Corbally Bush a whitethorn. Tradition has it that any one who cuts a limb will die within a year. Site for Baal fires in pagan time a corresponding bush in Buttevant & Labbycally one can be seen from the other
The wren the wren the King of all birds. St Stephens day, he was caught in the furze.
From bush to bush, from tree to tree.
On Corbally Bush he fell and broke his knee. The leagán from which Ballylegan gets its name stands about eight feet high and can be seen from every road, seems to be in a line from Corbally Bush.
In Mrs Foley's land in Labbycally is a whitethorn bush to which the hag comes to sit under in the Summer days. it is unlucky to interfere with it. "Glanworth "Arbour" misnamed Harbour
The old "Three Trees" grew where now stands the big pump. Written by Debbie Fitzgibbon John Sherlock wrote many songs of which "Glanworth Harbour" is the best known. From the title of the Song Glanworth is known far and wide as "The Harbour" His people who had a public house here got smashed up & so they had to emigrate about 1860. He died in 1888.

Old Schools
Many years ago, there was a hedge school situated on the side of the road between John Carney's and Frank Dowd's in the townland of Corbally, Elphin. The classes were not held out in the open air. The teacher had a little house situated under the hedge and there he taught his pupils.
Master Tracy taught in this school. He lived in the townland of Corbally. There were only simple lessons taught in there.
There were no seats for the children but when they wanted to sit down they just sat down on the floor, and when they were learning they all stood in a ring around the master.
Told by Cormac Meehan, Carramore, Croghan.

There is a long deep stream situated on my uncle's farm which is called "Poll a Chapall. Old folks such as Mr. John Kelly of Corbally say that many long years ago a man was ploughing near a stream on that same day a thick fog blanketed the countryside. On that same day a storm raged through the hills. Alas! the man and horses went astray in the fog and went headlong into the stream. All three were drowned and sigh nor light of them were never seen since. Ever since it was called "Poll a Chapall." People say that it is enchanted.
Not far from Mr. John Davis house in Corbally is situated a tree which is called "Crann Mór". Folks say that this tree was planted by my great-grandfather. It is the same now as it was sixty years ago.
On Mr. John Naughton's farm in Slieve there is a hill which is called "Lisheen". This field is so-called because there is a fort situated there. Many years ago on a

In Corbally Waterfall there are the ruins of an old graveyard. Long ago there was a monastery there but after the Battle of Kinsale the nuns who then occupied the place were hunted out. It was then converted into a graveyard. But it has not been now used with sixty years. One headstone, marking the grave of a person named O'Donovan, is dated 1792. Trees briars and undergrowth now make it difficult to identify the graves.

The Chapel field is in the townland of Knosknasuv in the parish of Blarney. Long ago the people of Blarney used to go to Mass there. There is no sign of the Chapel there now, but people say that the stones were used to build Sullivan's farmhouse in Corbally.

There is a field in Mr. FitzGibbon's farm, Corbally, Glanworth, known as "Páirc an Mhurdail". It is said that a man and his Son were working in the field one day. A dispute arose between them, which ended in a fight. The son hit the father with the spade and killed him. The field is called "Páirc an Mhurdail ever since.

There is a ditch in Mr. Fitzgibbon's farm in Corbally, Glanworth, Co. Cork, known as the Claidhe Dubh. This ditch is very wide and straight & a great many ash trees & other trees & shrubs grow on it. It runs from the direction of Co. Limerick towards the Nagles Mountains, beyond Ballyhooly. People don't wish to interfere in any way with this ditch.

is called the fort field. It is flat in the centre and outside this there is an earthen wall but is nearly flattened. Outside this again there is a very wide path which was ploughed some years ago and potatoes were grown in it and it is said that they were a very good crop. It is said that there is a road under ground from this fort to the one in Corbally and is crossing under the road at Leahy's cottage and when you walk over it an empty sound is heard.

There are several forts in this Parish. There is one in Ballyera and straight across from there is another one in Corbally which can be seen from it. It is in Mr Hegart's land and it is round in shape. The field which this fort is in

Long, long ago there lived in Corbally-Ban in the parish of Lisgoold a man who lived in a thached house. A boreen leads to that place, It is believed that he used take a red hankerchief out of his pocket and a hare used run away.

At one time the towland of Corbally was owned by the O'Sullivans. They sold the land afterwards to different people. Our farm is situated in Corbally about a league from the town of Killorglin. It is so called because of its many twists and turns.
Some of the fields in our farm have Irish names. The field which is nearest to the dwelling house is called 'pairc na gainmhidhe' or 'sandy field'.
"Páirc a Colacháin"
A field is situated below this again called 'Pairc a Leasa' or Fort Field.
'Pairc an aeurach' or airy field.

These graves are marked by large up right stones and can be seen on the High road leading from Derrycastle school to Corbally slate quarries. There was a battle there between Brian Boru & the Leinster king & his men. The Leinster men were beaten and are buried there at "Joe's gate" - the king as he was dying asked to be bured up on the hill where he could see his own province of Leinster, his request was granted & a large stone markes his grave. When Sarsfield was going from Limerick to Ballyneety to blow up William's siege train he passed by these graves.

is supposed to have been near the side of the old run in Powers field. Nearby is Rathmanage House where lived a Billy Ryan who evicted a number of people from Corbally and put the stones of their houses in ditched. He left Borris Church one Sunday when Father Grace was denouncing evictions.

map. There are no accounts given about this castle. There is an underground passage running from the castle to the graveyard at Corbally. It is in the townsland of Edmondstown the parish of Rathwire and the Barony of Farbil.

This hill is situated on the road at Corbally cross. It is said that Mr Flood who lived in the house at the cross long ago is seen at the hill at 1:30 every night.

subscriptions from the pupils. Up to the time of the famine the people of Capard, Corbally, and Lacken kept a school at the latter place. The teacher was a woman named Nancy Kane. Each pupil paid her a penny a week. When the famine came the people could not afford to pay her, and she left the district,

John Kane of Corbally met James Lawlor of Lacken one very cold morning in Winter. Said John Kane to James Lawlor. "It is a raw morning." James Lawlor answered. "We ought to boil it for you."

John Kane's house was burned in the night time when they were in bed,No one was injured.There was a threshing machine and forty barrels of corn burned in a field in Corbally. The machine belonged to Anthony Conroy,Skerry, Patrick Fitzpatrick burned the boots off his feet trying to save it, A man named Martin Cranley saw the time at the cross of Drummond by his watch with the light of the fire.There was a flu in 1920 Many people died.

My native district is called Corbally. There are eleven families in the district. There are sixty-four people in the district. They most common family name in the district is Byrne. They are not able to tell much stories. There are no people over seventy living in the district. They are not able to tell any Irish stories. Some of the people are able to tell short stories.

There is supposed to be money at the old Windmill in Ballyadams. A girl Miss Mc Hugh Corbally Ballylinan Laoighis dreamt one night that there was money there. She went to search next day but got none.