sun set the bird would be then asleep waiting for a misty evening to approach one more. Scaling up the walls of the Caher they found the bird asleep on a topfold stone. Brushing with fury that dread sometimes give, they struck her several deadly blows. Waking in her death agony she uttered one piercing unearthly cry that seemed to shake the very earth around her. Frightened and panic stricken the attackers fled and so closely were they followed by their enemies that huddling as they tried to enter their Caher they blocked the entrance. Except for the few that entered all were destroyed outside. The attackers now entered and dragged them from their hiding place, put them coldly and cruelly to death. From this incident comes the name Caher-furwais (Cathair fuar bais) the Caher of the cold death, and Caherduvane the black bird. (Cathair Dub-ín)

There were mills in Caher Clogheen owned by Quakers and the traffic on the road from Kilbehenny to Caher was mostly common cars going to these mills.

There are many old castles all over the place. There is an old caher in Castletown the name of it is Cathair Comáin. There did people come from America to dig it and they go something made from gold. There is an old caher in Poulawhack and they also dug it up and they got many old things. They got bones of people and many other things. There is an old caher in Greenes place in Poulanine and there was music often heard there. There is an old caher in Roche's place in Meggah. There was a concertina often heard playing there. It was my Father that told me this.

There is treasure hidden under a stone with a horse-shoe cut out on it and it is in a caher near my house at Caherclancy in Toonagh. Some people say that it is gold and others say that it is chalices or silver because there was a bell found under two stones.
Anear this caher there used to be a dog named the Tollaire seen there every night long ago. Anear this caher there is a tree called the drooping ash and there used to be a pig sitting on top of a tree every night.

Mooher na gCeardta = There was a forge there long ago and it was in that mooher. Mooher na Scoile = There was a school in that place long ago and there is where the boys used to play. Russian = There was a lot of rushes growing there and all the people around called it Russian. Ladysmith = There was a smiths house there and a lady came to live in it and then the people called it Ladysmith. Lios na ghceann = There is a big lump of stones and sticks there and fairys used to be seen in the top of it and the people called it Lios na gceann. Caher Mic knoctain. = There was a house there and a caher and a man lived in the house called Mic knocktain and the people called it Caher Mic knoctian.

The Caher of Killard is in a field about three miles from the village of Puckane. The field in which the cahir is is the property of Mr Crosse.
One of the stories about this caher is In Pagan times the chief of this district lived in this old caher. The chiefs name was O'Brien. He had two sons.
O'Brien was a rough man and he sent his wife to work during the day. While the wife worked hard the chief and his sons adored false gods.
The men of the family stayed up nearly the whole night. They had dips for candles and these they placed on the stones of their dwelling. The stones can be seen yet and are remarkable for the fact that the smoke of the candles can be seen on them. Every year on the 31st June a Leupracan can be seen mending boots on one of the stones. He wears a red cap and has a pot of gold by his side.
It is said if you go into the caher you may hear men's voices, talking and laughing. It is also said taht on Xmas Eve a man stands in the middle of the caher and shouts three

The name of the townland in which I was born in is Killuran More. There are two others, Killuran Abbey and Killuran Beg. There are several others, namely Gurtatrassa, Drumin, Dreamean, Ballnabrone, Clare Mount, Ballymacdonell, Hnock Brock, Inchelogue, Com Brock, Clounglehen, Brocka, New-town, Silver-Grove, Kealderra, Caher-Hurley, Caher Hurley got its name from a great giant that lived there in olden days. He was a great goal-keeper. He used to stop the ball with the body of a car which he used for a hurley.

