late one night and the Saint said to her if this will happen again I will send my dogs after you. Next night she remained out later and when the Saint went out looking for her he could not find her so he sent the dogs after her. They found her near Ahane and there they killed her. The Saint changed the dogs into stones and they are seen yet at Ahane. The Saint found her bones and he washed them in the well and she returned to life again. This the reason that well is called a holy well. Long ago people often made rounds. There is a tree near the well. There is also another tree near Gleann na Muice Dhuíbhe called Tobhair na Bhircíní. It is called so because long ago people washed their butter in the well to harden it. There is another well in a farm belonging to Mr John O Neill.

The Landlord's
Thomas George Steward French was the landlord. He lived in Ahane. The families have been settled there for about eighty years. They were bad landlords. A family lived in this district and they paid rent to the landlord and they had nothing to eat and they died. They were going to evict five families in Ahane but four paid the rent and one was evicted. They built a hut for the evicted people.Sean Kiely. Lislehane Cullen Millstreet
Told by William Murphy. Ahane - - - -
age 65

missed her and went to Ahane Cross road and found the wolves eating her. He said a few words and the wolves were turned into stones. One wolf cub stone is still to be seen in Tracton bogs and the rest near Ahane Cross. This saint got his sister's bones and washed them in the well and she came back to life. Some people say she used to get water from some well to make barley bread. People visit this well at night with a light to get cured of any disease. They drink the water sometimes.

1) The local roads are Ahane, Knockbrack, Annagh, Killinagariff, Barringtons Bridge, Clyduff, bog road.
2) The meaning of Ahane is a little bridge. Knockbrack Brack was the old Dublin road. It is called Killinagariff because there is an old church there. It is called Barrington's Bridge because Barrington owned the bridge. It is called Clyduff because "Claidhe Dubh" is a black ditch.3) The Ahane road leads from the cross of Laught to the road going to Newport. The old Dublin road is leading to the Newport road.4) Annagh road is leading from the Cross of Laught to Ashroe. Killinagariff road is leading from Ard Varna to Barrington's Bridge.

There is an old house near the church in Ahane and in olden days there used to be a wood carving class in it. The class was taught by a lady of the name of Miss Bourke who lived in Thornfield. She was supposed to get her knowledge of wood carving on the Continent of Europe. The class was a great sucess They carved a stairs for Glenstal Castle, which is now the Priory occupied by the Benedictines which can be seen by any person who go in there, and written on it is, Carved by the Ahane Carving class. There was a man by the name of Mr. Coghlan who went to the class, afterwards earned his living in Todd & Company. And another man by the name of Mr. Nicholas who went to Chicago to the world's fair Exhebition. When this lady's father died she left Thornfield and then the class was discontinued.

In Clashnacrona a township situated between the Parishes of Drimoleague and Dunmanway is a large level field close to cross roads locally known as the Hurling Field" where on Sunday afternoon in bygone days many matches of hurling and football were played.
From this field the ground slopes downwards to the Ahane, a river which rises to the north of Clashnacrona in a place called Milane Hill. this river flows southwards to enter the lakes of Gunane and later eastwards through the valley of Gloundawh to join the Ban don. There are three beautiful lakes situated in Gunane known as the Western, Middle and Eastern Lake. The Ahane river draws the three of

Fairy forts in our school district are fairly numerous namely Ard na Gaoithe three, Ahane, two, Cnoc an Gharrain one, Cnoc na Gaoithe fourteen, Daragh one, Dhuarigle one, Raughoune two, Gortnacreh two, Mologhroe three, Lisnasaorsean one. In early

into stones. These stones can plainly be seen some of them at Ahane Cross and more of them in the Tracton bogs near to this cross. After the wolves were cursed he gathered up the bones of his sister and he bathed them in this holy well and she came to life again. St. Patrick and St. Finian are mentioned in connection with this well.

In Ahane another hedge school existed. The teacher's name was Thomas Moloney, who taught the older pupils during the night and the young children during

Some years ago it was supposed that a big quantity of gold was hidden in a heather-clad hill in Ahane. A certain man committed a crime and was hiding from the guards. It happened that he sat down just over the spot where the gold was hidden. As he

Seán Léigheann whose real name was John Drinan taught a school at Ahane in the townland of Tubrid He received no government money but was paid by the scholars and was a wonderful teacher.
In the field which is now known as Mike Barry's half acre at Ahane in the Townland of Tubrid the Kildare Society had a school which Catholic children attended.
There was another school at Ballyfeard village taught by a protestant named Gane. Catholic children attended this school until they were big enough to attend the Catholic school which was at Ballymartle John OSullivan of Kilboy who attended it was one day taken by the priest on his car to the Ballymartle school.
This teacher wished to keep the floor of his school clean; so each boy brought with him to school a bush of green furze. The tops of the furze were removed and each boy with boots trampled the furze into a solid mat for cleaning the boots
Gane in the end became a Catholic and was buried at Ballyfeard graveyard
Gane's school described by John OSullivan, Kilboy Belgooly, Kinsale , 74 yrs

