Volume: CBÉ 0580 (Part 1) Date 1938Collectors Seán Ó Súilleabháin Séamus Ó Duilearga Location Tullow, Co. Carlow List Browse Titles (38) 1. “During the course of the evening Mac Donald made a passing reference to Moll Anthony, the fairy-woman of Kildare...” Lore 2. “Mac Donald said there was a rath on top of Clonogan Hill.” Lore 3. “Mr. O' Toole and Mac Donald had often heard a story about a young cat...” Lore 4. “An old man in Ballyredmond often told the story about cats which came in to a barn...” Lore 5. “All cats, at one time, had a nail on the end of their tail to kill rats with.” Lore 6. “Mr. O'Toole made reference to a story which he had heard about the Hairy Puckán.” Lore 7. “Father Keogh, Ratoa (?) was one May morning going along the road...” Lore 8. “In Cloneygall district cows are always milked from the right side.” Lore 9. Wake Games Lore 10. “Mac Donald when questioned about Death customs in Cloneygall districts said that the corpse is always laid out to face the door.” Lore 11. “In Cloneygall districts the corpse is never waked in the kitchen but always in the room.” Lore 12. “Mac Donald said that he had attended a wake in Co. Wexford, where five candles placed in the shape of a crucifix were lighted near the corpse.” Lore 13. “A man called Redmond was very fond of playing cards.” Lore 14. “Mr. O'Toole then told a story about a man who played cards with the Devil one night...” Lore 15. “Patrick Kavanagh's father had two dogs, one a whole spaniel, and the other a half-spaniel.” Lore 16. “Patrick Kavanagh, the miller, was a road contractor.” Lore 17. “A very big flood rose in Cloneygall district in 1881 or 1882, Mac Donald said.” Lore 18. “The North Wexford name for a leipreachán is loorakeen.” Lore 19. “Mr. Fitzgibbon, N.T., Tullow, in whose house the material was recorded on the Ediphone, told a story illustrative of the supposed foolishness of the farmers living in the Barony of Forth, Co. Wexford.” Lore 20. “A child born with a caul will go to sea.” Lore 21. “In the Barony of Forth and Bargy the corn-crake goes by the name of the "bane-crake"...” Lore 22. “I, Frank Mac Donald, Ballyredmond, Cloneygall, am now about to give an account of the traditions heard from me own people of the Rebellion of Seventeen Hundred and Ninety Eight.” Lore 23. “Mr. O'Toole told of practical jokes played on some men who were excavating a souterrain in Labnasy (the Bitch's Bed).” Lore 24. “A man called "Saybrook" was very miserly and "griping".” Lore 25. “The Bow (pron. Beow) follows the O'Byrne family in Rathvilly.” Lore 26. “I questioned Mac Donald about the Famine traditions in Co. Carlow.” Lore 27. “The Cloneygall name for sticks is for the fire is bresna.” Lore 28. “The práiscín is the local name for a sack-apron...” Lore 29. “Stories about a priest who returns at night to say a Mass...” Lore 30. “There is a story locally about a priest who married one of the Nixons of Ballyraheen.” Lore 31. “The greatest battle fought during the Rebellion was the one at Horetown.” Lore 32. “Talking about people who lived long lives...” Lore 33. “Mac Donald himself was born in Ballyredmond...” Lore 34. “Mac Donald told the story of a man who was coming home drunk one night up Ballyredmond Hill.” Lore 35. “Patrick Kavanagh, miller, Ballyredmond has scores of Ghost stories, Mac Donald says.” Lore 36. “Mac Donald, when questioned as to what was the custom with hair which was cut off from a person's head, said, that the person was told to blow on it with his breath, and put it in the fire.” Lore 37. “When a child throws a fallen tooth over its right shoulder...” Lore 38. “County Wexford is noted for the number of sprinf cars owned by the farmers.” Lore Mode: Magnify Zoom Jump to page / 025 Archival Reference The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0580, Page 001 Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD. See copyright details. Download
1. “During the course of the evening Mac Donald made a passing reference to Moll Anthony, the fairy-woman of Kildare...” Lore
10. “Mac Donald when questioned about Death customs in Cloneygall districts said that the corpse is always laid out to face the door.” Lore
12. “Mac Donald said that he had attended a wake in Co. Wexford, where five candles placed in the shape of a crucifix were lighted near the corpse.” Lore
15. “Patrick Kavanagh's father had two dogs, one a whole spaniel, and the other a half-spaniel.” Lore
19. “Mr. Fitzgibbon, N.T., Tullow, in whose house the material was recorded on the Ediphone, told a story illustrative of the supposed foolishness of the farmers living in the Barony of Forth, Co. Wexford.” Lore
22. “I, Frank Mac Donald, Ballyredmond, Cloneygall, am now about to give an account of the traditions heard from me own people of the Rebellion of Seventeen Hundred and Ninety Eight.” Lore
23. “Mr. O'Toole told of practical jokes played on some men who were excavating a souterrain in Labnasy (the Bitch's Bed).” Lore
34. “Mac Donald told the story of a man who was coming home drunk one night up Ballyredmond Hill.” Lore
36. “Mac Donald, when questioned as to what was the custom with hair which was cut off from a person's head, said, that the person was told to blow on it with his breath, and put it in the fire.” Lore