Local Lore

By Jerry Jack Owen Daly, Local Historian and Storyteller, left the Crimea 1938, aged 17 “The Boer War was finishing at the same time, and there was six or seven tenants here. And Tom Ned over in Gortavallig (he was the sublandlord of this area at the time), this was all called Gortavallig then. And they used to go south (for Tom Ned), one of them would go south when … [Read more...] about Crimea

“And You Know The Land Is Great Security” By Jimmy Coakley, Storyteller and Local Historian, born Tooreen, 1915 “That time on the peninsula the farmers tilled every inch of land, up to the very ditch, they couldn’t afford to leave anything untilled, God help us how they managed it, I don’t know. But anyway, every one kept about thirty hens and on one day of the week … [Read more...] about The Land Is Great Security

The Lake of Blood The Lake Of Blood By Willie Dwyer, Local Historian, Rooska, Bantry “Those stone cairns up there on the hill are not the original cairns made by the Ordnance Survey (in the 1830s), but they are on that the original spot, I believe, of the cairns. Some people used to go out there and knock it down, and the next party that would go up would rebuild it … [Read more...] about Local Lore

By Eileen O’Mahony, Kilcrohane, Local Historian “Somewhere on that road is an elder bush that we were always told was haunted, and they said “Beware of the elder bush at night”. When you come off the hill and finally onto a small tarred road, TURN LEFT when you meet the main road, and then very quickly TURN RIGHT and then back up onto the hill After a few miles … [Read more...] about A Haunted Elder Bush