Long ago it was the custom for boys and girls of Kilfearagh to go to a fort in the district dancing. One Sunday evening when they were dancing there was a girl by the name of Mary Houlihan swallowed up in the fort and she was never seen or heard of since and since that day out it was called Houlihan's fort.

The names of some people who went around were Mrs. Rock who came from Kerry. She stayed in Kilfearagh and went around to the houses about once a week and she sang songs and her favourite song was "A Bunch of Green Willows"
Jack McCarthy was another who went around making and mending tins cans and kettles and as he was alone he went around with them and sold them.
He made a fire by the roadside in the Summer time and made them. It was said that he also came from Tralee in Co. Kerry
Michael Geary the Fiddler went around with a donkey and two baskets on his

Bhí siopa beag ag mnaoi bhoicht do bhí na comhnaidhe i gCill Chaoi fhadó. Chuaidh sí go Cill Ruis lá, agus, maille le rudaí eile, do cheannuig sí púnt tobac cun é mhion-dhíol.Ar a theacht abhaile dhí do chaillsí an tobac agus nuair do mhothuig sí uaithe é do bhuail sí isteach go dtí tigh Thiomáis Ciosóig an file.D'iarr sí ar Tomás fógradh do scríobh dí dtaobh an tobac, agus é chuir go dtí an Sagart i dtreo go léighfidh sé é ag an Aifreann an Domhnach bhí na gceann. Seo mar scríobh an Cíosógach.
A Shagairt áluinn chalma, tá nídh agam duit le fógairt;Púnt tobac do chaileadh idir Cill Chaoi agus tigh an ChíosógaighDo chaill bean bhocht chráidhte dealbh é, do cheannuigh ar luach a cóta éAn té fuair é, is ná tabharfaidh uaidh é, go gcaithear ar a thorramh é.
Cusach the poet who wrote the above lived in Kilkee. His son Tom Cusack who was a slater and plasterer in Kilkee is buried in Kilfearagh churchyard and the following inscription is in the flag over the grave. Tom Cusack who cut the inscription on the stone died about 45 years ago