About a hundred years ago, there was said to be a gold store in Doonbeg Castle. It was in hide in a wall in the castle and a ghost in the form of a bull minding it. A person would have to dream to have the nerve to find it. One night three men from Doonbeg dreamt of the gold and they went to find. When they arrived at the castle a cock crew warning danger and they got afraid and ran.

There are five graveyards in the parish, namely, Doonbeg, Clohanes, Killard, Kiltenáin and Dunmore(Protestant). People are buried in those still. Doonbeg is a rectangular shape. Clohanes is round. Killard is also round. There is the ruins of an old church in Killard and also in Clohanes. Several people are buried within the ruins. There aren't trees or bushes in any of them. Children who died without baptism were buried in catholic graveyards. Some people from the parish are buried in outside parish graveyards.

About eighty years there were two Mac Inerney priests in Doonbeg parish. There was

About two miles to the south of Baltard castle is situated the ruin of St Lenan's church and altar in the parish of Killard now called the new Doonbeg parish because the new and principal church in the Parish is built in Doonbeg.This spot where St Senan's Church and altar are situated is one of the most remarkable places in Clare. A bell fell from heaven on the spot where the altar was erected.

1.The Cnucán at Pat Breen in Doonbeg.
2. Páirc na Croise owned by James Haugh of Doonbeg.
3. Páirc an Leasa owned by Jack Considine in Rhynagonnaught.
4.Páirc an chapaill in Baltard owned by Miss Blackhall.
5.Páirc na Drobáinn in Dunmore. The field of the drills.
6.Glas Cloun owned by Mr. Murrihy of Killard is said to be the greenest in the place.
7.The Corkus up the "inbhear" owned by Pat Keane and John Dillon Doonbeg.
8.Cathairfionnric- a townland to the east of the parish-Caherfeenick.
9. Doire Árd- "The High Oak" -A townland to the south of the parish.
10. Cill Árd- "The High Church"-Parish called after it.
11. Cathair linn in Killard owned by Mr. Haugh - no crops grow in this field.
12.Tuirín-"A place for bleaching linen".- A Townland near Doonbeg River possibly linen was grown there in olden times.

Cloch Bhreac is a great big stone situated on the side of the road that is leading to Clooninagh. It is a big speckled stone and that is the reason it is called Cloch Bhreac. It is about as high as a man and as stout as a cock of hay. There are many stories told about this stone.
It is said that two giants lived near this place, one in Knockroe, south of this school and the other in Knockma north of this school. Each giant stood on top of his own hill. It is said that they were fighting and that the giant that was standing on Knockroe threw a stone at the giant on Knockma. The stone did not go any further than Doonbeg and that is the stone that is there to-day.
There is another story told about that stone. The two giants were said to be throwing stones at each other and the two stones met and stuck and fell in Doonbeg.

About sixty five years ago there was a great hurling match played on the strand at Doughmore near Doonbeg. This match attracted a big crowd of people as it was a challenge match between the parishes of Kilmurry I'Brekane and Killard. The game started on the bounds of the two parishes, Kilmurry I'Brickane and Doonbeg. There were no goals and the game was to bring the ball from one parish to another.The game was played on the sand and the pitch was over 3/4 of a mile in length. There were twenty-one men on each side. An old man named Stack was captain of the Kilmurry team and a man named Blake was captain of the Killard team. After about two hours tussling John Kinnane of the Kilmurry team succeeded in taking the ball, and hurling it on before until he drove it across the stream bounding the two parishes. This gave the game to Kilmurry.John Kinnane of Cregane was the hero of the

Hurling and football were the games played long ago. There was a great football match held in Coore about fifty years ago between Kilmurry Ibrickane and Kilmacduane. At that time there were twenty one men on each sdie. Kilmurry were the best players and they won the match. There did a large number of people come on horse cars and numbers walking even the old men with their walking-canes.There was a great hurling match in Doonbeg between Kilmurry and Doonbeg. It was the custom in hurling that whoever would

There are five graveyards in this parish, one in Killard, one in Doonbeg, one in Clohanes, one in Kiltenane and one in Farrihy. The graveyard in Killard is the best situated one it is about one hundred yards from the road but the only fault is the graves are very badly kept. The are nettles and briars growing on them and also around them.
The graveyard in Doonbeg is situated far too near the public road and it is very badly kept but there was a great effort made to repair it by the people who had graves in it about a fortnight ago. They have all the knocked down tombstones put standing straight and they have

