I am living in the townland of Whitechurch. The Parish is called Suttons Parish and it is in the Barony of Shelburne. There are twenty-three families living in the townland of Whitechurch. The houses are slated. The townland got its

There was a well in a field called "St Brigids Well. One night it went dry and all the people wondered what had happened when they saw it next morning. Late after-wards someone saw that a spring had burst in ground in a new place. This well was in Whitechurch.
In the village of Whitechurch about five miles from New Ross, there is "a Green" as it is called. It is the ruins of an old farm of long ago. Mr Holden was the owner of it. But now it is like an old stoney field with grass growing on it. No matter what kind of weather we have it is always green. About half a mile east of Whitechurch on the main-road there is a cross called "Griffin's Cross." Some years ago a Protestant farmer lived there. They still own the farm but they do not live there. About half a mile below Piltown by the side of the river Barrow there is a place called "the Stage." Some years ago ships used unload coal and other cargo's there. "The Ice

There was a football matche played long ago beween Whitechurch and New Ross.
It was played in Terrerath. There were fifteen men on each side. Whitechurch players won the matche that day. They won with a big score. The scores were Whitechurch 6 goals 2 points New Ross 2 goals 1 point. In olden times the teams playing matches just kicked or hurled in their own clothes. Goal posts were not used those times. The way the goals were pointed out was by small bushes and sometimes the teams would play from ditch to ditch.

I live in Longstone, Whitechurch, Barony of the Barretts. Five houses are in the townland and twenty people. Murphy is the most common name there. All the houses in it are slated.
It got its name from a big stone which is ten feet long and four feet high. One person live there who is over seventy. Her name is Mrs. Hobbs, Longstone, Whitechurch. She does not know Irish.

There are two Churchyards in this district, one in Kilcully and the other in Whitechurch. Both are in use. There are some very old headstones in both Churchyards and are mostly round in shape.
The oldest dates on these headstones are from sixteen hundred up. The shape of both churchyards are rectangular, Kilcully churchyard is sloping towards the west. Whitechurch churchyard is sloping towards the north-east.
There is an old ruin of a Protestant Church in the old part of Kilcully graveyards. Nobody is buried within its walls. In Whitechurch where the ruin of old church was there are graves now an people are being buried there still.
The crosses in the old part of both graveyards are mostly

I live in the townland of Rockbrook. It is situated in the parish of Rathfarnham, Co Dublin. The townlands which surround the townland of Rockbrook are -Whitechurch, Edmondstown, Mt Venus. Tibradden, and Kilmashogue.
Whitechurch is so called because a woman by the name of White got a church built there.
My father, Thomas O'Toole gave me the foregoing reason for Whitechurch getting its name. Tibradden is so called because a man or old chieftain named Bradden lived there long ago. When he died the townland was called after him.
My father, Thomas O'Toole gave me
the information about Tibradden getting its name.

Hedge -schools existed in the Penal Days. There was a school in Whitechurch which twenty-five

This is a holy well situated between upper and lower Killeens. This well got its name long ago when the Priests of Ireland were forbidden to say Mass.
One day as a priest was going across the fields from Cork to Whitechurch to say Mass a scout came to meet him telling him that the Soldiers were at Whitechurch waiting to arrest him. Then the priest decided to say mass on the spot where he met the man who had told him about the soldiers. But the man said there is no water here so you can't mass here. Suddenly a well sprung up and it got its name as All Saints Well and ever since the people around the locality go and say prayers at the well on All Saints Day November 1st.

There were two hedge schools around this district one in Whitechurch and another in Rathculbin.
A man named O Reilly taught in Whitechurch out in the open air.
O Reilly was a local man with a fair ammount of knowledge and he slept at the homes of his scholars the parents of whom paid him for the education given to their children.
The teacher knew a great quntity of

was in April and it was the heaviest one. When the heavy snow was on the ground an old woman died down in Curraghmore and the corpse was dragged on the snow from Curraghmore to Ballycullane.A priest named Father Harpur was called to go to Ballysop on a sick call. The man who went for the priest was James Quinn. The priest went by road to Charity Hill and there he had to get into a field because there was a snow-drift and he could not get through. He got out on the road again and got to Whitechurch and Walter Cleary had to go to Ballysop with him and shovel the way for him. They got back to Whitechurch and Walter Cleary had to go to Ballykelly with him. When they got to Charity Hill the priest went to get over the ditch and he went down in the snow. Walter Cleary had to pull

