The Narnahown Road
This road stretches from Keane's quay-wall to Mauice Pyne's house. it goes through the Corrin Hills and it is about one hundred years old. It was there before the Famine time.
The Moin an Mionntáin Road goes from Patrick Carey's house, Doon. It is a very hilly road because it runs through the Doon Mountains and it joins the Ballyporeen Road at the Bella Cross. It was made during the Famine time.
The Doon Road stretches from Jer Mulvey's shop Barnahown to Patrick Carey's, Doon.
Barrets Bohereen
This bohereen runs from the Doon Road to the Ballyporeen Road. Why it is called Barrets Bohereen is this - because Mr. Barret lived in a house there long ago. The ruins of the house are still to be seen.
The Melleray Path stretches from Hennessy's, Doon to Clogheen Road. It goes

branch of the Barnahown road. It starts where we call Finn's Gullot. The gullot is in the townland of Barnahown. Then the road goes east through Doon. It then turns north east and it goes along through Foildearg. It meets the Clogheen road near Shandrahan Cross.
There is an old Mass path from Doon to Ballyporeen. It starts at Martins in Doon. it goes north through the Doon mountains and down through Glenacuna and it meets the Ballyporeen road at Pynes.

This field is in our land at Doon, Araglen, Kilworth, Co. Cork.

not get at its inhabitants and that is how it got its name. There are thirty one families in this district and there are about a hundred and fifty four people in Doon. Martins is the name most common.
In Doon almost all of the houses are thatched. There are many old people living in Doon such as Robert Martin, Doon, Araglen, Kilworth, Co. Cork who is 87 years old. Mrs. Kenneally who is 85 years. They have no Irish, but English.
The following is a local song recalling the escapade of a James McGrath who lived in Barnahown,
"James McGrath it is my name
And I live by the Araglen side
I often take a drop of drink
And a little two much at times.
Good news I heard one morning
And my heart was overjoyed
I took a notion in my head
To ramble to Fermoy.
I saw John Rice going up to Doctor Roche
And I thought it was

Lime Burning
As late as fifty years ago every farmer in Doon had a lime kiln of his own. They used to quarry lime stones at the Doon quarry which is situated near the Araglen River. Some of the quarry belongs to Michael Brunnock and the rest of it belongs to Robert Martin.
They did not pay any money for the stone as their landlord used to give the stone free to all his tenants. No outsider was allowed to take any stone out of this quarry but the tenants. They used

Doon was a part of his parish at that time.
He used also say Mass in a deep glen in the Doon mountains. He used hide there from the soldiers but Shannrahan graveyard was his chief hiding place in a vault under the ground 30 feet in height, where he was treated by a man named Griffith. The strange thing is that Griffith was a Protestant.
His history is too well known to tell any more about him. he was captured at last by the soldiers. Some one related to him named Mary Denehy told where he was. A short time afterward he was caught and taken to Clonmel jail where he was beheaded.

they called it the Cuailín.

into a big timber tub. It gets about three washings and then it is salted and fit for use. Buttermilk is used for baking and as a drink.
Obtained from:- Michael Brunnock (49 years), Doon, Araglen, Kiliworth, Co. Cork
Written by:- James Brunnock, Doon, Araglen, Kiliworth, Co. Cork

About ninety years ago there were a few schools around here. There was one in Túr na Gaoithe near Ballyduff. Mrs Murphy was the teacher. She came from around Tallow in County Waterford. She is dead years now. The people built a small hut for the teacher to teach the children. She used to live in that hut. She taught the children English language because the English Government would not let them speak Irish. They would not pay the teacher either. The pupils had to pay her themselves. Mrs Murphy used to charge the pupils five pence each a week. The pupils used to write with geese quils on paper. Sometimes they used to write with small stones on big flat slates. Mrs Brackett of Túr na Gaoithe went to that school and my great grandmother's grandmother.
About forty years ago there was a school in Doon. Mrs Carey of Doon taught the pupils in that school. She taught them some Irish and some English.

leading from Mulveys to ballyporeen. About a half mile up the Barnahown road there is another road joined to it. this is called the Doon road. This road is leading to Mount Melleray through the townland of Doon. About four miles the road is leading before it comes out on the Clogheen road.
About a mile west on the Araglen road there is another road branching north to Ballyporeen. It is called the middle Barnahown road. The road was made about the year 1850. It was made by the local men of the place.
The road that passes Ballyheaffy school is called the Araglen road. A branch of it goes south west through Ballinalukena and Ducarrig and Gortnapeaka and meets the Mocollop road near Ballyduff. There is another branch of the Araglen road going southwards across the hill from Ballyheaffy to Ballyduff.

is still living used to lift heavy weights and large tables with his teeth for bets.
Thomas Mór Brunnock or Big Tom who lived in Doon, Araglen, Kilworth, Co. Cork often brought sacks of wheat down to Clogheen. He had to carry it a bad road through the mountains to Flemingstown Hills to ge tit crushed into flour and bring the flour home on his back. He died about forty years ago and he was living in our house and my father remembered him well. He was also a great stone thrower and he used to challenge men from the County Limerick,
The two Quirkes of Doon, Thomas and James, were noted hunters. Thomas is alive but James died a few years ago. They always kept a greyhound. On one occasion they were poaching for hares and the hound gave up after a long run. The Quirkes themselves took up the chase and caught the hare.
Thomas Scanlon who lived in Ballyheaffy Upper was once a great mower. He used to go to County Limerick harvesting and he used to cut about three acres of hay and four acres of oats in two days. The people got jealous and told him that they would get a man as good as him in County

The Tinker's Field
This field is in our land in Doon, Araglen, Kilworth, Co. Cork. The quarry field takes its name from the limestone quarry which is in a part of it. It was thought that there was enchanted money hidden there under a large flat stone. If the stone would be removed at twelve o'clock in the night gold would be found underneath it. Some people who tried to unearth it were frightened away by human voices in the field next to it. That field is called The Tinker's Field as old people say the voices would remind you of the tinkers fighting.

My home is in the townland of Doon and the parish of Ballyporeen and its Barony is Iffa Offa. It is surrounded by deep glens and was therefore a fortress where the enemy could

The parents used to pay for their children. They used to give her sixpence a week. The pupils used to write with chalk on slates. Elen O'Mahoney of Doon went to that school and she died last year at the age of eighty.

it to the Araglen Furnace where they used make pots and kettles. They also found some sort of clay in the field which was brought to the Furnace and converted into all kinds of earthen ware:- Pans which were used for the setting and skimming of milk as people had no separators or creameries.

It stretches from Con Leddy's to Michael Cahill's. This road was there sixty years ago.

Over two hundred years ago the Furnace of Araglen was known for its pottery throughout the British Isles. It was founded by the Earl of Cork who was a prominent member of the Roche family of Fermoy. The material called Iron Clay was got in Mr. Casey's land of Gortnaskehy and in Mr. Michael Brunnock's, Doon, Araglen. A material known locally as red mine of which a large quantity is still in the Condon's land, Knockbawn, Araglen was imported from England to mix through the local Iron clay. The sand used at the present day in moulding was not known at that time. Wood was used for making the moulds which was burned out by each article moulded causing heavy expense which was the chief cause of the project being a

The Alley Field
This field is in our land at Doon

obtained from MC Brunnock, (49 years)
Doon
Araglen
Kilworth
Co. Cork
Written by: James Brunnock,
Doon
Araglen
Kilworth
Co. Cork

would have that colour would go with the angel. Then the devil would come and call a colour and the girl that would have that colour would go with the devil and so firth until all the girls are called out. The the angels would have to beat the devils.