There are many holy wells in this district. The best known one in my district is in the townland of Tracton and about four or five miles from Carrigaline. Many people still visit this well on certain days. Rounds are not performed often now, if they are performed at all. There is a story told locally about the Saint's sister who was out late at night. When her brother who was supposed to be St. Finian missed her he cursed her and said "that the wolves might eat you". Immediately he had her cursed he heard the wolves howling and knew that some evil had befallen her so he set out in the night and found her at Ahane Cross which is not very far from this well and the wolves devouring what remained of her. When he saw what evil himself had done he cursed the wolves who turned

In many districts throughout the country forts are very plentiful but in this district there are only a few. The most important of these is situated in the land of James Walsh, Ahane. This is a very large fort containing about a quarter of ground. In the centre there is a large green mound with an opening in the side of it representing a doorway. It is surrounded with trees and hedges. Beside the doorway there is a large stone flag and beneath it there is another apartment. The fort is never interfered with because the people believe it is haunted. The land in which the fort is situated is very good land and the cattle are allowed to feed around it.

Limerick, Cork and Clare. He is now 85 years of age. Time Keane of Ahane was a famous mower. He used to earn his hire by starting on June and from that until October mowing an Irish acre and 3/4 each day. He was 65 years when he died. A professional mower named Grady, if we may so call him, used to hire into Bally Mc Elligott every summer during the mowing season and farmers vied with one another to have him. After such labour "Graady" was getting a little deaf and on one occasion his far-farmed scythe refused to add to the swarth, again he tried but with the same result and in desperation cried out "You're failing Grady" when he could not cut through a tin can.

Some time ago flax was grown around here. It was set one time about a mile from where I live in a place called Ahane. It used be set in plots like wheat and when the blue flower would come on it, it used be pulled and then bogged in a marshy place. It used be bogged near a well called Peter's well - in Co Kerry on the banks of the Feale near Mt Collin's creamery bridge. In them times it used have to be bogged very quietly because if the police knew it they would be fined heavily because the water from the flax hole would poison the river.

A boy a relative of mine told me that he heard her as a youth. He was very fond of reading, and used stay up reading after the rest of the family had retired. He was thus engaged one night, when almost every dog in the parish started to bark furiously. Then after some time, he heard a long wailing cry at first far off, but coming gradually nearer until it reached crescendo then it died away slowly again, to a mournful wail. He is supported in this story by several, who also state they heard her on the same night, there being a woman in the district dead. A woman from the parish of Ahane, tells me that she and her brothers and sisters once heard the Banshee, while her parents were out at a wake. They describe the cry much the same; they also say that they were conscious of a funny feeling of cold shivers, when they heard the cry. Another girl from Killaloe also states she heard the cry the night somebody in the district

There was a hedge-school in Ahane Killengarriff. The master's name was James Moloney and he taught English, Sums, Writing, Grammar and Geography. There was no blackboard or no desks but the master had a big slate on which he used to write what he was teaching. This school was on the side of a country by-road in a little house. There were two classes one in the day one in the night. The big boys and girls went in the night and the younger boys and girls went in the day. Each child that went to the school had to pay 10s a year.

Mr, Michael Wilmot Drominboy Ahane
Mr, Michael Noonan Mt. Shannon
Mr, Dick Malley Killeenagariff Ahane
Mr. (Dick) James Power Coolbredeen Murroe
Mr, James Doyle Murroe
Mr, John OKeefe Rivers
Mr, Simon Leahy Nurroe.
Mr, Dan Ryan Annagh Murroe,
Mr, John Ryan Annagh Murroe.

Long ago there were such things as hedge school, taught by smart men in their own homes. With a table for a desk and a stool to sit on, no boards, no maps and no jottors only a slate and a pencil. There was a hedge school teacher named James Molony who lived in Killinagariff and the parents had to pay him school fees so much a quarter according to the classes. Only for the hedge school teachers the people that were far away from the schools would have no education.
Frances Ryan
Ahane
Lisnagry
Co Limk
This story was given to me by my mother.
Mrs Ryan
Ahane
Lisnagry

curse they had.
Colonel Aldworth and Major Aldworth who lived at the court in Newmarket were the landlords of the land to the right of the River Feale and Lyreneague River. Major Aldworth was not as good a landlord as Lord Cork. He gave no slate and timber to his tenants, and was quicker to order an eviction.
Deane who lived in Cobh was the landlord of Glounakeel, and Ahane. The former a townland in this parish.