Volume: CBÉ 0591 (Part 01) Date 1938Collector Máire Ní Dhonnchadha Location Saint Mary's, Co. Wexford List Browse Titles (211) 1. Toys made by Boys 50-60-70 Years ago Lore 2. How the Boys used to Catch Pigeons, Crows or Other Large Birds Long ago. Lore 3. What Working Men Wore in Olden Times Lore 4. The Working Man's Footwear in Olden Times Lore 5. “A man was making his way across the bog of Ballykelly 4 miles S. from New Ross when two candles raised...” Lore 6. Some Lingering Traditions of the 'Famine' Lore 7. “A very old woman over 90 years (Mrs. Donovan Bawnmore) told me 13.12.'38 that it was the heavy rain and no stopping it that...” Lore 8. Some Lingering Traditions of the "Famine" and the "Public Works" Lore 9. Story of a 'Fetch' Lore 10. Blessed Dough Lore 11. The Whitefeet Lore 12. Great Dancers Lore 13. Johnny Rush, Teacher. Lore 14. Bonnet-Making in the Homes out of Tráithníní Lore 15. Mat-Making Lore 16. Broom Making Lore 17. Basket-Making and Kishmaking Lore 18. Another Local Poet - Martin Foley of Ballyrue Lore 19. Ghosts Lore 20. Here's Something for the Department of Agriculture Lore 21. The Old People used to Say that St. Patrick Changed the Head of Lore 22. The Meals of the Day in Olden Times Lore 23. A Local Poet Lore 24. Some Men who could Perform Great Feats Lore 25. Trees Lore 26. A Great Man of Many Parts Lore 27. Local Heroes Lore 28. Some More Old Time Food Lore 29. Salt to Keep Away the Fairies Lore 30. The Old Times "Staff of Life": Oaten Bread and Barley Meal Bread - The Bread of 70 or More Years ago! Lore 31. Domestics Vessels of Long Ago Lore 32. A True Story of a Ráth Lore 33. Sally Switches Protect from Fairies! Lore 34. Handsel' Monday Lore 35. Fairy Lore Lore 36. Sequah Lore 37. 'Tis Lucky to Put a Bone in a Bonfire Lore 38. What Daniel O'Connell said to Lambert of Carnagh Lore 39. Going to the Fairs and Markets Lore 40. Anne Corcoran Called "Curley Anne" Lore 41. Ballyanne Lore 42. Cures Lore 43. County Galway Cures as Given me by a Loughrea Man Lore 44. Cobwebs Put on a Cut to Stop Bleeding Lore 45. Cures Lore 46. To Lick a Newt or Lizard Gives the Gift of Healing Burns or Scalds Lore 47. Goats' Milk and Goats' Butter Lore 48. Cures Lore 49. A Woman Pricked her Finger to Obtain Blood to Cure St. Anthony's Fire Lore 50. Cures Lore 51. St. Magdalen's = Maudlins Lore 52. The Famine Lore 53. The Blight in England - 1847 Lore 54. He Ground with the Quern Lore 55. True Stories Lore 56. Fisherman's Folklore: The Bridge that Fell in the "Big Snow" Lore 57. A Brave Act Lore 58. Rower Fishermen Spoke Irish as Late as 50 Years ago! Lore 59. The Rower Fishermen's Folklore - South Kilkenny Lore 60. A Great Place Years ago for Catching Salmon! Lore 61. A Story Illustrating the 'Cleverality' of a Salmon Lore 62. Another Story of a Salmon's Gallant Bid for Liberty Lore 63. Seals and Porpoises Lore 64. “Over 40 years ago the greatest shoals of herrings that were ever seen, since or before, were in the Barrow.” Lore 65. “The greatest bullet thrower in Co. Kilkenny...” Lore 66. “The two greatest wrestlers ever Kilkenny produced were Mike Dunphy of Tincerane and Big 'Mickle' Lyng of the Rower.” Lore 67. Co. Kilkenny Women who Made Fishing Nets Lore 68. The Etiquette of Fishing Among the Older Men! Lore 69. “Mr. Jim Grangel a Native of Rosbercon, S. Kilkenny, informed me today...” Lore 70. Fishing Lore 71. What a Fisherman Heard One Night: A True Ghost Story Lore 72. Some Remnants of