Rockstown Castle
In ancient times the people thought there was treasure hidden under the western window of Rockstown castle. The farmers who bordered around the place were rich and prosperous and people came to conclusion that they were digging gold in Rockstown. Many stories were told about that treasure.
On one occasion a man dreamt three times about the treasure and he thought he saw the spot where it had been hidden. Immediately he began to dig up the place he had seen in his dreams. He continued for a long time but all in vain - he found no gold.
Another night a great number of men went digging for the gold. As the men were working very hard they heard the clinking of chains and a great light shone round them. Off they went leaving their shovels and spades behind them as they thought it was the devil but they never found any gold there. The men got such a fright that they never searched for the golf again.
The originator of the scheme for the securing of the treasure was one Patsy Kane from [Fedamore] (now dead) but his work was brought to nought by Stephen Ryan of Rockstown (now seventy years of age) and his companions.
Information re Rockstown and neighbourhood from Stephen Ryan, Rockstown (70 years of age).

The Fair of GlenograGlenogra is situated in the parish of Fedamore on the banks of the Camoge. One fair was held in Glenogra on 31st May of each year. People came from all counties to buy there and all the farmers around attended. It was noted for bulls, fat cattle, pigs and especially bonhams. Cattle buyers walked the animals to Crooom or Kilmallock and sent them to the various ports. These late years only a couple of loads of pigs are sold there. Latterly the fair has dwindled down to one of pigs only. When the fair was in full swing between twenty and thirty years ago children always got a day from school. There were stalls containing Peggy's leg ect. games and all kinds of amusements. Servants got a free day from work. They had a dance in the evening on the fair green. The fair of Glenogra was

Hidden Treasure.
Told by
Mr Paddy Ryan Labourer Aged 59 years.
Enaghroe
Fedamore Co. Limerick.
There was a hidden treasure over in Rockstown Castle near Ballyneety. The field belongs to Mr. Brazil Kelly. The Danes when they were here in Ireland in the year 1796 hid the gold there. Mr Meaney found it after and bought a farm of land back near Croom. This Mr. Meaney was also living in Rockstown in the boundary of Mr. Kelly’s land. It was not long until he went out of his mind. Some people say that a big bull with chains onto him minds the Treasure by night. Lights were seen there a long time ago. Lights are seen nearby every All Souls night. Some people are afraid to go over that road on All Souls night. Mr. Meaney got three crocks of gold. He told no one about it only his sons. One of his sons is living over in the same house yet. He got a new house built the other day.

Biddy Earlie.
Told by Mrs Margaret Keogh Aged 64.
Castlequarter
Fedamore, Co. Limerick.
There was a mission in Clare one time. There was a woman that had a mission stand there and she went to see Biddy Earlie one day and Biddy Earlie had a small little house and it thatched and white washed as white as snow. And the mission woman did not want her for anything only to see her. She went to the house and stood outside the half door and looked in and she saw a nice young man sitting at the fire and he having a quart bottle of whiskey and he having his glass and he drinking it. And I suppose he was her husband when out hops Biddy out of the room. Take the full of your eyes of me now. It’s that what brought you” and the woman got a great land. When she was coming away she met the parish priest and he for bid her not to go there any more.

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Hidden Treasure No 1About a mile from Caherelly school in the townland of Ballybricken there is an old castle ruins. It is on Mr Kelly's land is called Ballybricken castle. Sir George Ingoldsby, who received some land in the district during the Cromwellian plantation built it.On the easter side of the castle a few yards fromt he doorway on that side, treasure is supposed to be hidden which was placed ther by the Danes by whom it was stolen from the churches and monasteries round the countryside and when they were forced to flee from the place they had hidden their treasure before they fled.Two men from Fedamore who heard of the hidden treasure made an attempt to unearth it. At the hour fo the midnight they got ready their shovels and picks and began to dig a few yards away from the castle.They laboured hard for three housea dn by that tim had a pit five feet square and six feet deep dug, yet ther came to no treasure.When they had a pit twelve feet

Stories of the Witch - Biddy Early.
1. Biddy Early was a witch who lived in the County Clare.
Two women from Fedamore went to her for a cure. At that time all the people traveled on horse-back.
Biddy Early gave them the cure but warned them not to let the bottle fall when passing the wall around Ballinagarde.
As they were passing the wall one of them took the two horses and the bottle. They held on to the wall for fear they would be knocked down.
The wall fell down on top of them. But the bottle was not broken and they got home safely.

also.
There is a blacksmith buried in Fedamore Churchyard and on his tombstone that lies over his grave the implements of a blacksmiths forge are cut in the stone and also the following verse
“My sledge and hammers have declined,
My bellows too has lost its wind,
My fire extinguished,
My forge decayed,
And on the the earth my vice is laid."

