There are three different graveyards in this locality. The Kilwatermoy graveyard is in the parish of Kilwatermoy. The Kilcockin graveyard is in the parish of Knockanore and the Templemichael graveyard is in the parish of Glendine near Youghal.
Kilwatermoy cemetery is a circular one and is surrounded by a wall. There are a few trees planted here and there in it. Somes of those mark the graves. Other have tomb stones with their names inscribed so that each one will know their own burial ground. There is an old ruin in the centre of this graveyard where non-catholics were buried. The Parkers of Ballyhamlet and some of their relations were buried in this ruin.
The Templemichael graveyard is a square one. There is a wall surrounding it and

Situated in the townland of Kilwatermoy is a holy well which is dedicated to the Holy Cross. Mass is usually celebrated in Kilwatermoy Church after which many people pay their rounds to this holy well on the 14th September, the pattern day.By going to the well and kneeling

Dom bhií file i gCnoc an Fheoirthiar uair agus do dhein sé cúpla bheirsaí mar gheall ar Cnoc an Fheoir, Gleann Doimhin agus Cill Uachtair Muighe.
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Kilwatermoy, Kilwatermoy, your courage I don't like
If you want to see old Ireland free

There are not many old roads or mass paths in this district. From the townland of Dunmoon to the Kilwatermoy Church there is a path which was formerly a good road. The name locally given to this path is the "Grassy Hill". This road was disused on account of large stones which are at the end of it.
From the road known locally as the "Green Road" the is a passage going through the townland of Moorehill. This, it is stated was made as relief work during the famine time. It is said that threepence per hour was paid for doing it, along with getting the midday meal of soup and meat.
There is another old road connecting Headboro with Dunmoon. This is called the "Priests road". This with the others is a very bad road. About forty years ago when the road was first torn up, many priests to get in in repair as it is the shortest way from Kockanore to Kilwatermoy but all failed. This is how it earned it's name.

While St. Patrick was at Cashel converting the Irish, he had a cow and a calf. The calf was stolen. The cow was furious when she missed the calf. She was so angry that she put her horns into the ground and following the scent of the calf she tore up a channel all the way from Cashel to Kilwatermoy, which is a few miles from Tallow. This channel can still be seen. It is called " Rian Bó Phádruig ".

Long ago there lived in Bearna na Madra near Kilwatermoy a woman by the name of Doran who had an amount of money. Before she died she buried all the money she had beside a blackthorn tree. Her death occurred three days after she had buried the money. There is a light seen where the money is buried. Attempts were made by the people of the neighbouring place to cut the tree but they failed. Among these was one brave man named John Supple who going by

Long ago there was a pot of gold hidden in Kilwatermoy. One day Mr. Cody and another man went to the place where it was supposed to be hidden in the wood. When they

The townland I live in is Dunmmon in the parish of Kilwatermoy. There are sixteen families and the population is about 58. The majority of those are young people with the exception of four or five over 70 years. The most common name is Greene.
There is a river running through Dunmoon dividing North Dunmoon from South and flowing along by the Kilwatermoy Church.There is a wood close by which covers about nineteen acres. A great portion of this townland is under mountain and bog. The remainder is best fitted for growing corn and potatoes.
In ancient times there were more houses and population than at the present day and the land was better cultivated. Owing to the famine families left their homes and went to foreign lands, principally U.S.A.
The names of the people over seventy are
Mrs. Alice McGrath.
Mrs. Mary Greene.
Mrs. Kate Morrisson
Mrs. Eliza Greene.
The older people are able to speak Irish and tell stories of ancient events which took place in the district.

church. After St. Finbar in the sixth century, had spent some years in the wild solitude of Loch Ina, now Gougane Barra, St. Barra's, Finbar's rock-cleft, at the source of the Lee. He changed his residence and founded a monastery on the edge of a marsh near the mouth of the same river round which a great city grew up. Kilbarry in Waterford therefore means the church of Barra or Finbar.Kilbride
There are thirty five townlands and parishes scattered through the four Provinces, called Kilbarry, in Irish Cill-Bhrighde, Bride's Church, most of which are dedicated to St. Brigid of Kildare.Kilwatermoy
The word 'upper' in Irish - uachtar - is frequently changed into 'water' as in Kilwatermoy in Waterford which means The Church of the Upper Plain.Knockeen
Cnoc signifies a hill, its most common Anglicised form being 'knock' in which the 'K' is usually silent. Knockeen in Waterford means The Little Hill.Lismore
The words 'lios' and 'mór' were applied to

Kilwatermoy, Kilwatermoy
Your courage I don't like
If you want to set old Ireland free
Set that handle from the pike.My brave Glendine, you did combine
And swore no rent you would pay
Until that man would join the Plan
And give the land away.'Tis Knockanore I do adore
The bravest of the three
You are perfect, you stand direct
Thanks to your R.C.C.

