I live in the townland of Gurtrush. Gurtrush is in the parish of Ballintemple. Both are in the barony of Kilnamanagh Lower. It begins at the village cross. There are about 16 houses. The land is hilly, and dry. There is no lake or river in it but there is a very big wood. The houses are mostly slated. The name most common is Ryan. Gurtrush means the red field because the soil is red.

In the locality surrounding Moneygall there are in all nine grave yards. Of these all are still in use and a burial can be remembered to take place in all of them. They are all made in a square except one or two such as Finglas, Rathnavogue, or Ballycormack. They are all well kept and looked after. They are nicely laid out with gravel paths and borders and in most of them there are 'holly oaks' or yew trees. Templeharry in the townland of that name is probably the chief one in the district. Others are Ballycormack and Aghnameadle in the townland of Ballycormack. Cullenwaine in that townland; Rathnovogue; Finglas and Dunkerrin in the townlandof Dunkerrin; Ballintemple and Castletown in the townlands of their own names

James Dwyer Grangford, Parish of Rathoe was the greatest Wrestler of his time. He was powerfully built. Sir Thomas Butler Bart Ballintemple House Tullow asked James Dwyer in the year 1850 to accept a challenge from a champion wrestler in the British Army Dwyer agreed to meet him. The wrestling took place in the Pheonix Park, Dublin before a large crowd. His opponent on seeing him was losing grew angry and kicked him Dwyer flung him to the ground in a crook and broke his leg. The followers of the Englishman lost large sums of money and were about to attack Dwyer, but

The first motor car to be seen in the district was owned by Bishop Plunkett who was married to one of the Butlers landlords of Ballintemple. It was in the year 1901. People working in the fields would run to the roadside to see it passing just as they did some years ago when aeroplanes first appeared.Sir Standish O'Grady Roche was the second man to own a motor car in this district.

Ballintemple from the parish of Kilmore.The soil is hilly and rough and there is a fort in the middle of this townland which is known as "Drumlion Fort".

Continued
There was never a light seen there.
This story was told to me by y mother.
Mrs Elizabeth Cowan,
Aughawelia,
Ballintemple Parish
Ballinagh,
Co. CavanWritten by Olive Cowan,
Ballintemple N.S.,
Ballinagh,
Co. Cavan.

A Funny Story
13-12-'37
Once upon a time Irish Paddy was in America and he was walking along one of the houses he saw a girl looking out of a window. The girl said "Good morning Paddy" and he said "These are great houses" "not at tall says the girl "These are only stables and Paddy said I was just thinking that when I saw an ass looking out of the window.
This story was (was) told to me by my bother
Thomas Cowan,
Aughawelia,
Ballintemple,
Ballinagh,
Co. Cavan.
Written by Olive Cowan
Ballintemple N.S.,

There was a man in the townland of Aughawelia, Parish of Ballintemple the name of Edward Reilly he used to stay out late at night.
Every night he used to see little men with Red Jackets and they would say to him. "Getting home Edward" he used to call them "Gankonars".

Hidden Treasure
1-11-'37
Some fifty years ago it was popular belief that there was a canister of gold coins hidden in a ditch on our neighbour's farm. So popular was the belief that Mr Forster the occupant at that time had taken the ditch away but failed to succeed in his efforts, no lights have ever been seen about the treasure.
This story has been to me by my Uncle who witnessed the uprooting of the ditch.
William Henry Graham,
Dillagh,
Ballinagh.
Ballintemple Parish
Co. Cavan.Written by Bill Graham
Ballintemple N.S.,
Ballinagh.
Co. Cavan.

Hidden Treasure
3-12-'37
About eighty years ago it was believed in the district of Carrigan, that a parringer of gold hidden in James McCabes garden, now James, having heard this tried to unearth it, but failed to succeed in his efforts. No lights have ever been seen about the treasure, the man's name who hid it is unknown.
This story has been told to me by,
Mr Ned McCabe
Carrigan,
Ballintemple Parish.
Ballinagh,
Co. Cavan.
Written by Bill Graham
Ballintemple N.S.,
Ballinagh.
Co. Cavan.

Funny Story
Once upon a time there lived two men in a certain parish, and one of them was the biggest coward in the parish he lived in, and the other man was a great soldier, he was giving the coward twenty pounds if he would go in to the Church in the dark and drive a nail in the Comunion Table and this the coward volunteered to do. He went into the Church and he brought a hammer and a nail with him and he had a big overcoat on him and when he went to drive the nail he caught the tail of his coat in the nail and he did'nt know it, and he nailed his coat to the table. When he went to walk away he dragged the table with him and when he found a pull on the coat he thought that the devil had hold on him, and he slung back his arms with fright and his coat fell off him and he ran away for his life.
This story was told to me by
Alexander Bredin,
Corduff,
Ballintemple, Parish,
Ballinagh,
Co. Cavan.
Written by Frank Jackson,
Ballintemple, N.S.,
Ballinagh,
Co. Cavan

