there are still visible and it was in the month of July those rounds were paid and there is a well there still called "Saint Anne's Well." According to the old people St. Crohane is the patron saint of this place. The old Church ruins in Coad are dedictated to St. Crohane. The eastern stone has a slap of stone which is cut in the form of a cross. At the end of the ruin is a holy well shaded by a huge ash tree People pay rounds here on the thirtieth of July which is his feast day. Very long ago there was a man cured there. He was blind but nowadays there are no cures effected there there as it is more for pleasure people go there. Long ago they celebrated Mass in the open air there and long sermons were given on his life. It is said it was near that place he was beheaded by Cromwell's soldiers and his head rolled and where it rolled a well sprung up. There were several people baptized in the name of Crohane. There was a Crohane Galvin who is now dead. Crohane MacGillicuddy who is still living in America also a Crohane Downing a Crohane Malvey and a Crohane Burns and several others of the name. This

waste and subjected all the southern part of the Iveragh Peninsula. Travelling to the West along the road to Caherdaniel at about a mile and a half distance from here we come on a road which brings us to Coad a mile or so on the hillside. Here are the ruins of Cill Crohane or the church of St Crohane the patron of the parish. The old church where St Crohane preached is easily distinguished from a newer church which is now ruined too as its walls are now very low and all overgrown with grass and ivy. Mass was celebrated in the ruins of the newer church on St Crohane's Day 29th of July until recent years. In the graveyard, where the ruins stands generation after generation of the people of the parish have been buried.The fort or Cathair which gives its name to Caherdaniel is situated in a sheltered hollow overlooking a good harbour near Rinn na Ratha. This castle as its name implies was also built by Donal Mor O'Sullivan. In shape it is like his other fort in Bunanner but its walls are better looked after and have not been knocked down. A little way up from Caherdaniel on the road to Waterville we come on Cathair na Gaoithe, an old circular fort with deep mounds of earth all around it. The fort seems to have been of very ancient origin as there is very little left of its walls. From what is left, however and from all the stones around, which have, doubtless fallen from it we get some idea of its one-time strength. All around it on the south side of the walls are long slits from which a view of Derrynane Bay could be easily got while those inside were under cover. The builders of this stronghold, whether, Celts Danes or Normans knew well where to find a situation for their fort. Proudly it overlooks the

There is a road going down by the Two Trees, and it is called the New Line. It was made in the Famine Times. There was a road going out by the Moat of Crohane. It was starting from Mrs Grace's in Newtown to the old Protestant Church in Crohane.

St. Sinech.
Patroness of Crohane
The ancient parish of Crohane, which now forms the western portion of the parish of Ballincurry, in the Barony of Slieveardagh, comprised the following townlands :- Crohane Upper and Lower, Kilnahone, Coolquill, part of Lickfin, Ballykerin, Ballincurry, and Gurtanasey.
Although there is but little in the vicinity of it's old church site to attract the attention of the superficial observer, yet Crohane can justly lay claim to high antiquity. John O'Donovan, LL.D, the celebrated Irish scholar and antiquarian, had occasion to visit the place in 1840 in connection with his duties in the historical department of the Ordinance Survey; his work in that capacity resulted in a series of letters bearing on the topography and antiquities of almost

and split his head in two. This robber was from Crohane and when he didn't return that night, his wife came to look for him. She found him dead and put him up on her shoulders and carried him home to Crohane.

of the Danish invasion and for centuries after Ireland was thickly wooded. Gerald Barry a writer of the 12th century states that in his time the open plains of Ireland were of small extent in comparison with the woodlands.
Eoghanacth of Cashel the name of the territory in which Crohane was situated was so called from Eoghan or Owen son of Ailioll Olum, King of Munster in the 3rd century. The boundaries of this ancient territory are now unknown.
An ecclesiastical establishment must have existed at an early period in Crohane for we find St. Sinech of Crohane mentioned in the old Irish Martyrologies. In the Feilire of Aengus written about the year 800, she is thus commemorated

The name of this village is Kilcrohane. It is called after a saint who lived down near teh sea There is also a place on the Kerry coast on that shore of Kenmare Bay called Kilcrohane. It is called after the same saint Saint Crohane (Crócáin). It was north in Kerry the saint lived first. He built a church there. It is now in ruins There is a grave yard around it. There is also a holy well in that district to which the people of that district still pay rounds. There is a cure up in the hill side, where the saint used go to pray.But somehow or other Crohane offended the chief of that district, who sent him away. Crohane left the place by boat. He said out around the heads and turned in the Dunmanus Bay where he landed. He built a church a little way up from the sea. There is only one part of it there now but it is the same as the church in Kerry. The field in which it was built is now a graveyardIn the north western corner of the graveyard there is a part of a house. It was a very well built house. The stones around the doorway were cut. This house was nearly square in shape. It is not known what it was used for but it is supposed to be the house in which the priest lived. Some time ago when there was

Cromwell's Army is reputed to have passed this way from Clonmel. Two of his soldiers are supposed to be buried inside Lahert's gate under bushes (Crohane). There is a field in John Tobin's farm, Crohane called Cromwell's Grave. Cromwell himself is supposed to have last a tooth on Fenelly's Hill in Ballingarry.
There was a man named Theobald (Toby) Butler living at Williamstown Ballingarry at that time. He invited Cromwell's officers to dinner. When they arrived on the top of Crohane Hill Butler's place was on fire. He represented to Cromwell that it was on account of the invitation his place was burned. Cromwell gave to him the whole townsland of Williamstown.Gahan, Graham, Hall, Cunningham, Duggan, Guiry, Scott, Horan (formerly Hore), Lyre and Smith are all names of the Cromwellian planters.[W. Perry]

In the townland of Crohane, parish of Kilnamona there stands an old Danish fort in the centre of a green meadow.

