There are four graveyards in my parish. Namely Gaile Ballysheehan Little Church and Ardmayle. All of those graveyards are used. They are ruined churches in some of them. They are all square in shape. They are people buried in the ruined

But Eamon's faithful friend came to the rescue and shot Lee dead. Both then escaped from the house.The price on poor Eamon's head was very tempting. One summer's day while asleep in a field at Curraheen Holyford his head was cut off by his cousin who put it in a bag and took it to Clonmel to claim the reward. At Ardmayle bridge he met a man who said "Did you hear the news Eamon A'Cnuic was pardoned yesterday by Maud of Dundrum". "Oh, God" said the man with the bag "and I have his head here". In disgust he threw his head into the Suir. It was later recovered and buried in Ardmayle. His body is buried at Curraheen, Holyford. A white-thorn tree marks his last resting place.
"The mountain Cavern is my home high up in the crystal air
My bed is the limestone iron ribbed and the brown heath smelling fair".

and the man not knowing who he was said "There is a terrible man going round by the name of Ned of the Hills and everyone he meets he shoots them" and Ned of the Hills said "I am the man" and he told him that Ned of Hills would harm nobody only those that would inform on him and he told the man to pass on. Then the soldiers said that they would give a reward to anyone who would bring them the head of Ned of the Hills sot there were some people who killed him at Foilacluig near Hollyford and they were bringing his head to Clonmel when they heard that he was freed and some say that they threw his head into the moat of Ardmayle.

There is a conspicuous Long Stone of Giant's Grave Clonmel. It has one incised and one raised cross. It seems to have been the custom to inscribe Pagan Stone Age monuments with crosses to divert the people from the worship of pillar stones. I presume pillar stones to be of the period preceding the Bronze Age. There is a romantic yarn afloat that the Long Stone of Giants Grave was brought from Ulster to mark the graves of some of Hugh O'Neills' cavalry, who fell in the Cromwellian War. Besides other reasons to the contrary there is the convincing one, that if this stone is not an ancient monument, belonging to the site, the place would not be called "Giants Grave".
The Mote of Tullamaine, north of Clerihan paish, is one of the great earthworks of Ireland. It was originally a Bronze Age burial mound, but utilized by the de Burghs as a mote. (Norman fort). Like the smaller works at Lisronagh it was called Rauhana Chorartha/ The mote of Castletowngeoghan in Co. Westmeath is similar but rather smaller. The Bronze Age earthworks, near Boyle, Co. Roscommon are also similar and the motes of Ardmayle & Cloncurry, Co. Kildare have affinities. These sepulchral mounds were used by the Normans as motes.

At Ardmayle not far from Golden lies a Graveyard which has gold in abundance. Near it is situated an old Castle. It is said that old kings hid their money there when they were going out to war. Many people have tried to get the Treasure but nobody has yet been successful. One incident which happened there was when a crowd of men went there to look for gold. They brought with them all the necessary tools. When they reached there they began to dig immediately and they had not gone far in it when they reached a large float stone. They left their tools aside for a time and began to think what would they do next. In the end they got courage and began to raise the stone. When they had it raised to their surprise they saw a long stairs about fifteen feet long going downwards. They began to think for a while who would go first. In the end the biggest man went first and the rest followed. They continued

A True Fairy Tale
A small farmer who lived near the Moat of Ardmayle a few miles from the historic Rock of Cashel had a cow that was milked every evening by somebody who lived in the Moat. He was told to watch his cow at the particular time, and when the woman would come to milk her to catch her by the tail, and keep hold of it no matter where the cow would go. This he did, and when the woman came to milk her, the cow ran over ditches and stone walls, some of them seven feet high, and arrived mysteriously inside the moat. He held his hold all the time and then the woman milked her inside in an archway. The cow started back again. The same course and with the same magic to the spot where she started from. he held fast all the time to her tail and she

The old parish chapel once stood where the National School now is built. It was thatched building and it was at that old chapel my grandfather first went to mass. The new chapel was build in the year 1829. I remember seeing a holy water font at the back of the school when a little boy. My grandfather drew stones and timber for the erection of the new church, the site of which was given free by the landlord, a protestant gentleman named Capt. Olway. The Mauds of Dundrum refused to give a site. The first P.P. of the new church as Rev. Fr. Moloney. A woollen mill too was built where the creamery now stands. It was erected by a local Protestant gentleman named Scott. It is stated that a holy water font was taken from an old Abbey at Ardmayle and brought to the Mill at Rossmore for the purpose of coverting it into a dyeing pot. But try as they may they could never get the colour they wanted from it. Later a Cork family took charge of this factory which closed down in 1891.