The Lake County property known as Kilkenny Ranch and was purchased in 1907 by Catherine Kilkenny for a ten dollar gold piece. She acquired it as a place for her 30 year old bachelor son, Martin, who had tuberculosis, to live away from the bad air of the great valley. He died there the next year. The property was retained by the family although its occasional rental as a place to graze cattle did not always pay the taxes. As transportation improved it was, on occasion, used as a deer hunting camp. In the 1930’s such use increased to an annual basis. It now is visited 20 or 30 times a year by a variety of family members and their friends. The one-room cabin on it and the greater part of the whole area burned in a 1944 forest fire. The facility was rebuilt over the following ten years to the state it is in today. It is a rustic camp without any utility hook—ups to the outside. It is comprised of a two-room cooking and eating cabin, two one-room sleeping cabins, and two outside sleeping porches. It has a spring-water storage tank and service from it to a single shower and flush toilet, and to the cook shack. Its rustic nature has been deliberately maintained over the years.