They must stay there until some one takes the gold. I will give you a key and when you go back to Ireland, go there at Mass time and you'll find the door. Open it with this key and go in.
They will jump with joy but don't get frightened they are most eager to get away because when the gold is taken they are free.
The soldier thanked the old man and in due time came back to Caher cu-guola. He went at Mass time to the Caher, found their door and opened it. The dogs jumped with joy and he got frightened and rushed out leaving the key in the lock. After a while he recovered himself and came again to look for the door and the key, but he could find neither.
The belief exists in the locality that the gold exists there yet.
This caher is on the side of the road leading from Kilmacduagh to Ardrahan to the west, N. West

the long journey while their supper was getting ready To make a long story short they soon got to work and it wasn't long till the walls of the caher began to rise up like magic. The Gobán invented all sorts of queer machines to rise the great stones on to their places. Didn't he astonish the Firbolg, and show them what a Munster Milesian could do, but this was nothing to the treasure house he built inside the caher all under ground It was round and like a big beehive the stones all beautifully cut and joined together the one in the other so that you could not take out one without bringing down the whole building But I must go back to my story to tell you that the pair hadn't been long at the coort of Connaught when Darra noticed a purty fair haired blue eyed colleen that used to be waiting maid for the Queen and she herself a chieftain's

2. Maurice Collins of Tylough Rathanny, says that there was a school at the top of Caher road in Mick Costelloe's field. The teacher there was a local Caherman called Bob Costello. The first to the school should clean the house and the school at Caher was sometimes held in Costelloe's house. The teachers in any of the schools were not strangers. A spelling book and Reading-made-easy were used. No blackboard was used and the teachers remained in the district a long time.

Asail. Drumasail is Tory hill. Sid-Asail is Sheenfinoge on Grangehill, which seems an ancient burial place. It means the "Shee or fort of the Royston Crows". So called from a local princess, who claimed descent from Macha who, with her two sisters, goddesses, embodied themselves as such birds as eerie demons, who screamed terribly during a battle of fighting armies. Aenagh-Asail or Aonagh-beag, situated on the North bank of the Commogue, opposite Manister Abbey, was one of the four great assembly places in the County Limerick, and as such a burial place. It is an earthen two-ring fort, in the form of the figure eight, around which the sports were held. Sidh-Magh-Asail - the fort or Shee of the plain of Asail" - is probably Killonahan Caher. It was likely to this caher that Fergus Mac Roig was brought after being wounded in defence of his friend, Asail, at the ford of the Commogue, by the Spanish host from Spain. It is a king's fort.Some years ago, Mr. Riordan found a canon ball in its wall, which is still in his possession. I am of the opinion that the old road, which goes from the main Crorom-Limerick road at Quin's cross to the townland of Ballyluskey, was the main route for the armies of Elizabeth, Cromwell and William to Limerick and North Munster. The caher

In the townland of Shanbally there is a about half an acre of land encircled by a stone wall about six feet high and six feet wide. It is called Caher Cealtrac. inside there are the remains of an old church where mass was said in the time of Cromwell. Portion on an old cross still markes where the alter was. Inside these walls there were several people buried as Head stones and Food stones still mark their graves. In those days there was also a castle in Shanbally over looking the lake. The remains of the castle is yet to be seen. But is converted into a field and it stands about six feet above the level of the ground. It is said a king lived there who had two sons. One killed the other. He was buried in Crocain Creise. But later the corpse was changed to Caher Cealtrac.
Told by William Cahill, Shanbally, Craughwell, Co Galway

There are three forts around this district. One is near our school, another in Caher and the third in Ballyruin, each one is in view of the other.
The one which is near our school is of a circular shape and on the fence is a mass of furze bushes, This fort is supposed to be very lonely and long ago any one did not like to go by it in the night, Because one night about twelve o' clock a man was returning from Bantry with a load of slate and when he came to the fort the horse refused to go beyond it and began to back, as if he saw or heard something. The man did his best to get the horse to pass it but his work was in vain the horse would not proceed a step farther and he was forced to bring the horse about and go back to seek shelter from a near by neighbour. Many a time there were strange lights seen there and very often people heard talk in it as they were passing and the old people say its proper name is the "Fairy Fort" because it was the dwelling of the fairies in by - gone days.
The caher "Fort" is of a circular shape also, and on the surrounding fence there are

There is a place in Caher Mountain where deers were, and my grand Mother knew when they were there, and the place was paled in where they were, and the owner of them was John O'Connor of Tureen. One day the Bailiffs came to his house for their rent, and he said if they came any farther he would put the light through them, and when he would not pay his rent the Bailiffs took the deers as payment. In the dark of the night he went looking for his animals, and when he came in sight of the house he saw a bright light. He went in and there he saw his animals dead. He asked the woman of the house where did they get his deer. She said nothing but while he was lighting his pipe she struck him with a knife and killed him, and it is said that the man and his deers' were buried in Caher Mountain, and where they are buried it is called poll n bfíadDonncadh O'Dalaigh