There lived in Doonbeg about twenty years ago a poet named Angel McGrath. He composed many songs and poems in English.One evening it happened that a man was drink in Doonbeg and he got unconscious. Angel McGrath and a few others laid the drunken man on the door of a creel and paraded through Doonbeg a few times. Then they brought him to a house in the village as if he were dead and waked him there. When he awoke he did not know where he was and he was surprised. Then Angel McGrath composed a song about the drunken man."Twas over at Hayes' they waked him,
With candles one, two and three,
With tobacco and snuff on the table,
And a gallon of Irish poteen."There was a poet also in Cooraclare Parish named Thomas Kelly. When he was going to America about sixty years ago he composed this song:-"Farewell, dear father and loving mother,
Brothers and sisters my love to you,
You'll nightly pray for the youthful rover,
That has gone over and left Cahrew."

There is a liss in the village of Doonbeg, which gets its name from the Dun or fort that is in it. There is another liss or rath in the village of Rathmore, which also gets its name from the Rath that is in it.
They are of a round shape with a clay ditch all around them. There is a hole in the middle of the one that is in Rathmore, but not in the one that is in the village of Doonbeg. The hole that was in Rathmore is closed up now. It was opened about fifty years ago. When it was opened some people went into it and they came into a room.They saw a sort of a hole at the foot of one of the walls and they began to dig around the hole and found that they could creep into it.
They came into another room larger than the first one with very neat walls in it. They went into a third room but then returned back again and did not go any further. They did not know where those rooms ended but it is said that they are ended at Raftery's house in Corofin.

I never heard of gold or silver hidden in this townland (Mountrivers). I heard people say that there was gold hidden in Dunmore Castle (near Doonbeg). There is gold hidden in Doughmore seashore.

There are four graveyards in this parish, namely, Doonbeg, Killard, Farrihy and Clohanes. There are people buried in each of them still. There is an old ruin in Killard graveyard. There are people buried in the ruin. There are no trees or bushes in any of the graveyards. Ther are no unused graveyards in the parish.

This woman travelled from Belfast to Doonbeg before she got hospitality to keep her. The people around knew she came from Belfast so they called her Mary Belfast then to - her house

One day a travelling manna med Tom Connors went to see Fr. Browne P.P. Doonbeg R.I.P. It was around Christmas and he offered Tom a Glass of Whiskey. While he was drinking it he said to him. Now Tom every glass of that you take is putting a nail in your coffin. "Oh good Lord Father drive another as quick as you can" meaning give me another drop out of the bottle.

The people of Doonbeg were going on Sundays to the sea picking seaweed and they would not go to Mass. The priest told them not to mind picking seaweed that the time would come when carriages would do down through the shaking bogs of Shragh that would carry all the sand from the sand hills of Doughmore. He also said that the pigs and potatoes would fail in them and so

There are very few castles in this district. Baltard Castle is the nearest to Kilrush. It is supposed to have been built by the Danes who settled peacefully in Ireland after they invaded. Donogroghie Castle in Killimer is a very large building and is still occupied as a dwelling place. Doonbeg Castle is in ruins - the walls are still standing but the interior is dilapidated. It was occupied about 30 years ago by an old woman named Bridget Moriarty.

A Story
Some years ago there was a man coming home from a fair one night from the village of Doonbeg.When he was about a mile from the village the donkey stood up in the middle of the road and wouldn't move one step further .The man unharnessed the the donkey from the car and pulled the car along the road himself until he had it brought it about fifty yards.The came back for the donkey but he couldn't get him to move one step .A strange man appeared and took the donkey and led him to where the car was.When the owner of the donkey thought to thank him he was gone.

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he asked for was his hat,they told him that the singer had it and the man was very troubled ,and he started off afer him.He went to Doonbeg and he was told that the singer was gone to Kilkee,he was told there that he had gone to Kilrush ,he got up to him there, and caught him by the neck and pulled the hat off his head and to his sad frief the lining and belt was gone .He asked the singer what became of them and he told him his heel got blistered and he put lining around it .Then the singer pulled off his shoe and gave him the money.The man returned home and lived happily after.

There are two tailors in the parish of Doonbeg, Pat Keane and Blune. These two tailors work inside in their houses, The tailors sell the cloth. He was a sewing machine scissors thimble. Mostly shop articles, articles except the stockings and some jerseys. There is a weaver named Blake in Baltard and not long ago there was Moylan living in Kildimo. There is a woollen spinning what in nearly every house around but a few of them are used now. There are few linen wheels in the district and few women able to spin with it. Very few people grow flax nowadays. When the women picked the flax they buried it in a trench and covered it with scraws and left it there for twelve days. They take it up then and dry they spread to out on the bog to bleach. Then they gather it