The greatest Irish chief of this district was McEniry who lived in the castle west of Castletown Conyers - formally Castletown McEniry. He owned all the land around Castletown but was dispossessed by Cromwell. His castle was shelled from a little hill south west of Castletown. This estate

One of Castletown's best games was played in Resoure. It was held on a very fine day. The two teams were Castletown and Ard [?] All players were very good but the three outstanding on Castletown were Willie Farrelly, Willie Mulvaney, Joe Curren, Willie Farrelly was centre field and were it not for him the game would be lost. Mulvanys kicking and catching is talked of in the Parish yet. Curren who was captain also played a great game. The strange thing about it was that there was six Farrells and six Cassidys playing on the Castletown team. In this game, as was the rule then there were seventeen on each side. It was ended that Castletown won by one point

The Mary Jane was a ketch trading between Cork and Castletown. She was owned by old Mr Daniel Moriarty the Square, Castletown Bere and she was commanded by Jack Harrington, Bere Island, commonly known as Jack the Growler. She used also carry pigs to Bantry on pig fair days at Castletown.On the twenty sixth day of November eighteen eighty seven she left Castletown with a cargo of pigs for Bantry, during the voyage down it started to blow from the north west, a proper hurricane. She ran aground on Gurranes Point just outside Bantry. She was badly damaged near her keel and started to leak, the crew got the pigs ashore safely. The Mary Jane was towed up to Castletown by a steamer and berthed behind Dan Harrington's house. She was left there and all the young fellas of the town had good practise as sailors climbing up her riggings.She was left there to rot and eventually the late Dan Harrington trunked over her remains and there is a flour and meal store over her remains now.

The Widows Field belongs to Mrs. McGough and is situated at Castletown Kilbarry. An old woman lived on the land. The Big Meadow belongs to Mrs McGough and is situated at Castletown Kilbarry. It was a meadow once. Duffys field belongs to Mr. Sullivan and is situated in Castletown Kilbarry. A man named Duffy lived on the land. The Big Moat belongs to Mrs McGough and is situated in Castletown Kilbarry. There is a big mound in it. The Chap Field belongs to Mr. Sullivan and is situated in Kilbarry. It is near the Chap. The Big Field belongs to Mr. Brien and is situated in Kilbarry. It is a big field. Frank McHugh owns the lane. A man named Phil lived in a house on the land and that is the reason it is called Phils field.

I heard a priest named Rev Hugh Cullen preaching in Castletown chapel some years ago. He said that the reason it got the name Castletown-Kilpatrick was that when St Patrick was travelling through Ireland he probably said Mass in this church and that that was why it was given the name Castletown Kilpatrick. There is a holy well at Mr. Harlins of Castletown in Mr. McKeever's land. It is called St. Patrick's well and the track of where he was kneeling is there yet and the track of the crozier where he left it down. His feastday is held on the 17th March and the reason it is held on the 17th is that some time ago there was a dispute in Ireland about it. One half of the people said it was on the ninth and the other half said that it was on the eight, so they had a faction fight

About thirty five years ago there was a football match in Rathkenny between Castletown and the Navan Pearse Mahonys team. Castletown won by a goal and a point. The scores were two goals and two points. There were twenty one men on each side and the goals were one hundred and fifty yards apart. The Navan team had blue and white jerseys and Castletown had green and gold. Weight trowing and a hop step and a lep. Brian Reilly was a great weight trower and he won two sets of medals one in Rathkenny and the other in Navan. There was a man in Castletown about forty years ago called the runner Reilly. He won three two mile races one at a sports in Newtown

Hurling was not in this district long ago but there was football. About fifty years ago there was a great football match in Ryans field of Castletown. There were two teams playing Rathkenny and Castletown. It lasted for one hour. The players were dressed in their plain clothes. Castletown scored four goals and Rathkenny three goals. There were about two hundred watching the game.

About thirty two year ago there was a great team of footballers in Castletown. One of the best games played by Castletown was in a field of Naultys. The teams were Castletown and Ardee. All the players were very good but the best players were William Mulvaney and Joe Curran. William Farrelly was

William Donegan lives in Castletown aged about 48 years

Our school is standing 97 years and the first teacher that taught in it was a Mr. Banann from Knocknacurragh Castletown G., Before Mr. Banann taught in this school he taught a hedge school on his own land in Knocknacurragh. He went to a hedge school on the Dublin road in Kilbeggen to a teacher of the name of Gilbert Carey a brother to the present Joseph Carey Castletown G., Mr. Banann was known to be a great judge of boys. One day he was coming from Kilbeggan after selling oats and he caught a man on foot. He told him to get up on the car and he would carry him as far as Castletown. They started talking and did not feel until they were near Castletown. The man told him that he was a poor scholar and he was looking for a Mr Banann a teacher. Mr Banann told him he was the man he was looking for but that he could go back to where he came from because he could not teach him anything. He knew by the talk of the Poor Scholar that he knew more than he knew himself.

