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  1. A Story of Buried Treasure

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    In almost every townland in Ireland there is some treasure to be hidden. In the Monument field there is gold supposed to be hidden. Several attempts have been made to dig it up.
    It is said that it was put there for safety by one of the Lords of Lixnaw. About fifty years ago some men went to dig it up and a black bull came out of the Monument and followed them. This treasure is worth a good deal of money. The people do not know the exact spot where it is hidden.
    Simon Heffernan,
    Ballintoher,
    Lixnaw,
    Co. Kerry
    Material got from:
    John McAuliffe,
    Ballintoher,
    Lixnaw,
    Co. Kerry

  2. Gold in Lixnaw

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    Gold in Lixnaw
    There is a monument about half a mile east of Lixnaw it was erected over an Earl about six hundred years ago. The monument is built on top of a limestone hill, it is a circular building three storeys high; the walls are seven feet thick. There is also a circular wall about twenty feet high surrounding the monument, about twenty five feet out.
    The earl was buried in the lower chamber of the monument. The door was a flag about six feet square and his coffin was placed up on a thick flag supported by four cut limestone blocks.
    It was always said there was gold under the stones where the coffin was. Several courageous men attempted to dig for the gold but were always frightened away until about two years ago two men went by night to dig for the gold. Their names were Johnny

  3. A Story

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    A man named Patrick Cullen who lived in Lixnaw lived to be a very old man. He had three sons Pat, Tom and Mick. The old man had a habit of walking about the fields. The old man got sick and asked for the

  4. Story

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    A man from Lixnaw came into a house in Larha one day. They were just making the churn and the man never helped at the work. After a while he went away again. Six hours they were at the churning and they couldn't make it. They then ran after the man and he came back. As soon as he took a greas of the churn the butter was made.

  5. Local Heroes - Shown Burns

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    straight to the mout of the kiln with the car and filled his load. The onlookers did not him and were very surprised and ashamed when they learned who he was. To make up for their mistake they immedliatly sent to Lixnaw for two gallons of Guiness.

  6. Hedge-Schools

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    There was a hedge school in Tullig, Kilflynn, Lixnaw. It was taught by a man named Richard O'Callaghan. He used to slap the boys with a big walking stick. He had only a few boys so he retired and became a land surveyor which was a better job in that time.

  7. Hedge-Schools

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    My grandmother aged nearly 70 of Greenville Listowel told me that her mother name Johanna Leinhen told her that there was an old hedge-school near Lixnaw. The teacher's name was Mick Stack. The scholars had to be to school for ten o'clock and would be let off at half past three in the evening. The school used be held in Brosnan's

  8. (gan teideal)

    “Long ago there was a family living near Lixnaw.”

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    Long ago there was a family living near Lixnaw. This family had a servant girl and each night the servant girl got up at a certain time of the night. At first they did not notice her getting up but when she was getting up each night the Mistress said to her "What is the reason of you getting up every night, but she could not tell her each night she got up. Next night she would wait up until all the family was asleep or she taught and then

  9. (gan teideal)

    “Paddy Shanahan was coming home from Lixnaw with a horse and car as he passed a fort his horse stopped and would not go for him.”

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    Paddy Shanahan was coming home from Lixnaw with a horse and car as he passed a fort his horse stopped and would not go for him. He wore the stick he had on him and he would not go. He went into an old woman's house and asked her for a stick and she gave him her walking stick. He wore it on the horse and he did not go then he sat down on the car to take a rest and while he was resting the horse walked away home.

  10. Heroes

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    At another time a man was coming from Lixnaw kilns with a load of lime. In coming up a hill near Listowel his horse got stuck in the dyke. It happened that Seon Burns passed by and seeing the car stuck took off his coat and pulled the load which the horse had refused to draw. There are only a few of the many stories which are told about him.