called "the Mountain Hill. The Kiln Field is so called there is a lime-kiln in it. Whitechurch gets its name because white monks lived there long ago. "The Stream Gates" got that name because there is a stream running under the road at the gates. There is a field in White-church called "Biddy Quinn's field". It got its name because an old woman named Biddy Quinn owned it. There is a haggard in Whitechurch called "Howlin's Haggard". It got its name because people named Howlin owned it long ago.
There are severe wells on the mountain called "the Wells of Oisin". They got that name because Oisin is believed to have drank from them when he was hunting on the mountain.

There are only three holy wells in this parish. There is one in Carrig-mannon in a field owned by Mr. Hayes another in Ardcandrisk, and another in Whitechurch in Mr. Cullmore's field.
Many people still visit them especially on the pattern day. The well in Whitechurch in dedicated to "Our Blessed Lady", and the one in Carrigmannon is dedicated to Saint Laurence.
Many people have been cured at Saint Laurence's well, but sore eyes

During the Penal days there was a Priest going from Clogheen to Whitechurch to say Mass. When he was passing by a well, a dove flew in front of his face and would not let him pass.
He said as there was water in the well he would say Mass there. When he had finished Mass he blessed the well.
He heard after that if he went on to Whitechurch he would be caught by the English soldiers. This well is called All Saints Well. To get to this well from Cork, You should get on the bus for Blarney, through Blackpool and Killeens. Till you come to a bus-stop called Roses-lane.
From this lane you will see a farmers house to the south, and to the east of this house, is another house and between these too house is the well. On your left is a another lane, and if you go in this lane you will come to the well.

Whitechurch owns it. There is a figure seen every night at about 12 o'clock in the top of this hut. When the figure goes in strange music is heard coming from the inside of it.

There was a fire in a haggard owned by Mr. Warren, Whitechurch. It happened in or about the year 1920. All the straw and hay were set on fire. There was a labour strike on at the time and it is thought that some of the strikers set fire to the ricks. They were warned about the fire a couple of days before it happened. When the flames were noticed someone gave the alarm and the neighbours came to help to out it out.

Children go to school bare-footed in summer. There was a man living in New Ross who used to come out to Whitechurch every day to

Year's ago there was a chaple in Whitechurch and when Cromwell came he burned it down. For many years after the Angelus Bell was heard night and morning and people wondered where it was ringing. People often went to see where it was ringing but they could not see it.

Old GraveyardsCruagh Graveyard This graveyard is situated in the townland of Cruagh. There is a big tower in the centre of this graveyard. The tower was built in it many years ago. Many years ago when bodies were buried in the graveyard people came to the graveyard to dig for the bodies. The men of the district used to watch them from the tower but they could never catch them.
Whitechurch GraveyardThis graveyard is situated in the townland of Whitechurch. There is an old ruin of a chapel in this graveyard. This is a very old graveyard
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called Putland Bridge after him, and to the present day is called Putland Bridge on the Ordinance Maps. Some people say that the reason the Tower was built was to prevent "body-snatching" which was very prevalent in Ireland at the time. Fr. Horgan was responsible for the building of Whitechurch Round Tower but he died before it was completed. He was also responsible for the building of the bridge just outside Blarney on the Road to Cork known as "Horgan's Bridge" which was considered at the time a great piece of Engineering due to the fact that it was built in a bog. Fr. Horgan was born in the parish of Blarney and died in the year 1848.

race, for which the cup indicating first prize is still to be seen at Mr T. Carrolls of Cahirmee near here, is told by many in the neighbourhood. It appears according to the stories told locally that farmers raced their working horses against each other. In one such race there were twenty-five horses to race from Rathclare (near Buttevant) to Cork passing by Cahirmee, Mallow, Bottle Hill, and Whitechurch. At Mallow only twenty were counted while at Bottle Hill only ten were in the running. Yet strange to say nine finished the course with Mr Carroll (grandfather of the man mentioned above) declared winner and one Mr OConnor of Buttevant coming second. There were no prizes for any others. These "Cups" presented to the owners may still be viewed with the permission of the present owner. The writer has viewed them and to him was selected the above.