This house is in the townland of Garryduff East Parish of Ballintemple, and the Barony of Kilnamanagh Lower. The number of families in the townland is roughly thirty and the number of people is approximately 200. The family name most common in Garryduff is Ryan and that is so common that one person out of every three is a Ryan. The types of houses most common round here, are a very pretty one storey slated houses with a flower garden in front. Earl de Montalt was very fond of one - storey houses, and he had all his tenants houses built on the same pattern.
Garryduff means the black garden in Irish, and that is owing to the nature of the soil which a dark black colour.
There are not very many old people living in the parish but there are a few between 70 and 80 and one or two are nearly 90. They don't speak Irish but they could tell many a good story in English. The oldest resident is a Mrs Taylor and she is 86.
The houses are more numerous now than in former times, that is owing to the big estate being sold out. There are

Hidden Treasure
About two miles from this place a treasure is supposed to be hidden. This place is called Coobroo. It was placed there by the O'Dwyers of Kilnamanagh when they were fleeing from Cromwell.
One night a number of men went to look for this hidden treasure but a big bull came and attacked them. They went the second night and took guns with them but a horse of an enormous size came and frightened them away.
The treasure is supposed to be a jar of gold and silver. It is hidden in a well. A very large horse is supposed to be guarding it.

The Dwyers of Kilnamanagh built many castles in this disctrict all of which are now in ruins.Cloneyharp, Ballagh, Miltown, Ballymore, Clogher all come within this parish. There is no trace of the latter except the foundation mark on the top of Clogher Hill. The stones were carted away for housebuilding.
It was a favourite custom of the people of the district to draw to the foundation sticks, bushes & turf for a fire on St. John's Eve & to dance there until the small hours of the morning.
This custom has long since ceased to exist.This hill must have been a place of Pagan worship in olden times, for at the base of the hill in a small garden now belonging to Denis Ryan, Clogher, Clonoulty is a

A Fort
There is a fort on red Byrne's farm parish of Clonoulty, Tipperary South Riding There are a fence and trees around it There is an underground passage connecting this with an adjoining one on Andy Moynihan's farm There is a hole in the centre. It is said that if anyone went down in it they would not return.
Parish - Clonoulty
Baronry - Kilnamanagh
E. D. - Clonoulty East
County - Tipperary

Hidden Gold.
The following story was told to me by my grandmother Bessie Kearney. There was supposed to be gold hidden in place called Kilnamanagh near Glenealy. The treasure consisted of gold and silver.
One night a man dreamt of it. He told no body about it. He dreamt of it twice more. He said he would go some night and dig for it. One night he set out with his son to dig for it. They were digging for about half an hour when a couch drawn by two white horses passed by.
It stopped a few yards above the men. A man dressed in white got out of it. He went over to the men and they

In the early Milesian periodn that portion of Mayo and Roscommon which now comprises the Barony of Costello was known "Ciarraige"
1. Ciarraige Ai or Maigh Ai in the barony of Casterea except Parish of Balintubber.
2. Ciarraige of Artech which was the parishes of Kilnamanagh and Castlemore in Roscommon and Mayo respectively.
3. Ciarriage loc na nAirneadh in the eastern and southern part of parish of Aughamore and in Bekan and Anngh,
4. Ciarraige Mactur in the rest of Aughamore and Knock.
The county of Mayo consisted of fragments of Kingdoms and tribes whereof the Hy Teacrach were the principal. The events connected with it at this period are mainly in connection with the kings of these tribes and there qwuarrels with the Hy Bruin kings who were kings of Connaught at this time.
These when in power lived in Ciuachan [?] and at other times they may have lived in the Barney Clare and among the (Conmacre) Conmaicre

It is said that any child that has chincough, if he goes under a donkey foal that has never been used will be cured. Another cure is by drinking ferrets leavings.
Cure for pains in cattle = If a knot called the worm knot is put on the spot where the pain is, it will be cured.
Cure for nettle burn = It is said that if oil is poured where the burn is, it will be cured.
Cure for pain in the Back = It is said that if a person laid on St Fechins bed they would be cured.
Lucy Cawley, Kilnamanagh, Collooney, Co. Sligo.
This information was given to me by my father Felix Cawley.

