Mrs Maguire aged 80 Gubrawoolly Swanlinbar Co. Cavan told me that many years ago a vessel containing H Communion was dug up in Killaduff old church ruins in graveyard.

through the house.
The oldest person in Killaduff is Abraham Williams who is eighty- four years of age. When he was going to school he never learned Irish. The population has increased very much our family being the largest. About eighty years ago there was only one house in Killaduff, which was owned by relatives of the famous Billy Byrne of Ballymanus who was captured by the English and hanged in Wicklow Jail in the 1799. They were wealthy and used to hire women to herd the large flocks of geese they used to rear, and they used to employ eight men on the farm.
Gladys Roache,
Killaduff House,
Aughrim,
Co. Wicklow.

Composition
My Home DistrictMy name is Gladys Roache. I Live in the town-land of Killaduff, which is in the parish of Kilpipe. There are three families in Killaduff.
One house is nicely situated beside the pine forest, and contains eight bedrooms, bathroom hot and cold, heating press and a w.c. drawing and dining room, breakfast room and kitchen, large glass covered lounge.
Our house is two storey high. the walls are a foot and a half thick, and are brick and stone. The windows are very large being four feet by three and a half. We have a very large range, which heats the water

There are three graveyards in the parish of Kinawley in the Barony of Tullyhaw County of Cavan. One is situated in the townland of Killaduff about 3/4 of a mile outside the village of Swanlinbar. Another is beside the church in Kinawley, Co. Fermanagh and 4 miles from the village. The third is beside the Protestant Church in the village of Swanlinbar.All three are still in use.
Killaduff is the oldest. There are the ruins of an old church there which was in use in the Penal Days. There are three old vaults in the graveyard-two belong to the McGovern family and one to the McBrien family. On some of the old slabs the dates are almost illegible. There is one bearing the date 1700.
It belongs to the McBrien family. There are graves inside the ruins of the old church there.

Owen McGovern was coming home late from a dance and he must have walked on the Fóidín marry for he could not make his way as far as a ditch but walked and walked away till he was ready to drop. He couldnt get home, nor could he know where he was.
He be thought himself of turning his coat as down he sat, took off his coat, pulled it inside out, and put it on. When he came to himself, where would he be sitting only on a tombstone in Killaduff graveyard.

TownlandsGlanamanogue - in townland of Ballymanus, on Lynch's land - supposed to have been a village one time - remains of some of the walls.Killaduff - old Churchyard - cave down under Cave at Slievecoyle, near Askinagap bridge
Raheen - Coolballintaggart - Ballymanus - fence round it.

Gladys Roache,
Killaduff House,
Aughrim,
Co. Wicklow

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being made Ballyconnell Bridge in Ballyconnell town was also built as they only had a ford to cross by before that. The old road that was in use before the new one is still to be had and is now called the "Grassy lane". It went from Derryginny in a straight line across all hills about a quarter of a mile on the mountain side of the new road. Some parts of it are made by the county yet, other parts of it are walled across and have grass growing on them but it can still be traced to Killaduff graveyard where there are the remains of an old church. The road continues until it turns for the left at the long bridge into Swanlinbar.

This Chapel of Cill Dubh or Cillduff as it is called was built in one night. It was in a very out of the way place so that the hunted priests could live in it betimes and say mass in it too. It had iron doors and iron windows, for there were iron mills in Swanlinbar in those days, and iron was cheap and very plentiful. The old name of Swanlinbar was "An Muileann Iarainn" There were so many men at the building of the church that when the last was leaving Killaduff the first man was at Kinawley five miles away. The first man at Kinawley left a good stone hammer behind him at the church. He sent back word from one to another the same way as Dan O'Connell alarmed all Ireland with the straws in one night. All stood still till it was handed down to the man at Kinawley.
The priest, for some personal motive of revenge left this chapel, and got a little chapel built along the road where Pat Frank (McGoldrick) lived a few years ago. Later the priest got a grand new chapel built in Swanlinbar when the good times came for them

and said. 'Our pikes are as sharp as
ever. Line us up to have one charge
at the Durham Fencibles of Killaduff,
in satisfaction for blowing up poor
Father Murphy.

A Strange Adventure.A few years (days) ago I heard a man named John Fleming telling the following.
He had been to a meeting in a house near Aughrim and when the meeting was over he started for home, cycling. All went well until he came to Ballymanus. There instead of keeping straight on, he turned to the left, crossed Ballymanus Bridge, turned left again and continued on up by Ms. Lynche's, left again along the road to Killaduff, down Redna, left again on his own road until he passed the house from which he had started, having completed a circle of at least 4 miles, and all as if he could not help himself. But he was not yet finished, he found himself doing the journey again and again, cycling always, and with no power to keep on his own road when he came to the turn at Ballymanus.
Next morning he came to and found himself lying exhausted in an outhouse near Ballymanus Corssroads.

in melted lard and put aside in an iron mould to cool. Special candle sticks made of iron called sconces some holding 2 and others 3 candles were used and some are still to be seen in farmers' houses.
This information was given by Mrs Maguire aged 80 farmer's widow, Gubrawoolly, Swanlinbar Co. Cavan.Rope-making. Ropes or sugars made of twisted hay are used for tying corn stacks and ricks of hay in this district.Lime-burning. Lime is burned in a kiln in the townland of Killaduff near the village of Swanlinbar Co. Cavan Culm brought from Arigna coal mine Co. Leitrim is used to burn the limestone. The stones are dug out of a quarry and broken fine.
Buckets of limestone and buckets of culm are emptied alternately into the kiln until it is full. A fire is lighted underneath and left until it burns itself out.

