A man named Pat Whelan who lived in Dunmore used to walk to Killea, very late in the night to play cards. On his way home he used to go through the old grave-yard for a short cut. A certain man thought he would play a joke on him and frighten him one night. This night he stood behind a tombstone and waited there for Pat to come.Now Pat was very brave and did not believe in ghosts. He came through the grave-yard very late and stood when he saw the man with the white sheet on him. Then Pat said, "Is there only one of you here tonight, there were two here last night." The supposed ghost ran away with fright, and did not try his tricks on him again.

People say there is a crock of gold hidden in the Fairy Lios about half-a mile from Faithlegg Chapel. This lios is opposite Mooney's grove in the townland of Faithlegg in the Parish of Killea and Dunmore in the Barony of Gultier in the County of Waterford. It is situated on Mr Delahunty's farm.
The Lios is made up of furze bushes, ferns, hawthorn and sallies. It is criss-crossed in the centre with paths.
There is a story attached to this Lios about a man whose name was Mooney. One night Mooney was drunk, and when he was going home he fell in the ditch

There was one hedge school in my mothers district. It was a house situated in Carrowen. I do knot know the name of the teacher. There were no blackboard used.
They used pencils, pens and slates in my father's school and in my mother's school. My father's school was situated in Killea and my mothers was situated in Carrowen. The teachers that taught my father were Mr. and Mrs. McGlonegal. The books they used were:- an arithmetic, a history, an Irish reader, an English reader, a jotter and a geography.

In our country's story many pages have been decorated with the deeds of the kings of Aileach. In recent years another chapter has been added to the country's story by the O'Dohertys. The activities of these men was confined mostly to the field of battle but others have carried laurels from the field of play.
In Killea sports about five years ago there was a certain man who lifted eight stones and a half in one hand and lifted it above his head. He had four opponents but none were equal to him. The second best to him lifted eight stones. There are men in this district who can lift twelve stones four feet high.
There is a man in this district who won many trophies at running

his preserves. This was a great source of chagrin to 'Carden' who ordered his gamekeepers to leave nothing undone to catch them.
There was one poacher in particular who selected that part of the hill around the graveyard in Killea for the pursuit of his endeavours. On one occasion he was almost caught, so he now made a plan[?] to get rid of the gamekeeper. He went overnight to the graveyard and waited there the approache of the gamekeeper whom he knew was bound to come
Soon he saw him approach, and when he came near enough to the graveyard to see him, out he walked in his stark nakedness towards the frightened keeper, who took to his heels and never again dared set foot in the dark on that part of the hill, where the poacher enjoyed ever after the practice of his wiles.There is also the story of another ghost on the "Bit" itself between the big rock and little rock. This ghost takes the form of a foal, who neighs like an old

labouring man, who it is said was murdered, was the first man to be buried in Ileigh. Families from Kilcommon to Killea are buried in these graveyards.
Unbaptised people and those who died with the Cholera were buried in Hogan's sandpit in the townsland of Fantane.
Information got from Mr. P. Mahon.
Upper St.
Borrisoleigh.

The First Carden
Patrick Egan used hear the old men telling these stories when he was a young boy fifty and sixty years ago.
Written into this book, Jan. 1937.When Cromwell came to Ireland he had a miller named Carden. When he had beaten the Irish he paid his soldiers with the land he took from the Irish. At that time there was a gentleman living in Killea, his name was Carroll. Carroll was hunted and Cromwell gave all Carroll's land to Carden. That was the first Carden to come to this place.
Carroll had a castle near Barnane. Carden had that castle pulled down and he built one for himself

Carroll's Castle
I heard my father and a lot of other old men talking one night about cut stones that Pat Halloran of Killawardy had found when they were making a fence near Halloran's house.
My father said that a man named Carroll had a castle there in bygone days. The castle was downed and these were the stones that the Hallorans dug up.
Michael Egan, Park, Killea, aged 60 years.I always heard the old people saying there is a gold serpent buried in the Hill of Grange.