I was born and reared in the downland of Cloonmagunane. It is situated in the parish of Kilnamanagh and Easte snow :it is in the Barony of Frenchpark and the Co. Roscommon.
At present there are twelve habitations there and the population is forty. The family names most common are Lavins , Dowds, Mc Garrys.
The houses are small and thatched , but there are a few which are stated and they were built some time ago by a few families who came to live here.
The townland , Clonmagunane, got its name form a family calle Cunnane, who lived her some years ago.
No one of the name lives here now as the family emigrated from the district some years back.
There are three old people in the townland who are over seventy years (there ) . Their names and addresses are as follows. Mr James Lavin, Mrs Bridget Lavin , Mr Timothy Dowd, all of Cloonmagunane , Callow Post office, French park Co. Roscommon.
Those old people cannot speak any Irish at all , but they can tell some

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Not far from my home in the townland of Cloonmagunane there is a large tree in a garden bel longing to Mr James Levin. This tree is said to be the dwelling place of a host of fairies or those "good people" as they are sometimes called. It is a very old tree and the old people say it is an ash tree, but for many years it has not produced either buds or leaves. It has a whitish appearance during all the year round and at midnight lights can be seen in it. One day last Summer as my father was saving hay a great gust of wind came straight from ^ the direction of this (field) tree and it rose a lot of the hay off the field and carried it off to a neighbouring field. Sometime afterwards the man who owns the tree was walking under it and and he heard some noise in the tree and on looking up he saw a little and (and he) dressed in red sitting on a bramble of the tree and when he spyied the man watching him he vanished and he was never ^ been seen since.
Lily Croghan
Story told by Tim Dowel. CoonmagunanePArish of Kilnamanagh & Estersnow Barony of Frenchpark Co Roscommon.

In every catholic home religious pictures, statues of Our Lord, Our Blessed Lady, images of saints, crucifixes etc are kept. The pictures are generally hanging on the walls of the sleeping rooms but one often sees religious pictures in the kitchens of houses in the country. The holy images are usually put on altars or on mantlepieces. Great respect is entertained for these as they remind the people of the house of some holy person, place,etc. in connection with their religion.
Besides the holy pictures, statues, etc. one also sees blessed palms. These palms were blessed by the Church on Palm Sunday, were distributed to the people who took them home, and placed them over the holy pictures where they remain till the following Palm Sunday.
Pious people go on pilgrimages to holy places - to Croagh Patrick, Knock, TubberMuire etc., and they take back some of the clay, stones, water, and these are carefully treasured and they are applied to or used by persons suffering from diseases or cases of severe illness. They place great faith in these and if they believe that if they will not effect a complete cure they will at least give relief.
One sometimes sees a cross made from straw attached to the roof of the inside of the kitchen. On the feast of St. Brigid crosses are made from rushes or straw and these are fixed to the inside of the roof near the fireplace. The cross is said to keep the house free from burning, disease or any great calamity. When the feast of St. Brigid returns the old crosses are taken down and burned and new ones are made and put up in their places. There is only one house in the locality in which the Cross of St Brigid is to be seen. It is to be seen in Mrs. Coen's, Callow, Kilnamanagh Parish.

crown. Our Lord sacret Blood fell on it's breast and that is why it is red now.An old man says the passion flower climbed the cross and fastened itself about the holes in the wood by the nails that were driven through the hands and feet of Our Saviour. The early Christians venerated the passion flower. They saw in its buds the Blessed Eucharist and its half open flower the star in the East in the full bloom the five wounds the nails, the hammer, the spear, the pillar of scourging and the crown of thorns on its other leaf the spear head and thirty pieces of silver and the cord that bound him. This is the story of Our Lord.
Eileen Snee
Kilnamanagh
FrenchparkThis was told to me by my Uncle

The local landlords were Masseys, Bennetts, [?]Delmadges, Lowes and Dawsons.
They were good landlords. The Masseys owned Riversdale, the Dawsons Ballinacourty the Bennetts [?], and the Delmadges Ballywire.
Ballywire was owned by Boltons, and Delmedge married a niece of Bolton's who was an heiress.
All were "planters" (Cromwellian Plantation).
Bally wire - the townland of O'Dwyer belonged to the ODwyer's Seán Ó Duibhir a Ghleanna was one of them - of the ODwyers of Kilnamanagh.
The Boltons used to lend money to the poor at a certain rate of interest. The interest was put in the bank, and the interest of that was given to the poor to buy coal.
Some of the money is still in the bank, and the deserving poor of the parish get money every Christmas for coal.

Long, long ago the O'Spillanes were the rulers of Ileigh, the district from which Borrisoleigh takes its name.
In the distant past the O'Dwyers became possessors of the territory; but when or how, tradition does not tell us.
From the 13th to 16th century the O'Dwyers fought hard to prevent the Burkes, a Norman family, from obtaining permanent sway over the leiughdhesch.
In the time of Elizabeth these clans fought a fierce battle at Slievaun, afterwards called Slievan Darrig, now known as Rossamulteeney, and the mounds covering those who fell are still to be seen. The Burkes won when all the male members of the O'Dwyers were killed.
The O'Dwyers now found themselves subject to Sighle Ní Dhuibhir. Sighle was a brave and able woman and made several attempts to conquer her foes but in a short time saw defeat and extinction staring her clan in the face. The chief of the Burkes at that time was Walter, a widower with two sons, Ulick and William.
Knowing how hard pressed Sighle was, her kinsman, the O'Dwyers of Kilnamanagh, came to her aid and after a time a peace was patched up; one of the conditions being that Sighle was to become the wife of Walter.