The fairs in the district are held at Glenogra and Croom.
The fairs of Glenogra are held on the road-side, but at Croom they are held in the town.
Occasionally buyers make purchase of "dry stock" on the lands.
There is a special Fair Green in the city of Limerick, but at Rathkeale and Croom the fairs are held in the streets. The toll paid to market trustees is collected at the gate.
Fairs were formerly held at Adare and Fedamore but for the want of facilities for transport they were discontinued.
The "luck penny" given is about a 1/- per head and for smaller animals such as bonhams and calves about 6d per head.

Continued from page 126)line - as Garranavohreen, was always known to him as Garrana-wawneen, and that he thinks that the name was applied to a wider area than the field specified at page 124.
Droichidín-an-Phúca (Drehideenafooka). the bridge over the streamlet that crosses the Manister to Chlorane road about 100 yards south of the "Burnt Cross"
6" Sheet 31 LimerickCoonanaspride (Cúinne an Spioraid), an angle in Mr. Jerry Quain's field immediately south of the double cottage (on the Manister to Fedamore road) which is about 550 yards eastward from Manister village on the right hand side of the road going eastward. 6" Sheet 31 Limerick
On page 116 are listed some place-names from Cnoc Fírinne. I have visited these places since writing in their names but unfortunately without a local guide. However from reference to the ordnance sheet it is I think quite easy to recognize the "Bronebreena" (?) as a circular fort some 300 yards east of the Pollnabreena marked on the map. The fort is not strictly speaking circular, it is much nearer to being oval and is surrounded by a very deep trench within which is a high embankment. In one corner of this embankment is a pile of stones(Continued on page 135

Hidden Treasure
Rockstown Castle Horde C - Cont. from page . 8=Rockstown Castle or as it is also called Williamstown Castle is situated about half a mile north-west of Sheehan's Cross which is about 7½ miles south of Limerick Ciry on the main road from Limerick to Kilmallock.
At the base of this castle there is supposed to be a pot of gold hidden under a large flag.
The gold is supposed to be hidden there by priests when they were pursued by soldiers.One night about 27 years ago John Keane, Skules, Fedamore and 3 others set out to find the gold.
They first took a good supply of "spirits in" to keep the "spirits down".
Then they began operations. They were not long working when they heard a terrible noise; just as if the castle was falling down on top of them.

Local Roads"Carnane road"
"Avywee road",
The Cois"
"The New road"
The "Lodge road"
The "Castle road"Carnane road leads from the Fanningstown side. The "Cois" road also links into the "the Carnane" road. The Cois is made only for about thirty five years. Before that there was an old path by which the Skule people went to mass to Fedamore. The only road people talk about is Bianconie's road". It ran from Clonmel to Limerick through Grange and across the Western side of Skule hill and through Ballinagarde. There was another old road leading from the Rock to Cole's house and into Rockstown. It was called Cole's road. The Coles were a Protestant family who came as retainers with Lady Georgine Croker. There

Hidden Treasure.
Told by
James Doughney (Farmer)
Ballyea
Fedamore, Co. Limerick.
About 70 years ago a family named O’ Connell lived in Park Ruadh Friarstown, A dancing master was staying in the house for 3 months of the winter with the 7 sons while he taught in the locality. One Sat night as he thought he slept he had a dream. He dreamt of a field and became aware of all dimensions. In the centre on a low mound grew a bush. He dreamt how the bush was put there and under the bush was gold to be had. He gave instructions then that 3’ had to be dug to get bush away and after that there were stones to be raised. Below that there was a flag 6’ x6’ x6’. under that there was a circular hole and after that a cask. He had the same dream 3 Saturday’s running. The following
Sunding when they were eating their dinner he told the secret to one of the boys. The boy said he knew where it was and it belonged to them. The boy told his brothers about it and they settled to get it and they did. They found everything as they were told. When they got to the cask they got 3 stones as wedges on 3 corners. They got them up and they saw that the cask was made

MeatMeat was had only on Thursday and Sundays always American Meat. On other days there was potatoes clop (lard melted and put in a saucer or plate. You'd have sour milk it all meals.FishSome times salt herrings would be given.Eight or nine dozen of these would be bought at times and they'ed be hung up near the crane of the fire and left there until required. They'd shave [?] out through you. They reason was the contuation of them I suppose. Mutton was never given but sometimes there used be veal.Míceal O [?] [?] [?]Told by Mrs KeoghFedamoreCo Limerick
Aged 64 years.