Coolcolaughta has no patron saint as far as I can ascertain but the patron Saint of Durrus is St. Fochna. Very little is known about him in fact nothing but his name. There is no Church or Cemetery named after him neither do any of the local people bear the name Fachna.
But at the other end of the Parish a Saint Crohane is supposed to have taken up his abode. Like St. Ciaran he was a native of Cape Clear island and after a time he crossed to a spot at the other side of the Bay. This district has ever since been known by his name and a little village has sprung up there.
He built a little Church near the water's edge which stands on about an acre of ground. It has withstood the storms of hundreds of years and is still fairly intact though recently one wall of it had to be demolished as it was a menace to travellers.
The Church is reputed to have been built by the Saint and his clerics hence the name Kil-Crohane the Church of Crohane.
There is no holiday of

is, she herself, in Cruachan Maige Abna in Eoganacht of Cashel. Sinech, i.e. Fergna is her father's name. Or she is ergna i.e., good, from Cruachan Maige Abna.
The Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland contains lists of valuation and taxation of various parishes throughout the country made by orders of Pope Boniface viii in the year 1302. On those lists the Church of Crohane appears as follows :-
Diocese of Cashel.
Deanery of Slefardach.
The Church of Crohane was twice taxed because there are diverse rectors there of whom one died, and on his behalf the church is vacant; the first jurors said that the whole church is worth : value 16 marks. Tenth 21s. 4d
Magh Abna, or Mowney, which lies to East of Crohane, is a small parish containing the following townlands as enumerated in old documents - Shanagarry, Garrynoe, Knockankit, Dundrenan, and Kilmocullmoge. On the Down Survey Map (1654) there is one townland unnamed, the boundaries of which correspond to

young and healthy come to his sacred spot and with profound humility beseech favours cures and blessings of Almighty God. It is usually the custom to take a bit of bark from the tree and to leave a coin or something on it instead.
The bit of bark is supposed to have a cure in it and the sick rub it to their affected part.
There is another holy well at Code called St. Crohane's well. People go to this well every year on the 29th of July. There is a rock near the well and there is a representation of St. Crohane's back on it because it is said he stretched near this rock once. There is also a tree there and it is around

There are two graveyards in the parish. One is situated around the Chapel, and the other is situated in Lower Ballingarry. The Chapel graveyard slops westward and the old Church yard slops westward also. There are some very old Tombstones which are dated back as far as the nineteenth century. Some people from this parish are buried in Crohane, Lismolin, and Modeshill graveyards. The Church in Crohane was used as a Protestant Church. There are two disused graveyards in the parish, namely Jessfield graveyard and Shangarry graveyards. The field in which Shangarry graveyard was, is owned now by J. Lutrell. All the unbaptised children of this parish were buried in Jessfield. There are small stones to mark the graves there. The last child that was buried there was Guinan. All the stones are uninscribed there. There is a tradition that there was a graveyard in Glengall in a field locally known as "Boundrock", and another in Knockroe. This parish in olden days was known as the parish of Mooney. There aren't any old Tombstones in these graves.

Ballincurry, N.S. 11389
Thurles.
Co. Tipperary
Built and opened 1875.
Original school located in Crohane. called Crohane N.S.
Manager. John Ryan D.D. P.P.
native of this locality, distinguished Churchman.
Teachers (transferred from Crohane, N.S. to Ballincurry, N.S.) - Principal - Garrett O'Sullivan
Assistant - Margaret Croke.

And when we were coming up Crohane we saw all the men travelling the mountain, looking for my dead body. So I needn't tell you the delight there was at home when I arrived. I had a great time then, as mother said it would be right to give me a present so I got a handsome new suit and I only lost two days from school.

It is not generally known that Crohane was the scene of a battle in which the Norwegians were defeated with terrible slaughter in the year 852. "Up to this time" the annals record the Lochlanns had not suffered so great a loss in all Erin. In an ancient compillation known as "Three Fragments of Annals" translated from the Irish by J. O'Donovan, the following account of the battle is given - 852. In the same year the men of Munster sent messangers to Cearbhall

tells us of the Act enacted during the reign of Queen Anne for the regenerates of what the Saxon was pleased to title "Papish Priests" and we read that on the 11th July 1704 the registered Parish Priest of Ballingarry Crohane, and Lismolin was one Father William Kelly aged 72 years who lived in Gragane (Gragaugh).

a monk who is now St. Déthinn. The monks had two monasteries, one in Crohane and the other in Priestown, close to the cave.One morning the monk was going from Crohane to Priestown to attend at Mass when he heard Mass bell ringing. He knelt by the foot of a felled oak-tree and recited his Mass prayers. He struck his staff in the centre of the oak and when leaving he blessed the place. Gradually the hole made by the staff became larger and water came. The well is now covered with cement and it resembles a tub.In olden times people came long distances to pray at the well and it is said that the water cured people of many diseases. The well never goes dry and in 1923 when all wells were dry people came from far and near for water.If one stands in front of the well and says "Spring up

Year's ago there was a very big battle fought by the Irish and the Danes in Lower Crohane around the Protestant Church. It was the worst battle that was ever fought. The best of the Irish men were killed there