Cashel is still to be seen in Dun Cashel.

Football in olden times was much rougher than it is at the present time. The Cashel team were called the holy Terrors and the Rathcline team were called John Martins. About 40 years ago, one of the best finals was played between Cashel and Rathcline and Rathcline won it. Some of the men on the Cashel team 40 years ago was James Mulvihill, Mike Mulvihill, Michael Mahedy, Patrick Casey, Matthew Dolan and Michael Dowd. Mike Mulvihill was the captain of the Cashel team. The referee was John Farrell. The rules were not as strict as they are now and the referees were not as strict. The colours of Cashel team was blue jerseys and white caps. Nearly every game that Cashel and Rathcline won them. The ball that was used was the same as nowadays. A player would only be allowed to run three yards with the ball before he kicked it, and no player would be allowed to pass. There used to be 21 men on each team. When the Cashel team would be playing another parish, the people used to go on carts to the match.

Matt Power tells another tale of his adventures. At that time there were bands of robbers going around and especially around Christmastime. It was the custom of Power and his companions to draw their coal to Cashel on Christmas Eve and sell it to the town people early in the morning. Power had a brother in law known as Johnnie St. John who was another carman and had constant employment delivering coal to the Brewery in Rathdowney. He was a great comic and Power pressed on him to come to Cashel that day saying they would have a holiday. They finally settled to go there. They reached Cashel that Christmas Eve morning at day-break and sold their loads early. Then they put up their horses and fed them and they said that they would be home early. The time passed on as they listened to the sayings of St. John. The night fell before they left Cashel and they came home the shortest but most dangerous road. From Cashel to Ballinure was known for these robbers and that was the road they came. They knew no danger and as usual Burke was leading. He was a powerful strong man and feared no foe. At a lonely place not far from Cashel they were attacked. The attackers were strong and large in number. The first they attacked was Burke who was beating them fearlessly when his comrades came up. They quickly went to his assistance and a great fight took place. Burke had received some head wounds from one of his assailants and when the fight was over they were all covered with blood but they defeated the robbers. The witty St. John knew Burke was a great fighter and ran to him with a shovel. They were all blood and battered but they won the battle and saved their goods and arrived home at four o'clock on Christmas

Long ago there was a man digging for gold in a fort in our land. The fort is situated on the main road from Cashel to Thurles and about two and a half miles from Cashel. Every evening when the man used by finished digging he used to go into Cashel for his nights lodgings. One evening when he was walkign into Cashel a man by the name of Mr. Price met him on the road and he gave him a lift. Mr Price asked him where he was from. The man told him his story He said that he came from the County Meath and that he dreamt three nights in succession that he'd get gold in some place in Tipperary and he often heard that if you dreamt three nights in succession for gold that you'd get it. "Oh! you poor old fool" said Mr Price, "You'll get no gold here" and he gave him ten shillings to buy something for himself

We have an old legend handed down to us, telling how the "Psalter of Cashel" was stolen from The Rock by a professor who was teaching at the Bangor school and how it was brought back by another Cashel man. The following are the facts as handed down to us.In the ancient school of Bangor - one of Erin's most famous schools - there taught a noted scholar - a native of Cashel - who said he'd never rest until he took from The Rock of Cashel - by fair means or foul - the great book, the work of Cormac Mac Cuilennáin, King & Bishop of Munster - and keep it at Bangor.To accomplish this he disguised himself in lady's apparel & walked from the college many long miles & through bad roads till he arrived at Cashel

Cashel was the principal place for the Kings of Munster long ago. The Rock of Cashel is a limestone rock. There are many ruins on the rock of Cashel

The Rock of Cashel is situated about seven miles east wards from the school. This is how the rock of Cashel came to Cashel.One day St Patrick met the devil and the St said that the piece of ground that they were standing on would be some time covered with buildings. Then an angel appeared to them and the devil followed it. When he was passing the Sliabh Bloom Mts. the devil took a bit out of the Mts and dropped it in Cashel where the Rock is now situated. Afterwards there were houses built on it, the round tower, Saint Patrick's cross, Cormac's Chapel, the Cathedral and the Royal residence. The rock of Cashel is about 300 feet high.