The Soldier's Grave
On the west side of Killea there is a cul-de-sac. This road leads to the bog road. The bog road is in bad repair, having a bad surface and it runs up-hill . After travelling for about half a mile along the bog road one sees a mound of stones about two yards in from the righthand side of the road.
The mound is oval shaped and it is the custom for everyone who passes to throw a stone on it. The side of the mound nearest the field is highest, because users of the bog road take stones from the heap and put them on the road.
It is said that the name of the soldier buried in that grave is Bladhm and it is from that man the mountain got the name Sliabh Bladhma.

as he had no friends and for some years he was in poverty.
Evidently someone interceded for him, and he was appointed parson at Killea. He lived then at Kilduff somewhere near where Pat Maher now lives and he tried to grow hops to make beer.
He lay dying and only a nurse was allowed to visit him. One day towards the end a stranger called but was told he could not see the patient. The stranger produced an old battered snuff box and asked that it be shown to the dying man. He was soon admitted and taken to the sick room.
He remained quite a long time in the room and when leaving told the servant not to disturb her master as he was sleeping quietly.
Later on when the servant went into the room she found the parson dead, but laid out in priest's vestments with a chalice laid on his breast.

dozens of lighter briars or osiers closely through these lighter rods, and the handles also made of twisted briar were fixed on either side. The fixing of the handles required great care otherwise the basket would not be properly balanced when full. These were all old basket-makers Bill Greed The Bog Cross Clonakenny, Martin Delahunty The Orkneys Clonakenny. Dan Doyle Gurtnadumma. Denis Morkan Summerhill Pat Treacy Shragh. James Gleeson Shanacloch and the following people still make round baskets in the district: Tim Doyle Honeymount. Billy Treacy Gurteen. Pat Maher Clonakenny. John Morris Dangan.
A local tradition as regards basket-making is this, no basket should be made in any month which has not an "R" in it.
The men who do the thatching in the district at present are Tom Foye Kilough. John Morkan Summerhill. Tom Burke Rathnavoggue. and Bill Tuohy Killea. Oaten straw is used for thatching; but in old times when corn used be all threshed with the flail wheaten straw only used be made use of. The thatcher

IV Verse
Arise you men of Barnane and hasten to the fray
Attend you noble countrymen we have them in Killea,
Led on by those brave mountaineers, we will make the valleys' strain
We will hunt and shoot and reap the fruit,
On Carden's wild domain."

An event which occured at Adamstown, Templemore.Adamstown was the H.Q. for the yeomen during the Cromwellian period; there was a hospital there. A priest named Father Fant of Templemore was going to the hospital one Sunday morning to attend a dying man - or he was on his way to Killea on a sick call as to say ?? He was followed by the yeomen. He stopped at Liemen's river to give his horse a drink. The yeomen passed him by and none of them saw him except the Officer, whose name was Campbell. The officer called to him and asked him why his men did not see him. The priest said to him -"You would not have seen me either, only you are baptised." The soldier allowed the priest to do his duty. Some time later he was at home on holidays and learned from the old family nurse that she had him baptised "secretly", when he was a baby.His parents were protestants. He had been brought up a Protestant, but now he renounced Protestantism, became a good Catholic and gave up priest hunting.
This is an error (1) No yeomen at this period (11) Fr. Fant lived in Templemore at a much later period. His remains are in a little churchyard near school play ground.

Coxtown is my native townland. It is in the Parish of Killea and in the Barony of Gaultier.
Roughly speaking there are about twenty two families in Coxtown nineteen in Coxtown East and three in Coxtown West. There are approximately sixty five people livingin Coxtown. It is very thinly populated for such a large townland.
Power is the name most common in the townland which is sometimes spoken of in jest as Powerstown.
The houses are mostly all slated and are built on a modern style. Some of the new red cottages are to be found while some thatched houses may still be seen in the neighbourhood.
The origin of the name Coxtown is very interesting. One night a vessel called into Portally Cove and while there the Captain who was on deck saw a ball of fire appear in the sky and seem to descend on a little thatched cottage. Just then the cock belonging to the house crew and the ball disappeared. The same thing happened the second

would go with him the next night to answer the Mass. The next night they went to Killea Church and just at twelve o'clock the priest came out on the altar and John Glody answered the Mass. When John Glody looked around, the church was crowded with people. When Mass was ended the priest told Glody that the other priest was saved. A few weeks later John Glody died.Michael Daley
Story got from
Mrs. Elizabeth Leahy (about 70 years)
Crooke Road,
Passage East.

