About seventy or eighty years ago the Castleisland races used to be held at Ballyplymoth, where, regularly every year the people of East Kerry never failed to meet. It used to be a great time for the people of the parishes of Castleisland, Scartaglin, Clogher, Knocknagoshel, and Brosna, for many from Abbeyfeale, and of course hundreds came from Tralee, Killarney, Listowel. They had then three days of racing with stakes as high as twenty pounds. All the business people of Castleisland and even the publichouse owners shut up their shops, and made a bee-line