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  1. Other Old Ruins

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    There is an old ruin in Lixnaw and another in Listowel. They belong to the Norman times. The Fitzmaurice family lived in Lixnaw Castle 1215-1582. These two castles Lixnaw and Listowel were built about the same time as the castles around this district and they were destroyed about the same time also. If you go to Lixnaw the old people would show you the "Cockhouse" and the Hermitage and the "old Court". Lixnaw was the seat of the Geraldine family in Munster. There was a young child in the Listowel castle, he was brought out dressed in rags in order to save his life. He was taken secretly to England and educated there. He was allowed back in later years and in changed times and made governor of Kerry.

  2. The Monument

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    of several English names which still live in Lixnaw.

  3. The Monument

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    This structure was raised by William Fitzmaurice, the twentieth Baron of Lixnaw in the year 1690.

  4. Hidden Treasures

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    Lixnaw towards the end of the 9th century.

  5. A Sick Call

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    Tom Daly, Irramore, Lixnaw , 55 years of age and living, went one night on a sick call for his next door neighbour, lately deceased (October 1938). He reached Lixnaw on a saddle horse. The Curate Fr O'Shea (now deceased) came on horse-back with him, and as they approached Dysert Cross on the Lixnaw - Listowel road about half a mile from Lixnaw, Fr O'Shea's horse shied. The night was very dark. The priest could not get his horse to go forward. The above mentioned had no difficulty.
    The priest urged and urged his animal but the animal was buffetted as by a violent wind. The priest persevered and several times asked his companion "Do you see anything?"

  6. Lixnaw

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    Earl of Desmand. The abbey of O'Dorney (the walls of the old Abbey are still standing near the present village of O'Dorney or Abbeydorney) helped Fitzmaurice who was then styled Earl of Kerry, and Baron of Lixnaw, and the Abbot was killed during the attack.
    Shortly after this in 1582 Fitzmaurice destroyed his castle at Lixnaw as well as the castles at Lick and Ballybunion. It was again repaired. In 1559 after Lord Carew had taken Glin Castle, he sent Sir Charles Wilmot with an army into Kerry (the Irraghticonnor and Clanmaurice). When Wilmot reached Lixnaw Castle he found it undermined and propped with timber ready to be destroyed, and he left a garrison there. When the Spaniards landed at Kinsale in 1601 Lixnaw Castle was again taken by the Irish.

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    “About a hundred years ago it was a common thing to find men working in the fields and in the bogs with a good knowledge not only of Irish but also of the classic.”

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    About a hundred years ago it was a common thing to find men working in the fields and in the bogs with a good knowledge not only of Irish but also of the classic. There was a man in Lixnaw whose name was Shawn Bawn McEllyott. Shawn was expelled out of Trinity College. When he was working in the bog he used talk in Latin to his companion who was also at one time in Trinity. Shawn's people were farmers in Ballyinagare in Lixnaw. Shawn went to Trinity first as a result of an examenation. There was a gentleman farmer living near Lixnaw whose son was also going. He said. "What does a rough ignorant

  8. An Old Story

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    There was once a very poor man who lived in Lixnaw and he was so poor that he was called the nick name the Earl of Lixnaw. He had one son. He was a very good looking man and a respectable boy so he went to England to make his fortune. When he went to England he was asked who he was. He said he was the son of the Earl of Lixnaw. A gentleman's daughter wanted to get married to him so the gentleman sent one of his men to see the Earl. When he went to the door two goats met him and would not let him in until the Earl himself came to the door and hunted them.

  9. Lixnaw

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    sways, and down to the end of the 18th Century, the house at Lixnaw was a favoured abode. (1774) Dr Smith says:- "Lixnaw stands agreeably on the river Brick, which is here cut into several canals that adorn its plantations and groves. The tide flows up to the gardens, whereby boats of a considerable burden may bring up goods to the bridge near the house here are two bridges over the Brick, the oldest of which was built by Nicholas, the third baron of Lixnaw, who was the first to make causeways to this place, the land being wet and marshy. The present house consists of a large building, with wings on

  10. May Morning

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    to a well with a small can; she tied it in the corner of her apron. The woman stooped down and filled her can. In a minute she was lifted off the ground and before she knew where she was, she was on top of the hill near the Lixnaw Monument (This Monument was built by the 2nd Earl of Lixnaw as a burial place for his descendants). In the heel of the hunt it took her a day and a night to come home. Her husband and son were searching for her all day.

  11. Local Industries - Lime-Kilns

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    be thrown up against the sieve - which has a stand some what similar to a black board - so as to remove the "slack" lime from the hard lumps of lime. The "lump" lime is used for white-washing and building purposes and is sold for 2/6 per barrel measure, and the "slack" lime for about 5/- per load, this lime is used for manuring the land. There are two big lime kilns in the vicinity of Lixnaw, one in Ballintoker owned by William Mc Auliffe and one in Ballinclogher owned by John Brosnan, both of these kilns supply the people of Lixnaw, and the people from the neighbouring districts with lime.