This is how the famous Rock of Cashel was made. The devil met Saint Patrick on the Slieve Bloom mountains one day. Saint Patrick said to the devil that the piece of land on which they were standing would one day be the site of many buildings. And Patricks words came true. One day the devil was following an Angel along that way and to make his journey short he bit the patch of ground that St Patrick had told him about. He took the piece of rock as far as Cashel and dropped it in the place where the famous Rock of Cashel now stands. The Rock of Cashel is now the site of many ancient ruins, such as Cormacs Chapel, a Cathedral an ancient cross called Saint Patricks cross, a round (town) tower, and an ancient stone on which it is said the people used to offer sacrifices long ago.

The Rock of Cashel is about 300 feet high. It is about 10 miles east of Ballyhurst N.S. One day when St. Patrick met the devil at Cashel an Angel appeared to them. The Angel passed the Sliabh Bloom mountains and brought it to Cashel and dropped it there. There are many old buildings on the rock, the round tower, the royal

527 and he was buried in the Diocese of Cashel.

When King Henry II was plundering Ireland, he came up to Waterford Harbour and marched to Cashel and from Cashel to Dublin. When he was on his march from Cashel to Dublin he had to go through Slieve Margy ridge over Paulstown. As you know at that time the ridge was cold and rugged. As he was passing through Kellymount he fell down in a hole where the cave is now situated. He had to be brought to a house and kept therer for a month.

the boundary of Ossary and Cashel at the present day.

inclination inwards as it ascends. The gateway is wider below than above, and its lintel is formed by a very large flat slab of stone, which supports the wall above it. The stone of which the whole cashel is built is the common grey schist of the district, interspersed with a few blocks of quartz, gneiss and granite.
Outside the cashel, three concentric rings of circumvallation, or earthen enclosures, can be faintly traced, surrounding it at unequal distances. Between the first and second, east of the cashel, are the barely discernable remains of a tumulus; and between the second and third, due south of the cashel, an ancient well. The circular apex of the hill contained within the outermost enclosure, is 5 1/2 acres; within the second, 4; and within the third, about 1; and within the cashel itself about, 1/4 of an acre. The visitor will observe that many of the stones, outside and inside, are marked with tar: these were the uppermost found in their original positions when the cashel was restored.
The architecture ("a work of art without art") is of that rude style of uncemented stone-work, called Cyclopean for want of a better name. It exhibits a specimen of the first attempts of savage man to construct an edifice of

Mar '38 Fairy Forts
There are fairy forts in the school district. I know of three. one of them is called the cashel, another is called the fort and the third is called the lisheen.
The fort is in Jimmy Duffy's land in Cross. The cashel is in Paddy Giblin's land in Drimacoo, and the lisheen is in Eddie O'Donnell's land of Drimacoo. The fort and the Lisheen are circular in shape The cashel is flat and has about thirty rooms. The second room is now blocked by a fall of earth.
Around the cashel is a fence of stone and a few trees growing over it. Around the lisheen is a fence of trees. There is no fence round the fort. There is an entrance hole in the cashel and in the fort. People have gone into the holes but they have found nothing

The Old Road.
The Old road as it is called runs from the bridge of Grange to Moycarkey. It divides the townlands of Ballinree and Ballytarsna. It is supposed to be the old road that led to Kingly Cashel in olden days. The part from Moycarkey to Grange is still used though not in very good repair.
From Jack Heffernan's house where it ends in Grange it can be traced across the fields by Ballysheehan churchyard, through Gortmakellis, and at Cashins bothereen it branches, one branch out to the Dublin Rd into Cashel and the other goes out into the Thurles-Cashel road at Mahers Thurlesbeg.
Its the oldest road in the district and Lord Inchiquins army travelled by it to take the Rock of Cashel in the year 1650.
The Main Dublin-Cork Road via Cashel passes through Ballytarsna. There is no date for its origin through this