A man called Bernard McGovern Killaduff Swanlinbar Co Cavan dreamt that he saw a pot of gold buried at Terence Maguire's spa. He never told anyone until after three nights. Then he told his wife and she would not consent to his ging for it. One morning early he set off himself. He dreamt that another woman had the same dream and that he should go to her. He went to her and she said ''You and I had a great dream about gold last night.'' He said he never dreamt of such a thing. He went straight t the place and he saw a snake sitting on a branch with his tail in his mouth and he was spinning round like a top.
He turned home and when he looked back he saw nothing. That was the spirit that was guarding the gold which it is said was left by the Danes.Many years ago now there was a public house in Cornalon Swanlinbar Co Cavan and boys of the district used to come into it at night to play cards. One night a stranger dressed in black with a hard hat came in. He bought drink for all around and played cards. Everyone won plenty of money. They had hens and a rooster on a loft overhead and when twelve o' clock came the

a fairy pass and went astray. After a long time walking about he sat down and turned his coat inside out. Then he found himself on a tombstone in Killaduff graveyard.
In the fort (c) a crock of gold is supposed to be hidden. It is guarded by a spirit and lights and shadows are said to be seen there. My informant was Mrs McGovern of the same townland aged 88.
Two stories are told in connection with the fort (d) The teller is Mrs Maguire aged 80 farmer's widow Gubrawoolly. Swanlinbar Co Cavan.
One day an old woman living near the fort heard the noise of a churn. She thought it was the fairies who had taken away her milk and churned it. She got very angry and ran away with a hatchet to kill them. She saw nothing. Next day she was churning. When she stooped to lift off the butter she fell into the churn and was drowned.
An man living near the fort

Local Sayingsi The butter is coming through the stir(r)about.
ii Eating the big one with the little one (a potato and a bit of salt.)
iii What's in the cat will be in the k(n)itten.
iiii A Seasonal saying :- On Little Christmas Day (January 6th) the day is a cock's step longer on a dunghill
v Of the sick :- March will search, April will try
And May will tell whether you live or die.
vi During a thunder storm :- The Sign of the Cross is made and someone says "There(s) goes the artillery of the Almighty.
Gladys Roache,
Killaduff House,
Aughrim,
Co. Wicklow.

CLEGGANCloigheann - A skull shaped hill. There is a mass rock in the townland. A well called Tobar Ruadh - The well at the end of Lisnafana road is known as Tobar na Greabaigh or Tobar na Grabaigh. A wet field in Killaduff is called the "Grab" probably this is a root word.
DRUMDERG= Either Druim Dearg or Druim Deirc. The latter meaning the hill of the cave. A field is called Pairc a' Laighian(?) - towel shaped field. This is the meaning of second half of Aghalion - the adjoining townland. Another field is known as "The Garrytoole" = Garrdha Uí Thuathail - O'Tooles garden.
DRUMINADruim Manaigh or Druim Mame. Between Drumina and Tanagh is a deep Ált. A field called "Tar Feicin" Feicin's Bush although less than a mile away we find the name in a different form Crossafehin.
DRUMGORA= Drum Gabhra - Field names - The Grúchán little Greagh or moor. Páirc na gCearc. The Upper or Eastern end of this townland is called Cushena "Cois an Áth". A battle was fought here still spoken of as the "Battle of Cushena". A depression in a field here looks not unlike a trench made to hold up an army. A spot on the top of Cnóchan Ruadh was not tilled until lately. Possibly some of the victims of the batle were burried here.
CORNASLIEVE= Cor na Sliabh usually. As the main-road ran through this townland it is possibly Cor na Slighe. The eastern part of the townland was called

On the farm of Joseph Browne, Aughaloughan, Ballyjamesduff, the following are the names of the Fields:-1) The field before the door (Field faces the back door of dwelling-house)
2) The black field
3) The Rock field (Rock in Field)
4) The Lime Kiln field. (Lime kiln in field long ago)
5) The Upper field
6) The far bottom
7) The low meadow
8) The Gawl-lah field (triangular-shaped field, the soil of which is heavy)
9) The Low Garden. (Had been a garden filled with fruit trees about 80 years ago, but because of the ravages of the local young boys during the fruit season, the bachelor owner, Mr. F. Mulligan, cut down the whole orchard.)
10) The Four-acre field (4 acres)
Mr John McGivena, Killaduff, Virginia, Barony Casterahan, has field on his farm locally called "the Gub". The field adjoins the Broad Road.