are gone. They say that when they went to arrest Scanlan for the murder that he was in a garden near the Castle, and that he put his hand on a ten foot wall and cleared it. But twas all not good. You know the other story of how he was got (Cuid I). Danny Mann's Sullivans were living in Ballycahane. (All above, to last authority quoted, from Mr. O Connell.)There was a character in the eastern part of the parish of Fedamore in the days of the faction-fights whose name was Cilooly (phonetic spelling). When he was anxious to pick a quarrel he shouted "in a fierce way:""In Fox Cilooly, I'm stout and I'm bold
and never conquered or controlled
By any ____* three year old
And to hell with the vonisther girl." *** (Note: I didn't get the word to fill the space where the dash is above. The challenge or war cry came to me from Mrs. Hederman of "Lortyloorty" (Clogherdaloorty) Tedamore, through her daughter Mrs. James Hartigan, Carrigeen, Croom, and thence via here son Michael Hartigan, dalta sgoile, here.** Note: Alternative to last line herewith (and I believe the most correct version)
"To hell with you varisther Leahy"
(apparently for barrister) I do not understand "vonisther" above, nor can I find to what or whom it refers. It may be Mhainisar, for the young land pronounced it "Von ishther" and so might refer to some girl from Mainiscir - an-Aonaigh, a "three

We have centres and half backs none bolder
In O'Connell, and Tommy and Brien
Three brave men from old Ballyorgan,
And Callaghan skillful and strong
And Leahy our wonderful score man
To gladden the heart of the throng.
IV
This season our lads played like heroes
At Mallow and Shanballymore
And at home they defeated their old foes
The champions and brave Fedamore
Of triumphs galore we can boast boys
With a single unlucky defeat
But next year we'll start from the post boys
And sweep every team off their feet.

the place, captured the priest and put him to death.Before being put to death the Priest said when he heard the woman giving evidence against him that her children and their offsprings would be known on earth by a peculiar turn or squint in their eyes.When the woman returned later to the well she found that it had moved, and at the same time her eyes became addicted to a peculiar squint or turn.To the present days her descendants who live in Skule, Fedamore can be known by a peculiar turn or disease in their eyes.
Some of her descendants at the present time are living in Schule.Their names are *Mac NaMaras:- and their will be a remenant of the Mac Namaras always in the locality, and will always have a turn in their eyes and will also be very large and extra red.I
John Clancy, Carpenter
Grange, Kilmallock
II
Daithi Sheehan
Ballingarde, Ballyneety.* Above story is probably actionable so I expect the "Powers that be" = to keep it "quite"

Thro' the ranks of Fedamore.
IV
Ah! dear exile in spirit come
And from Burke's hill gaze down
On sun - kissed scenes so fair to view
Around the garden town
Far off, Knockfierna vigil keeps.
Her rugged slopes look grand
Fair Heathfield, too presents a view symbolic of our land
Close by Glenwilliam's leafy dells,
Where breast - speckled thrushes sing
The cuckoo pipes of Spring.
V
And midst these scenes entrancing all
One yet commands your gaze,
A relic 'tis, within your reach of Irelands stormy days,
De Lacey's frowning castle, dear Exile do not forget
How oft on highest Turret bold,

When the thoughts of old Ireland rain into his head
And his heart that was light got as heavy as lead
When he thought of the days he was fowling
The Trenches with shrapnel they often did fill
And the plover & snipe in abundance did kill
The seines in the stocky and discusted poor Bill
When he thought of the Racwes in Fedamore HillVIIThe thoughts of Kildonnell were playing in his mind
And all the old folks he was leaving behind
The Cahill's the Sheehans the Barry's and Downes.
The Horegans Enrights O Donnells & Browns
The Mack's and the Hayes Mac Cormacks and all
And a great many others I cannot recall
And the plat form dance at Pat Roberts ball
Another gallant old Captain the best of them all

Townlands of Parish
(a) Fedamore (Fiadh Damair) Damair's wood - Damair was a Tuatha de Danann chieftain.3 forts 1 St Johns Well. Old Churchyard Size. Population
(b) Ballyea (Baile Aoidh) Hugh's Town3 forts Size Population
(c) Castlequarter The quarter going with a castle of which no trace remains.
The site is known.
(d) Glenogra (Gleann Orgra)Orgra was a pagan chief - Chief of the O'Donovan clan, Chiefs of district up to 950 A.D. (approx)
(e) Mortgage
(f) Enaghroe (Aonach Ruadh)From a pathway which may still be seen.
(g) Poulataloon (Poll Talmhain)From a hole or tunnel in ground.
(h) Cloughardolarty ( Clochar -- (?) )
(i) Skule ? At one time there was a "Soupers" school in this district.