There see many forts in this district. Some one known as Forts, others as Liss and ohers as Caher. The Caher is in the townland of Milltown. There is a great stone wall around it.
Lissa Dún, is situated west of the village of Askeaton. This is a big hill surrounded by bushes and trees, there are also bushes on top of it..
Haugh's Fort, is situated in the townland of Maig in the parish of Askeaton. A woman in this village was always saying that two or three men searched in it for treasure. They went there two nights and on each time they met all kinds of insects. They did not go the third night and every one said they should have gone the third night.

in a field of Mr John OMalley, Rosstemple at a distance of some 200 yards from the road, and to the east of the latter. When I visited the field in February I felt that there had been at some time a slight stream of water flowing through it as the hollow places in a continuous but broken line extended right across the field from N.W. To S.E. And at the latter point, cutting right through the ‘Caher’. The latter is a longish mound or rather two mounds separated by the watercourse. They are both some 12 feet higher than the surrounding field and are 30 to 35 yards long. They are suddenly terminated by the field fence, outside that is to the south-east, of which the land falls away in a rapid slope to the Maigue which runs northward here through a pretty valley. The Caher is only 100 yds from the river and must be from 80 to 100 feet higher than it. I think, from a cursory examination of the mounds that they are artificial. There is nothing else in the field to invite attention except the watercourse which cuts between the mounds and which in places, from the dry nature of the soil above it’s apparent course, would appear to have been bridged over originally, the bridging seemingly having fallen in where the damp hollows are on its course. This ordinarily would be nothing more than a well made drain, but it is an odd thing that the drain makes those to run their aqueduct between the two mounds or rather to cut the mound in two. It is not a very impressive “cataip’[?] but the fact remains that the name persists and at that I leave it.

The Graveyards long ago were very neglected and therefore they were very rugged.
The name given to the place where unbaptized children were buried is called a Kile.
Once a gentleman lived in Caher, his name was O'Hara, and his dying wish was to be buried in the Kile in Caher, because he was a Protestant, and wanted to be buried in the neighbourhood.

8th March 1938
Folklore
In olden times when all the best land in the country was owned by the landlords, it was a constant cause of trouble between landlords and tenants. In this parish the Caher estate caused much alarm among the tenants.
Caher-house and about 200 acres of land belonged toa a family of the O'Hara's for a considerable length of time. Mr O'Hara died and after some time his wife offered house and land for sale, it was purchased by a man of the O'Dwyer from the parish of Tulla.

Caṫair Na Murcaḋa :- The Murphys still live in Cahermurphy though their numbers are diminishing and their possessions likewise. Mr. O Gorman, N.T. Coore, Miltown Malbay, whom I have quoted elsewhere more than once, says that Murrough Son of Brian Boru led an expedition into the locality against the Danes who were strongly encamped in a [underlined:]stone fort or Caṫair in the locality. The remains of this Caṫair are still clearly marked and give the name Caher Hill to the abrupt mound that lies west of Cahermurphy school. Below this hill by the way, are two round fairly large pools in the bog whose origin is ascribed to some ancient giant who jumped from Caher hill and left two mighty footprints in the bog beneath. In one of these too a barrel of gold is said to lie awaiting discovery.
To return to the Danes of the Caṫair and the invading forces of Murrough: it is said that the hill and level land round about was thickly wooded at the time (and there is ample evidence of the truth of this) thereby affording splendid

eleven o'clock. When they were just up to where the caher is a big black animal in the shape of a black jumped out across the road and knocked one of them off the bicycle and then disappeared again. People say that it is a dog named the Tollaire is there in the caher minding gold that is hidden under a big rock with a horseshoe cut out on it.
There used be a broc-sidhe seen in Rath Lake about Dysart every seven years. Long ago he used to eat beasts and everything. Then some saint tied him to the bottom of the lake and no one ever tried to kill him. People say that it is not right to kill or destroy any of them.