About the year 1649 in the townland of Sapperton and in the parish of Kilwatermoy, Co. Waterford a treasure was hidden by a man named Burt of English descent who then occupied Sapperton House. It was the time of Cromwell's invasion and there was some disunion between Burt and his officers who were stationed around the place at that time. The officers then went to a hill overlooking the house and fired a cannon-ball which knocked the gable-end of the house and landed in a bog at the opposite side of the river Bride. It was taken back to Sapperton where it was to be seen until quite recently.
Burt lived alone in the house with black servant. He had a lot of gold which he kept in the house and getting afraid, they gathered it all up and put it in a firkin. Going out he told his servant he would put it in a safe place. When he returned, the servant said to him "You weren't long away" and he replied "I was not long away but I placed it where a plough or harrow will never touch it". He then ordered his servant to put out his yacht; he did so and they both sailed off towards Youghal and never returned. It is supposed that he buried it

they hoped to reach Youghal the day before the wedding. When they didn't arrive inquiries were made in every possible way but no trace of her has ever been found and five lives were lost.
House Burnings
On the 30th April 1919 a dwelling-house in Snugborough in the parish of Kilwatermoy, Tallow, Co. Waterford, which was then occupied by a lady named Mrs. Lynch, took fire. It was a thatched house and a spark from the chimney landed on the roof. A neighbouring farmer had borrowed her ladder and when they came back with it, it was too late to save it. Some of the furniture was saved but the house was burned to the ground.

to Camphire Bridge, Co. Waterford.
The cross roads at Camphire Bridge lead to Youghal, Cork, Tallow and Kilwatermoy. Bóthar Íonta is a very old road and is still in use.
Before bridges were built the people used to cross rivers by means of a ford at shallow places. At-na-gCapaill is a ford on th Bride about four miles from its mouth. There is a ruin on an old church about a quarter of a mile from my home in Camphire called the Teampailín. There is also another monument in Moorehill road, Tallow in memory of Thomas Mackey of Moorehill, who was shot during the troubled times.

in Ballyhamlet lios, in the parish of Kilwatermoy. One day they were hunting and coming to a certain spot they saw a large white stone in the distance.
They made several attempts to uproot it and finally succeeded, with the help of an iron bar. Underneath they found some pots of gold supposed to be buried since the Danish invasion. This they brought home and, it is believed that later on they disposed of it for a large sum of money.
Around this spot a fence was built and briars, ferns and other plants grow there. It is never tilled and is supposed to be inhabited by fairies. This lios is about a quarter of a mile away from my home.

were in the field and the mare dropped dead with the fright and the foal kept running around the dead mare till the next morning.Epidemic. Many years ago there was a fever epidemic in Tallow. When any person got the epidemic he had to go up to the old barracks which was a hospital. The hospital got full. The sick people had to go into tents which were in the barrack field.Lightning. In the year of 1905 there was a severe lightning storm in Kilwatermoy. The storm was so great that it broke down a bridge near the church there. The storm was regarded as one of the biggest yet.

Once upon a time there were two boys living in the town-land of Kilwatermoy. There was a marble game being played in the parish at which they attended. They played all day and at nightfall they had a bag of marbles won.
On their way home they decided to go into the grave-yard where all was quiet and share the marbles. There was a high wall surround-ing the grave yard and when they were climbing the wall two marbles fell from them.
The boy who shared them kept repeating "one for you and one for me". Two men were passing by who heard the voice saying "one for you and one for me". They taught to themselves that (that) 'twas God and the Devil sharing souls in the grave-yard.
They listened for a while and in the end the voice stopped. Then it said agin again "come out now 'till we get the two outside". The two men ran home as fast as they could thinking it was themselves who were meant.
12th November '37

called because priests used to say Mass there long ago. In the townland of Camphire in the parish of Lismore.
Páirc-dóighthe
'The Burnt Field.
It is so called because a crop which was grown there was burnt. It is still named Páirc Dóighthe
The Gander's Head Tree
It is so called because a ghost appeared there in the form of a gander.
The Reiligín
A Graveyard. It is so-named because in the Penal times people were buried there. In the townland of Okyle in the parish of Cappoquin.The Furze Hill
It is so called because it is a hill of furze.
Boithrín-Fork
It is so called because it represents a fork. In 1916 Thomas Mackey was shot there by British Forces for suspicious behaviour. There is a monument erected at that boithrín in memory of him. In the townland of Morehill in the parish of Tallow.
Camphire Hills are historical as it is said St. Patrick's cow came after her calf through these hills going to Kilwatermoy as her calf was stolen by a man from that place.