Will's Billy (William, son of William) Curran, lived on a small holding on Sheepland. His small thatched cottagewas not only the ceilidhing place of the district, but for all who cared to call for a yarn. He was a great storyteller and was able to recite stories that happened to people from centuries long gone.

Billy had a big voice and used it very effectively especially when reciting the poems of Robbie Burns such as 'Tam O' Shanter' and 'The Jolly Beggars'. Quite often Billy would get out his fiddle and sit on Craigmalady rock in Sheepland and play tunes into the evening with his music drifting over the fields for all who wanted to hear.

Billy was an avid reader and spoke Irish, people from all walks of life would go to Billy as he was known as a 'Shanachie'. On many occasions you could find the great antiquarian Francis Joesph Bigger sitting along his heartside along with the famous revolutionary Irishmen like Sir Roger Casement and Eskine Childers, father of a future Irish president.

Billy was also a great nature lover and spent much of his life studing birds and wildlife, and fishing at Sheepland harbour for his dinner - he would have made his own flies out of bird featers and threds from old shirts. He was superstitous and said he had seen lots of ghosts and fairies giving colourful accounts of these happenings.

Will's Billy died in October 1933 aged 76 but while his house is now four crubling walls he is still remembered with warmth and a certain pride by those who knew him.