A Funny Story
3-12-'37
One time there was a man who was a doctor, who for the first time went to see a sick patient. When he came to see a sick woman he looked at her tongue and took her pulse, but he could find nothing wrong with her. He then sent for an older doctor, the older doctor looked at her took, took her pulse, and told her she after eating Oysters and never to eat them again. Three days after the old doctor and the young doctor met, the young doctor asked the old doctor how did he know that the woman ate oysters. "Oh" said the old doctor, "I saw the shells under her bed".
After a few days the young doctor got another call, it was a man that was sick this time. When he came into the room where the sick man was, he looked under his bed and he saw a saddle and a bridle. "Oh" he said "you are after eating a horse or an ass."
This story was told to me by my sister
Jennie Kilroy,
Dillagh,
Ballinagh,
Ballintemple,
Co. Cavan.
Written by Eileen Kilroy,
Ballintemple, N.S.,

by the Donnelly family and it is in this man's land the remains of "The Palace" is situated. The family has now died out and the land is in the possession of a man named "Michael Hunt on the hill or so he is nicknamed "Mike Luck" his father was so grand after coming from America that he was called "boye"? to distinguish him from others of the same name. All this refers to the times preceding the Great famine.
As I have mentioned the Holy Water Stoup in Cloonfinlough Graveyard it may be as well to tell all I know about it now. I have heard it dates from the Thirteenth Century and the remains of an old Church are still there consisting of the South Sidewall & part of the Western door. There would be more of it standing but the Northern Sidewall & Eastern endwall were taken down by the Priests & people to build a surrounding wall around the Graveyard as there was nothing to prevent pigs, cattle etc to enter it. It is circular in shape & seemed to be built in a Rath or Lios - there is a Crannog in the lake opposite it from which lots of bones were dug up & sold. There is a Holy [Water]? stone on a level with the foundation & forming part of it at the [Eastern]? door which was Gothic in shape - The district around is still called Ballintemple & pronounced by the old people “Ballintampel”. The Holy Water Stoup which never runs dry is in the middle of the

to pull a horse out of a drain into which it had fallen. Mick told them to cease their efforts and catching hold of the animal by the mane and tail pulled it out singlehanded.
Note: These tales about Big Mick Pierse were related to me by an old man many years ago and were given as quite authentic.There was born at Ballintemple about a mile to the east of Lixnaw village a child who was named John Burns, afterwards known as Shawn Burns. This would be about the year 1800. He grew up to be a man of great strength. He was only about average height, but very stout and firmly built. He was regarded in his time as the strongest man in North Kerry. Several stories are related about him. He called to the neighbouring forge one day to have his horse shod. The smith made the shoe and was about to put it on the horse when Shawn looking at it saw that it was a very badly made

The field bounding this is called the ash field so called, there are alot of ash tree's surrounding it. The furze kill is the field out side this because it is covered with furze. The barley garden is bounding this one. The field outside this one is called the Plantation so called because there is alot of trees growing there. The names of other fields in this farm are Carroll's haggards. The big lawn, The little lawn, The black Nursery, The far off field, The well field, The sand pit field. The pond field, The Ballintemple field, Th fort field Teh Bull paddock, and the Rookery.
The names of the streams are : the Drehideen or the eye of the bridge, and the

In 1838 Austin Cooper, Kilmore, and Francis Wayland, Ballywalter , Knockavilla both land agents were proceeding to the fair in Tipperary. They were accompanied by Sam Cooper, a brother of the former. Austin Cooper was the land agent for Erasmus Smith and he had just evicted several tenants and Mr. Wayland had evicted one. The three were heavily armed.
At a sharp bend of the road in the townsland of Ballintemple near John Barron's cottage they were attacked by a number of armed men. Austin Cooper and Mr. Wayland were killed and Sam Cooper escaped. Two men named William Walsh and Con Hickey were afterwards tried for the crime. They were sentenced to death. Walsh contrived somehow to escape and fled to America, while Hickey was hanged.

Ballintemple: This is the name both of a large town land and Parish in the barony of Kilnamanagh Lower. It gets its name from the church which stood in the middle of the old graveyard. This is still the burying place of most of the families in the parish. About 100 years ago Earl de Montalt built the present church beside the village of Dundrum where it now stands As he took the stones of the old church to build it no trace of it now remains.
Kilpatrick is the name of a townland and Electors Division in Kilnamanagh Lower, Co. Tipperary and it contains a very old graveyard and ruins of an

Once a man was going to look for his cows. He went along the road but couldn't find them. Then he went into Mr. Robert Graves' field in Ballintemple where the fort is. He looked all round but couldn't mind the cows so he decided that he would stay there till morning.
At midnight he saw heaps of fairies dancing round.
When they saw him they stopped for a while. He went near to them and again they commenced dancing. At the first peep of day they all went away.

The Marl Bog Wood is situated near the Dundrum School in the townland of Garryduff West, parish of Ballintemple. It is so called because its soil is soft and rich. In the centre of this wood is a large boggy lake locally known as the duck - pond, because of the number of wild ducks that are to be found there.
To get to the far side of the pond you go along a path leading from the road past the nursery. After walking about three - quarters of a mile you come to the edge of the lake. The island can then be seen only a few yards from the bank. The only means of getting across is to put some long logs of timber into the shallow water and walk across those balancing yourself with poles.
Around the island are two rings or banks of clay. Growing on it are very old yew and pine trees. There are wild ducks', pigeons' and pheasants' nests on it. Hundreds of years ago people were supposed to be living on this island, but there is no trace of

There is a holy well in Mr. Ryan's field the town land of Muck, parish of Ballintemple, Barony of Kilnamanagh Lower, Co Tip.
It is very deep and about three feet broad, and there is a stream running out of it. It is said that if you got into it you would never get out. There is a bush growing over it, Mr. Ryan tried to fill it in but he failed After putting in several loads of stones he gave it up for the spring was too strong.
There is an old story told about a fish, a big pike, which was supposed to live in the well. The land then belonged to a Mr Scully from whom Mr Ryan bought it. Mr Scully tried to catch the fish, but he failed the first time. He tried the second time but he caught him. The fish was so old that he said you could be boiling him