Lady's well
Lady's well is situated about a mile to the south of Kilfinnane in a field called Lady's well field. The people of this district say that the well removed when a woman washed her baby in it. The remains of the old well are still to be seen. People visit it on Sunday and it is sometimes called Sunday's well. They also visit it on the fifteenth of August.

Many people have been cured there, sore eyes especially. One Sunday a woman by the name of Mrs. Roche visited it. she had very sore eyes but after praying and doing nine rounds she was cured. Any person who got cured always left a cup after them in honour of Our Lady or tied a ribbon to a tree. The well is surrounded by old trees.
The Chincough WellThe Chincough Well is situated in one of Micheal Hayes's fields in Ballintubber about a mile from Kilfinnane. The well is surrounded by nine stones and anyone who goes there must kneel at each stone. Children who had chincough were cured there

Our only patron Saint connected with this district is St Ita. She was born in Co. Waterford, and was the daughter of a very wealthy gentleman. When she was twenty one years he tried to force her to marry a noble man but she refused. He then treated her very cruelly and she fled from home.She passed by Mitchelstown, Kilfinnane, Ballygran and into Feenagh. She was accompanied by her sister Feenah but at that time there were no houses there then only one cabin in the side of the road. They got some lttle reception there and that is why it is now called Feenagh.She then went through Kilmeedy where there is a well still called after

How a former Parish Priest of Kilfinane became the Owner of Two Fields.
A long time ago there was a man working at a farmhouse in Castle Oliver and he swore, dead or alive that he would mind the farm. Sometime after his death he used to haunt the house and especially the servants rooms. The servants told the ladies of the house what was happening in their rooms every night but she only mocked them and said it was only an imagination of theirs.
A few days after one of the servants went to confession in Ardpatrick so she told the her story. The priest was angry at the ladies remark, and visited the Castle he banished the spirit into the ladies room. That night the spirit appeared to the ladies and they were frightened. Next day they sent for a couple of ministers as they were Protestants, to banish the spirit but their praying was of no avail, the ghost appeared again that night. At last they sent for Fr Halpin, parish priest of Kilfinnane and Ardpatrick. The two parishes were joined together at that time. They asked him to banish the spirit, he sis so and laid it in a lake on top of Blackrock Mountain. Of course they were delighted, and as a reward, they gave the priest a horse and two fields. The two fields are beside my house and they are handed down to every parish who resides

There is very little wheat grown in this district. Long ago there was a lot of wheat grown here. About fifty years ago the people used to carry the wheat to Kilfinnane. There was flour made of the wheat there, but that was all done away with. There was very little wheat grown in this district until recent years. There was only as much grown as would do for thatch - the grain was given to hens. The amount of wheat has increased for the past few years. Now the grain is sold to the millers in Caher or in Limerick. It is cut with a mowing machine & sometimes they attach on a sheaver on to it to make sheaves. Some people make sheaves with their hands. Then the sheaves are bound. The sheaves are put into stooks for about a week to dry. Then they are put into a stack & it is threshed with a threshing machine.

210Ancient Granard Once a seat of GovernmentAfter the time of St. Patrick the Kingdom of Annaly was divided into two sections, each ruled by an O'Farrell. Ancient Granard was the chief town in the northern division and was also the seat of Government. The House of Parliament or, as it was then called, "the Convention Hall", stood where Granardkille Chapel now is, and O'Farrell, the ruler had his castle on the Moat of Granard.
The Moat is of very ancient structure, indeed it may be concluded as certain that its erection goes a long way before the Danish era. It bears some resemblance to the great Moat of Kilfinnane in Co. Limerick, but it is much smaller. It was very strongly fortified except on the southern side, which seems to have been guarded solely by the deep trench on the summit, out of which the defender fired arms and hurled stone missles at the approaching enemy. After the Norman invasion (1172 - 1266) it was occupied by Sir Richard Tuite, Baron of Moyashell, who entertained King John of England within its walls on August 12, 1210, just then that monarch was concluding his sixty days' visit to Ireland. In King John's Itinerence, complained by Thomas Duffus Hardy, F.S.A., reference is made to the Royal visit. A short time after this Sir Richard was killed in Athlone while holding a court there, and the castellanship passed over to his son, who,