  11. Another Story about Seon Burns

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    One day Seon went to Lixnaw for lime. He took three horses with him. When he arrived there were cars before him a mile in length. He did not want to wait so he unharnessed the horse took the car on his shoulders to the kiln a mile distant, got it filled with lime shouldered it and same back through the crowd and put the horse to the load. He did the same with the other two and was home long before the others and fresher than any of them.

  12. An Old Story

    “At one time a man by the name of John Healy was putting in panes of glass in the Lixnaw Convent....”

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    At one time a man by the name of John Healy was putting in panes of glass in the Lixnaw Convent and every day when he would go to the dinner he would get a glass of whiskey. One day when the Reverend Mother was giving John the whiskey she said "every time you drink a glass of whiskey you put a nail in your coffin" well said John "as you have the hammer in your hand drive another one". This story was told to me by my father.

  13. Local Ruins

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    father that she never saw a man being hanged. He said that he would soon gratify her wish and he did so. A man was in his way to Lixnaw and when he was passing the castle the soldiers of this cruel lord caught him and hanged him in presence of the girl.

  14. The Local Roads

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    The road leaving from Listowel is going to Tralee and to Lixnaw. There is a road in Kellerhers land it is not being used for years. There is a mud fence across the river at "Praty" about five feet wide. This served as a crossing place in days gone by.

  15. Local Roads

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    Long ago the road that was leading to Finuge was gone to Ballyhorgan to Listowel to Drompluck to Lixnaw. Long ago there was a bridge between Ennismore and Finuge. They used to cross the water gone to the Creamery. Before the Finuge bridge was built they used cross the ford near Finuge. Finuge bridge was built in the year 1907.

  16. (gan teideal)

    “A certain farmer in Lixnaw had no luck with butter.”

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    " A certain farmer in the Lixnaw parish had no luck with butter. No matter what he and his wife did their efforts were in vain - froth was the result instead of butter.
    He told the P.P. of Lixnaw about it. The priest came to say Mass. He told the farmer to bring in the hair spancel (made of the hair of the tail of a cow), and to hang it on the crane while Mass was in progress.
    At a certain part of the Mass the priest came over and read over the spancel, and for a long time. When he was finished the spancel bounded up the chimney roaring like thunder,
    The butter was successful after that."

  17. Bog-Deal Splinters

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    Mrs Costello of Ballyhorgan, Lixnaw, remembers seeing splinters used in her old home in Tullig, Lixnaw. (Lynch).
    The splinters were cut from a very dry well-seasoned piece of bog-deal. They were long, and as thick as man's finger. They were very straight. Several splinters were lighted at night and placed in holes in the hob. The holes were sometimes made by scraping the mortar between two stones with a nail. The splinters stood out horizontally whilst burning. The women sat round the splinters and knitted or mended clothes. They gave beautiful light and were full of resin.
    It was a custom too, with the young boys to go 'torching' for birds during the wild winter nights. They carried several splinters with them to give them light to see the birds. Before the splinters burned out, they relighted others from them.
    It was the custom too, for one member of the family to hold the lighted splinter near the table while the others ate their supper. The person who held the splinter kept it 'snuffed' with another one.

  18. Hidden Treasures

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    In the Monument not far from Lixnaw, there is a big flag near the door and for several generations there was a tradition that a box of diamonds were hidden there and that they belonged to one of the ladies who lived in the "Old Court" about 1643. One young man who had the name of being very courageous laid a wager that he would get the treasure

  19. Forts - Kiltomey Fort

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    About a mile from the village of Lixnaw in a district called Kiltomey is situated another fort. It is in a farm owned by Dr. Hannan. It is round in shape and is supposed to be haunted by the fairies or "good people". In the middle of the fort there is a square room with steps leading down to it but it is covered up for the last ten years.

  20. Hidden Treasures

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    There is also a treasure in the shape of a pot of gold hidden somewhere near St. Michael's Well in Ballinageragh. Tradition has it that the Friars who had a Monastery there melted down the Sacred Vessels in order to save them from the Danes who are supposed to have plundered Ratto Abbey not far from Lixnaw toward the end of the 9th century.