  12. A Story of Buried Treasure

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    In almost every townland in Ireland there is supposed to be a hidden treasure. There is supposed to be a hidden treasure in the Monument in in William Walshe's field, in the townland of Lixnaw. It is said that it was put there by the Lords of Lixnaw. About forty years ago some men went to dig it up and it is said that every time they went to dig it up a dig black bull followed them. This treasure is supposed to be worth a good deal of money.

  13. A Story of Buried Treasure

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    which is a dome-shaped building built on elevated ground near the village of Lixnaw. The building was built by one of the Fitzmaurices who were Lords of Lixnaw long ago. It is said that one on these Lords is buried in this Monument.

  14. Tobar Dromanna agus Tobar na hEochnann

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    There are two wells near one another in the farm of Frank Quilter of Ballyrehan Lixnaw Co Kerry. They are used by the local people to get a supply of water for drinking and cooking. A woman who lives there to the present day told me when she was a school girl 50 years ago the P.P. of Lixnaw asked her to take him a bottle of the water of Tobar Dromanna, every day to drink it.They are not looked upon as Blessed wells but still the local people hold them in respect and like to get water from them.

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    “In the year 1834 the boat was drowned”

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    water's edge and was crowded to a man. Her father told the man from Lixnaw not to throw him into the boat that it was over crowded and would be lost but the ride with all possible speed to the Cashen's mouth where Mc Elligott's boat from Lixnaw was loading sand and so reached the other side in safety.

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    “The parish priest of Lixnaw, all his butter was carried with pishogues.”

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    The parish priest of Lixnaw, all his butter was carried with pishogues. He had twelve cows milking and whatever bit of butter he used to make he used to send it to the market in Cork. At that time he was only able to get sixth quality for it and this quality was titled "Bishop". He used to say "I have the privilege of being parish priest of Lixnaw and Bishop of Cork."

  17. Lixnaw

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    In Lixnaw, many years ago lived the Lucene, a section of the Milesian horde, which overran Ireland. From this Luceni Lixnaw takes its name. A landmark for the whole countryside is the curious domed building, standing on a slight eminence, not far from the railway station. This building marks the last resting place of the Earls of Kerry, the centre of whose vast territory was this village. The whole barony of Clanmaurice formerly belonged to this family of Fitzmaurice.
    Lixnaw was not always the unimportant place it is at the present day. Formerly, a strong castle stood where the grass now

  18. A Story of Buried Treasure

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    It is said that a crock of gold was hidden somewhere near the Monument in Lixnaw long ago. The Monument stands on elevated ground in a field now owned by Mr. Walsh in the townland of Lixnaw. It was built during the reign of the Fitzmaurices who were Earls of Lixnaw long ago.
    No one knows who hid it where but it is thought that someone who was pursued by robbers hid it there in haste. It is said that members of a certain family named Behan went in search of this money and were unsuccessful several times, being driven away by a furious bull.
    They persevered in digging and it is commonly thought that they eventually found it. It is said that one member of this family ruined his health by being continually out at night looking for the treasure and that he died as a result. This family lived in Ballintogher

  19. Local Ruins

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    There are the ruins of the Old Courts near my district. The castle was built by Thomas Fitzmaurice in the year 1200. It is derelict since the 1780. It is situated in the townland of the Old Courts, in the parish of Lixnaw and in the barony of Clanmauricce and in the County of Kerry. Thomas Fitzmaurice was the some of Maurice Fitzgeraldd and Maurice Fitzgerald for Lixnaw from Raymond Le (Gos) Gros. The Lady of Kerry once said there were no places worth living in but London and Lixnaw.
    The Castle long ago was an important and majestic building. There were grand rooms in it with beautifully decorated offices and there were costly paintings on the walls and a beautiful, ornamental entrance. There were beautiful gardens near the castle. They gave banquets and parties at night to their friends. They gave entertainment of music and song and dance. A huge bullock and fat sheep and dozens of wild fowl were brought to the various tables

  20. Our Holy Wells

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    In the parish of Lixnaw there is but one blessed well and the name of it is Saint Michael's well. It is situated in the townland of Ballinageragh and it is about a hundred yards from the road. This blessed well is in Mr. Thomas O'Brien's field. Where this blessed well is there once stood an old Church and a little of the ruins of it are still to be seen there. The priests of the parish used to say Mass there long ago. There is a "Pattern" held in the village of Lixnaw of the 29th of September each year and many people visit the well on that day. There was a very nice statue erected near the well by Mrs Dan Quilter, Gortinare, Lixnaw, in honour of Saint Michael.
    This woman is still alive. She placed this statue there in thanksgiving for being cured of a nervous disease.
    This woman was very nervous and she was not able to go out or do her work. One day she went to the back door and she