the well.Local Happenings.
(1) In the district of Killea there is a very old graveyard in which there are very few tombs. There still remains the ruins of what was once the Church. One evening an angel was seen praying at a grave in the cemetery. The person who saw the angel fired a shot from(e) some place and it struck the angel who then flew suddenly away into the surrounding cliffs. It left the impression of its two knees in the sod where it had knelt.Abvout a year afterwards men were were working with picks and shovels in the cliffs when suddenly they saw the image of the angel with the blood streaming from its breast. Every Summer crowds go out in boats in the hope of seeing the angel with the bleeding breast.(2) In the district if Kill St. Nicholas a man was building a ditch one day. While working he found a great many cups, saucers, plates, dishes and forks. (They) He was so delighted that he brought them home to amuse his children. In the middle of the night a fairy woke the man from his sleep and warned him to give back all that he had found. But the man refused and went to

he takes a glance.
Saying I will bring the enemy to Billies for a dance,
On his way to Siltin he spied one of Carson's men.
He spied one time a creel and another time a can.
"Anna damn-it Soul" says Cormick "that is the ould Black Man"
IV The Silton Crae looks Connie at a mile or two away
You would think it was Skreeny when walking to Killea.
each for Fowley and for Clancy, they are always looking for news.
"Sure Damn-it Soul" says Cormick "they are not worth my ould shoes"
You will never see them at a dance, a fair or ina fight
And they are toiling up in Siltin from morning until night.

There were four Landlords in Killea.
Butlers lived in Park. They were good landlords.
Lloyd lived in Lloydsboro. Evidently a bad lot.
Going had a cottage in Kilduff.
Another Lloyd lived in Skehanna.The whole district seems to have been planted again and again. I am not prepared to write anything I am told as I am afraid of repercussions as all stories seek to refer in some way or another to present inhabitants.
e.g. Paul Higgins brought a gardener named -- to grow hops for him. That is how we have all the so and so's in the parish
The Egans from whom I have got most stories seem to be the third generation.

We'll plant our homesteads once again
On Carden's Wild Domain. 7
With cap and feather trimmed with green,
We'll march in grand array,
Three cheers we'll give for every man,
That comes from sweet Killea.
The cruel Orange Saxon brood,
We'll chase across the plain,
Their scarlet flag we'll tear to rags
In Carden's Wild Domain.

and it is said after the ninth morning the wart wold disappear.Goats milk mixed with soap and sugar was considered a great remedy for any forms of sores, as the goat is supposed to eat more herbs than any other animal.To cure a wart get the juice out of stem of the dandelion and put it on the wart and it will soon disappear.To get rid of rheumatism put a potato in your pocket and let it wither, according as the potato withers the rheumatism will wear away.Soap and sugar is a cure for boils.A good thing to cure any kind of sores is to get a dog to lick them, as there is a cure in the dog's tongue.An Aunt of mine- -Mrs Margaret Meade, The Cottage, Halfway House, Waterford had a charm for stopping a bleeding. It was a certain form of words which she repeated. There was a difference between words said to stop bleeding in a human being and those said to stop bleeding in an animal. She used this charm exclusively and it always successful. There is an old man still living in this locality Pierce Meade, Kilcullen, Waterford (age 99 years now) who had a horse which was bleeding to death. He went to her to use the charm. She did so and the horse was cured when he went home. Rev Fr Lennon, Killea, Waterford prevailed upon her to give us using the charm. She did so. The charm could only be transmitted from a woman to a man or vice versa. She intended passing on the charm to her brother before she did, but as she had ceased using it for years the matter was forgotten and the chard died with her.