and yet a hundred years have rolled by since he was laid to rest with his fathers in the old family vault in Ballyhack.Father Barron's family settled in Campile, after they were expelled from their ancient patrimony at Killesk by the Cromwellians. They are a numerous scept in the Barony of Shelburne. By commercial pursuits and skilful farming, the Campile branch of that grand old Norman stock rose to almost as great a pitch of social splendour, as when their ancestors held the Killesk estates. When prosperity returned to them, they did not forget the ancient church, for which their ancestors sacrificed so much. They gave her priests and they gave of their wealth to build and beautify her temples.Father Barron was one of the grandest ornaments of

corruption of the word Conghmar. There were gold found there some time ago by a man named James Barron of Killesk. There was a battle fought there in the time of Cromwell. In the Penal Days there was Mass said there, and the Mass stone remains to be seen there still. Long ago this stone was placed on a high piece of rock overlooking the Connebar, and one time the yeoman threw it down into the glen.

There was a severe thunder-storm about thirty years ago. It happened on the 15th of August. It lasted for five or six hours.
There was another heavy one forty years ago. The lightning struck a pier belonging to my father and knocked the top off it, this lasted for six hours. It was the greatest storm ever known lasting for six hours. The wind blew and knocked many large trees, and houses, and ricks of straw, also the zinc roof off a house owned by James Haughton of Killesk, was blown off and one of the rafters was broken.
There was a big wind about forty years ago. It stopped the tide from coming into Campile from the cooley. There was also a severe rainstorm and a flood about fifty years ago, it carried stones out of a gap that was dividing two field into the middle of a river and the water carried the stones a long distance.
There was a severe snow-storm about seventy years ago. It drifted as high as Mrs Blakes house in Killesk the eve of which is about ten feet high. There was another great snowstorm about thirty years ago, people from Coole by the name of Walshes had to dig an arch in the snow to get out. A funeral occured

There are accounts of giants living on the mountain of Slieve Coilta in olden times. They are said to have thrown stones from the mountain to a place called the Conibar in Killesk a place three miles distant. The stones are pointed out there still. One day the two giants got angry with other one of them pulled a larch tree out of the roots that was grown bear the place and struck the other on the head with it and killed him. He then made a hole twenty feet long and eight feet wide and buried the dead giant in it. The place is still called the giant's grave. There are no accounts of hags living in this district. People do not tell how huge giants were

The landlord of Killesk was Mr Tailor. He was a very bad landlord. There was a song made about the landlord. There were evictions and plantings made in Ballykerouge. When they were evicted they put up sheds to stay in and more went to America and Australia
There was a battle fought with battering

if the English soldiers came on they would capture the priest or put him to death.A story is told about a priest named Fr Meyler Harristown who was saying mass on the hills on Christmas night. He was captured and shot. The remains of some of the mass stones used in the penal day can be seen to day. There was one in Killesk. A priest named Fr Downes (?) was a parish priest in Nash for 40 years. Poor scholars were learned men who went around from house to house teaching the children. They taught Latin to young boys.

65portion of the Townsland - about 200 Statute acres were around the Mansion. They formed the Townsland of Killesk, about 4 miles from Cloonsharragh, having rented this from The Marquis of Ely.
Under the same conditions O Reilly had 3 or 4 townslands from Lord De Villars in Co Waterford.As an evidence of his high, social, standing, John Power OReillys father, was the first Catholic, to act as Magistrate in Co Wexford.

Local Ruins
Story no.1
There are four castles in ruins in my district namely Rathimney, nash, Boley and Ballygarven.
Rathimney castle new Ross, Co. Wexford is in ruins over 400 years. It was built by the Prendergasts after the norman Invasion of Ireland. Part of the castle only now stands the rest of it was converted into the dwelling house. It is believed that King James slept a night in this castle after his flight from the battle of the Boyne There is a tunnel going from Rathimney castle to Killesk castle Co. Wexford. There were some beautifully cut stones in [?] probably the work of ancient sculptors. The greater part of those were taken unnoticed. About thirty.

A field on our farm is called Breens field. It is called Breens field because a woman by the name of Mary Breen owned this long ago.
Another field on our farm is called the soldiers corner. Soldiers were buried here long ago when the rebellion of 1798 broke out and this is how it is called the soldiers corner.
A field on Mr O Shea's farm is called Daniels Haggard. It was called this name because a man named Daniel Hennessy owned this field. He lived in a house which was built on this land.
A field situated on the farm of O Connor of Killesk is called the park. It got this name because long ago many games were played here and because it was never tilled hence "the name" páirch" meaning a green field.

In years gone by my Grandfather and a neighbour of his were going to a wake one night in Killesk.
They were not far on the road when they both heard a woman screaming in the distance and the woman was saying
"Where will I go or what will I do"?When they had gone about two and a half miles, they came to a field which was high over the road and they looked up at the ditch and here they saw the woman and she was screaming. She told the two men that she went for milk early in the evening and she was carried up in the clouds with the milk in her hand but that she never spilled one sup of the milk. The men brought her home and the

pupils attended six of whom were Protestants. Hilary Webb, a Protestant teacher and Mary Webb, a Catholic teacher taught there. They worked for twenty-seven pounds a year.
No schools were carried on in farmer's houses but there was a school held in a cow shed at Ballybrazil with the attendance of forty children.At Oldcourt there was another school, with the attendance of one-hundred and sixteen children. The teacher was Martin O'Hanlon. His school was a thatched cabin.There was another school at Killesk with seventy children. Patrick Ronan was the teacher. He worked for fifteen pounds a year. The teachers who were strangers lodged at farmer's houses. Subjects were all in Irish. The subjects were, sums, writing, catechism, and reading. The teaches remained in the parish all the time. The children were sitting on the