A Cashel is a Dun or a stone fort where ever the stones were plentiful they made a cashel. There was a cashel in the townland of Castlegannon on Mr Walsh's land about a mile to the north of Castlegannon school. It is from this cashel that Castlegannon got its name. There is no trace of the cashel there now because the stones were carted away for building purposes.There is a rath on Mr Kelly's land in the townland of Rosboultra at about two miles to the North-East of our school. There is a ring of earth around it, and there are hawthorn trees growing inside the ring of earth. The owner of the rath would not allow anyone to interfere with it. It is said to be there about the time of the Tuatha Dé Danann. It is in sight of another rath about half-a-mile from it. There is an entrance at the West side of it. The place where the houses were can be seen yet, but there is no trace of the houses now, because they were built of mud and wattles. The people said that there is a crock of gold hid in it.There is an old rath on Mr Walsh's land in the townland of Kilkeasy about two miles to the north-west of our school. There are two

Cashel is the name of the townland where I live. It is in the parish of Doe. There are fifteen houses in the townland. Two of them are thatched. There are less houses in Cashel now than long ago.
Moore is the common name in the townland. There are seven families of that name. There is only one over seventy in Cashel. Peter Gillespie is his name.
There are no ruins in the except Doe Castle. A lot of people went to America long ago. the name of Cashel came into a song "The Raid of Marblehill". The land is good around Cashel. There is a lot of it under wood at Boyles of the hill.
There is a river that flows in the hill called The River of the Hill, and there is a cure in its waters.

My townland - Cashel
2-38 Cashel is in Desertegney. On Cashel hill there are four standing stones. There is a wide space between two of these stones, like a door. These are like the walls of a house but there is no roof on them. Also it is like where someone was buried. It is called the Giants stable, and they are in Mr John O'Donnell's hill.
There is another standing stone further out than them and it is said that there was a man hanged somewhere about this stone. It is crooked and it is called the crooked stone. There are tracks on this odd stone like the hands of a person and you can put all your fingers down on each of these tracks, and it also is in Mr John O'Donnell's hill. People say that the Danes were supposed to be round Cashel hill, and that they hid round these stone, in olden times. There is a very large stone at the foot of Cashel hill, and the people call it a Mass Rock. It is in Mr Philip Mc Laughlin's land.

The fort at Cashel Árd, in my townland is always regarded as a fairy-fort by the old people, and several things were seen in the past around the Cashel, and also many stories has been told about it. My father remembers to hear his uncle tell that he once entered the fort on a summers evening, and saw three women in beautiful blue dresses seated in lovely golden chairs in the centre of the fort.
He also heard a very old man tell how a body of horse- men rode through the fort at mid night on halloween. A fairy man using a hammer was heard by the people of the town land for generations up to Easter, in nineteen sixteen when he stopped and was heard no more. Four other forts can be seen from Cashel Árd fort. They are Lis-Esker, Lis na Gros, Cultobo, and Woods. All the forts around here are circular in shape. The fort in our townland is circled with stone. All the other forts are encircled with earth. The people in the district say that the fort in Cashel Árd was built by giants. There was also an entrance hole in-to the fort, but the people closed it up years ago as some sheep got lost in the

The Gobán worked at the Rock of Cashel for Cormac and there he built a wonderful castle of which all the nobles and gentry of the country were jealous. The Rock was brought to Cashel by the Devil who, in a terrible temper (because an old man, who sold his soul to him for two bags of gold, made off with himself to America without fulfilling his promise) took a bite of the mountain at Templemore and brought it to Cashel. The Rock of Cashel 'twas called from that day.
Well, the castle wasn't finished
the Gobán was engaged by other nobility to work for them and the king grew jealous. He made up his mind to put the great mason to death and he would have succeeded in doing so only for the clever wife he had. He (the Gobán) wanted some tools to carve a serpent on stone but the King wouldn't allow him to go home for them but, being most anxious to get the work completed