is about half a mile from the boundry on the south. There is a river dividing Castletown from Adamstown called Fagans river. Castletown school is mentioned in the poem, The old school by the Stream and the coquering Castletown Geo men. There is no old saying connected with the district.

songs. Some of them were "Carroll's Goose", Castletown Fair" and "The steamroller in Hanstown".
Matthew Weir, Castletown-G., Co. Westmeath was another poet. He lived in the village of Castletown-G., Co. Westmeath but he is dead now. He could read and write and he composed the songs at night-time. He composed the "Old School by the Stream", "The Grand old man of Castletown-G.," and and the "Castletown -G.,men". All those songs were composed in English. James Emmet, Benalbat, Ballinagore, Co. Westmeath was another very good poet. He was a small farmer and at night time a lot of neighbours went to his home to get him to compose songs. The name of one was "The Bonny Bunch of Roses". Mr. Leavy was a poet who lived on our district long ago. He lived in Adamstown in the parish of Castletown-G., Co. Westmeath. He was born in Dublin. His father was a poet also, and after his father died he got the power to make poetry. One of the songs he composed was "The girl from Donegal". Another of them was "The Cottage by the Sea". Another is "When the river Shannon flows". He composed these songs to let the people know that he was a poet. He wrote English and Irish poetry and songs. He wrote these songs in his own house and before his father died he taught him some of them. He could

7) Inhale Friars Balsam for a cold in head or chest (Mr. Anderson, Castletown)

There is an underground Tunnel from Castletown Castle to Aghaboe.

About thirty years ago there was a family living At Killowen in Castletown, Arklow. One of the family died. He had expressed a wish to be buried in Castletown. A short time after the burial the funeral was seen going up and down by the gate of the graveyard at Castletown. Everyone was very frightened and would not go near the place at night. Even at present ghosts are supposed to be seen between Killowen crossroads and the gate of the house where the man used to live.

Farewell unto sweet Castletown Drimbardagh hill so blue.

Castletown
The old castle from which Castletown gets its name is situated on the bank of the River Nore. It is by the side of the main road from Dublin to Cork and Limerick. It is one of the most historic places in this county of ours. In olden times it was (that) said that there was an underground passage which led from the Castle to Roe's Castle of Rushall, and another to Aughabo. The late Lord Castletown's ancestors were the residents of the castle.
It is said that the Fitzpatrick's burned the castle when the English army was coming.
When Cromwell's soldiers were robbing the monasteries the Brothers used to hide in the tunnel which connected Aughabo and Castletown. They had a horse which used to take the mail to Clonenagh. One day the soldiers caught the horse and robbed the mail.
Then the soldiers asked a woman where the Brothers used to be, and they said they would give her a lot of money. It is said she got a gallon of buttermilk and made a hole in the bottom of the gallon and she streaked it from Castletown to Aughabo. The soldiers knew what she meant. Half of them entered the tunnel from Castletown and the other half from Aughabo side they captured and killed all the Brothers

In the Penal Times, a band of Protestants from Castletown threw down a Catholic church that was in a graveyard in the village and built a Protestant Church out of the stones besides it. The Protestant Church is standing still and some of the ruins of the Catholic one are there still.
There was a Mass Rock, and Mass Hollow called Lugadoon in Lugadoon now called Adamstown. There was a small church and churchyard called Killeen in Jamestown where mass was said in the Penal Times. Mass was said in a Special house in Keel Castletown G., called Moorheads and the ruins of the house are still called Moorheads It is on the lands of Joseph Martin Castletown G.,
When mass was going to be said out in the open on a wet day, a horses cart was heeled up and the shafts pointing upwards and a small table placed under it on which the articles the priest used during the saying of the Mass were placed. Two families of priest-hunters by the names of Davises and Jezips lived in the village of Castletown. A priest by the name of Father Burns lived in a small cottage in Castletown under the disguise of an ordinary workman. The Davises Jezips got to know that he was a priest and one day the two families raided the cottage but the priest was not at home. The Davises and Jezips got the valuable vessels and vestments that the priest had hidden in the cottage.
Another priest-hunter that lived around here

The local roads in my district are 1. The bog road 2 The main road and 3 The Castletown road.
1 The bog road leads from Loughawn crossroads to Cloughjordan 2 The main road leads from Dublin to Limerick. 3 and the Castletown road leads from Loughawn crossroads up to Lisduff, to Templemore and to Castletown graveyard and the back road which leads from Castletown cross to Moneygall.
The bog road and the Castletown road are old roads. They are still used. There are no local accounts as to when they were made. There is a lane called "Loyer Lane" in my district which leads to the "Rock of Loyer". There are no mountain passes.
When there were no bridges, rivers were crossed by means of fords at shallow places.
There is a mass path near