When the Burkes had at length conquered the territory of Ileigh, the O'Dwyers were given the choice of changing their names to that of Burke or clearing out. Most of them retired into Kilnamanagh and lived among their kinsmen. Among those who elected to remain and change his name was Mlaghlin; not only did he do this but worse still he married a Burke.
From this on the O'Dwyers regarded him as a double dyed traitor.
Tradition has it that he settled in a castle specially built for him at Currabaha, about three miles from here. But he did not long enjoy his new home.
Before he was well settled in it the O'Dwyers during a foray surrounded the castle, but failed to take it. After an attack lasting several hours they retired; but not all of them - for their chief, Conn, remained hidden behind a tree at the entrance gate. Just as night fell Mlaghlin with his baby son in his arms came forth to inspect the damage done. Conn fell on them and with his mighty sword killed them both.
Such is the old story.

The chief family in this district of Kilnamanagh Lower, before the coming of Cromwell, was the O'Dwyers. They owned castles and land. One of their castles was built in the town - land of Garryduff East in what is still known locally as the Castle Field on the land of Mr John Price near the village of Dundrum.
When passing through South Tipperary after the surrender of Clonmel by Owen Roe O'Neill, Cromwell entrusted the capture of the O'Dwyers stronghold to a certain Captain Maude. The O'Dwyers fled after setting fire to their castle or, according to others, after its capture by the Cromwellians.
Captain Maude received all the land in the neighbourhood. He built Dundrum House not far from the site of the O'Dwyers Castle, no trace of which now remains. The Maudes kept a big estate around Dundrum House, but some of the land was let to Irish farmers at the usual high rents.
Some of the tenants bought out their land under the Ashboure Act of 1885. Sometime later the last of the Maudes, Earl de Montalt, and his family, after dividing the remainder of the estate and selling Dundrum House left the country. The forestry department took over the woods and have since planted more.
The Nuns of the Presentation Order in Thurles later purchased Dundrum house. In part of it they keep a Domestic

There is an old castle situated in a field near Mr Ryan's house in Ballintemple, Kilnamanagh Lower, Golden, It is known as the "peggin" of Ballinaclough, because the peggins which were used in olden times for milking purposes represented it.
It is a round building and it is about forty feet high. It has a little bit of masonry on one side which represents that of a peggin.
Inside is a winding stairs leading to the top of it.
Once a bullock went inside and climbed the stairs till he reached the top, but when he got there he could not get down.
And they had to put bushes on the ground and hay on top of the bushes so as to break the fall down.
Then they pushed the bullock down, but he died afterwards.

We live in the townland of Garryduff West in the parish of Ballintemple, barony of Kilnamanagh Lower.
The village of Dundrum is in Garryduff East, but we nowadays seldom or never hear of eigther Garryduff East or West for the district is all called Dundrum, and the parish also often gets the same name.
The Guards Barrack, the Golden Vale Hotel, the Doctors' House are all in Garryduff West. Besides there are a few small farmers houses.
In the village of Dundrum there are sixteen houses and about sixty of a population. The parish church and Rectory are near the village. The houses are all slated and are all more are less modern.
The people are farmers, shopkeepers, and foresters. The land is inclined to be wet.
The woods are the great feature of Dundrum, and they make it a beauty spot.

Old Forts.
There is a fort in Woodford on Paddy Murphy's land. One year he cut bushes in it for fencing purposes and his calves that went into that field, died. There is a big wide bank of earth a round it. There is an opening on the south side of it.
Parish - Clonoulty,
Barony - Kilnamanagh. L.
E. D. - Clonoulty East.
Co. Tipperary

There is an old fort on Paul Dwan's farm in Miltown.
There is a ring of earth in the centre which is surrounded by a great number of big trees. It is said to be built by the Danes. One night at twelve o'clock a man who was coming by the fort saw a large black dog which followed him a long distance, the man was very much frightened and he made up his mind not to come near the fort again.Parish - Clonoulty
Barony - Kilnamanagh Lower
E.D - Clonoulty East
Co. - Tipperary

story is told that he gave it to one of his favourite officers but on account of the dreadful massacre that had taken place there the man wouldn't live in it so Cromwell built him "Kilnamanagh House" in a field adjacent.On the opposite side of the road a couple of fields away stand the ruins of Tymon Castle These ruins are on a great height and serve as a landmark for miles around.Returning to the village one can turn to the left at the "green" and go across the "Old Bawn Road" to "Old Bawn Bridge" This Bridge it would appear was mentioned in history 300 B.C. This fact was proved from an old history found in a cellar under what was once Robert Emmet's house at Rathfarnham.Passing over the Bridge one can either follow the road that leads to Old Court and Ballycullen, where St Columcille's Well is situated, or turn to the right and go to Bohernabreena.It was at Bohernabreena that Oisin was freed from the spell cast on him in Tir-na-nóg. It is at Bohernabreena that the waterworks are situated and about a mile past the R.C Church of St Anne, is that beautiful valley of Glenasmole