Irish in the Fishing Terms Lore 73. Fishermen's Lore Lore 74. Fishermen who Fished on the Barrow and Nore Long ago Lore 75. Barrow and Nore Fishermen's Folklore Lore 76. The Last Generation of Kilkenny Spoke Irish! Lore 77. A Complete List of Names of the Salmon Ponds on the Barrow and Nore Lore 78. The Old Traditional Story of Rose Mac Crone Lore 79. A Story Lore 80. A Story Lore 81. Men Going Astray on their Way Home Lore 82. The Co. Wexford "Nightingale" Lore 83. Evil Eye: A True Story Lore 84. A True Story Lore 85. Night Phantoms - Good and Bad Lore 86. A Marvelous Feat of Walking! Lore 87. Billy Heming and the Furze-Seeds Man, Glenmore Lore 88. Billy Fleming at Court Lore 89. Some Lingering Traditions of the Famine Lore 90. Yellow Meal Stirabout Stations Lore 91. Snatch of a Quaint Old Irish Song Lore 92. Death Lore 93. How Old Women Made Mead Lore 94. Some Old Customs Regarding 'the Habit' Lore 95. How the Touch of the Dead Takes off Birthmarks Lore 96. Death Lore 97. Wake Games Lore 98. Resting Places on Long Funeral Journeys Lore 99. Snuff at Wakes Lore 100. Where Cholera Victims are Buried Lore 101. Trap-Bottom Coffins - or Bottomless Coffins! Lore 102. Death - Practices after Burial Lore 103. Hidden Treasure! Lore 104. Horses Refuse to Draw Hearses! Lore 105. Some County Westmeath Death Practices Lore 106. The Báinín or Flannel Waistcoat and the Berrigan Trousers were in Vogue in the County Westmeath over 30 Years ago Lore 107. A Famous Self-Made Man of County Westmeath Lore 108. Tobar hAnnraoi Lore 109. The Old Church of Inch Lore 110. A True Ghost Story Lore 111. Substitutes for Tobacco used by the Old Men Lore 112. A True Story Lore 113. The Dutch Pipe Lore 114. Cholera Outbreaks in New Ross Lore 115. “Trap-bottom coffins were used in 1833 to cope with the numerous burials.” Lore 116. Outbreak of Smallpox in New Ross Lore 117. A Story of a Cholera Victim's Burial Lore 118. “Dr. Lang of Templeudigan cured Mrs. Lacy of the Maudlins of small pox.” Lore 119. “Only yesterday (19.1.1939) dear old Mrs. Turner of Lacken 3 miles or so from New Ross told me that her grandfather...” Lore 120. Death - a Story Connected with the Clothes of the Deceased Lore 121. It is not Right to Ask the Dying to Come and Tell where they were Lore 122. Birth - Birthmarks - The She-Briar Lore 123. Handsel Lore 124. A True Story of a Ghost Lore 125. Birthmarks Lore 126. Evil Eye Lore 127. Share Lore 128. Pedlars Lore 129. Miscellaneous Folklore Lore 130. The Old Women's Patched Pockets Lore 131. Hallow-Eve Games Lore 132. Flax-Growing Lore 133. Linsey Lore 134. Rush Candles Lore 135. Candles Made in Iron Moulds Lore 136. Druids' Altars Lore 137. Poulmounty Mills Lore 138. Castle Annaghs County Kilkenny Lore 139. Annaghs Castle Lore 140. A Castle Annaghs Ghost Story Lore 141. Toll Bridges Lore 142. A Funny Story about the 'Toll' Lore 143. Story of a Wreck Lore 144. A View of Rosbercon, New Ross Just Across the Bridge from Town Lore 145. “Mr. Sam Keogh of the Bacon Factory New Ross kept a fishing crew attached to the 'cellar'.” Lore 146. The River Barrow with the Salmon Ponds Marked Lore 147. Horses Lore 148. Working Horses Lore 149. Some Stories of Horses Lore 150. How the Pig was Killed and the Meat Saved in the Home Long ago! Lore 151. How to Kill a Pig Lore 152. A True Story Lore 153. Marriage Lore Lore 154. The Old Blind Woman's Prayer - 60 Years and More ago Lore 155. The Incessant Industry of the Grand Old Generation - 50-60 Years and Over ago! Lore 156. A Bad Spirit - A True Story Lore 157. Kilkenny Men Abú! Lore 158. A Deer ar Meylers Park, New Ross Lore 159. Skinning the Old Cow Lore 160. List of the Forges that Operated in South Wexford - South Kilkenny and South Carlow (New Ross Area) Long ago Lore 161. “This map opposite shows the relative positions of the Forges mentioned on pages 152 and 153...” Lore 162. A True Story Lore 163. Drowning the Shamrock Lore 164. True Stories of the Banshee Lore 165. “The Barrow fisehrmen told me that Mr. Victor O'Donovan Power the great writer of banshee and other ghost stories...” Lore 166. It is not Right to Frighten anyone - a True Story Lore 167. A True Story Lore 168. A True Story Lore 169. A Story Lore 170. A Snatch of an Old Song which used to be Sung 60 Years ago by Willie Kelly's Mother Lore 171. "Peggy the Ráth" from Galway Lore 172. A True Story of a Ráth Lore 173. A True Story Lore 174. A True Story Lore 175. A True Story Lore 176. Stories of Dogs' Sagacity - and Feeling - and Revenge! Lore 177. True Ghost Stories Lore 178. Story Lore 179. A True Story Lore 180. A Story and True Lore 181. A Story (True) Lore 182. Story of a Travelling Man's Hoard (True) Lore 183. Handy Women Lore 184. Hidden Treasure Lore 185. A Funny Story - and a True One Lore 186. Birthmarks Lore 187. Hidden Treasure Lore 188. The 'Banshee' Lore 189. Fraochán Picking Lore 190. The Dance at Poulmounty Lore 191. Cures Lore 192. Ballyanne - Lime Burning Lore 193. “Tom Lyons, a Galway boy, who came as a butler to Acheson's of the "Big House", Ballyanne, used to sing the following...” Lore 194. Ballyanne - 2 Miles from New Ross Lore 195. Old Sayings! Lore 196. Some Specimens of the Harmless Curse-Words used by the Grand Old Generation Lore 197. Old Sayings Lore 198. “Irish surely died a lingering death where it did die out in Ireland...” Lore 199. Raths Lore 200. Acheson of Ballyanne - 2 Miles from New Ross Lore 201. Protestant Ministers who Locked Cemetery Gates! Lore 202. Riddles Lore 203. True Ghost Story Lore 204. Miscellanuous Folklore Lore 205. “Jocksy Walsh of Roshercon New Ross, Co. Kilkenny side of the river, got a barrel of beer...” Lore 206. Retribution Lore 207. Rural Fireside Games Lore 208. “Cricket playing was a most prominent game in olden times and teams of cricketers...” Lore 209. “40 and more years ago there were no ready-made amusements such as the Cinema, Radio, etc...” Lore 210. This is the Third Long List of Games I Have Described - a List in Each Manuscript I Have Written Lore 211. On the Banks of Ballyanne Lore Mode: Magnify Zoom Jump to page / 212 Archival Reference The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0591, Page 144 Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD. See copyright details. Download On this page A True Story Share Share Post Date December 1938Item type LoreLanguage English Writing mode Handwritten Writing script Roman script Informant Liam Ó Ceallaigh
5. “A man was making his way across the bog of Ballykelly 4 miles S. from New Ross when two candles raised...” Lore
7. “A very old woman over 90 years (Mrs. Donovan Bawnmore) told me 13.12.'38 that it was the heavy rain and no stopping it that...” Lore
30. The Old Times "Staff of Life": Oaten Bread and Barley Meal Bread - The Bread of 70 or More Years ago! Lore
64. “Over 40 years ago the greatest shoals of herrings that were ever seen, since or before, were in the Barrow.” Lore
66. “The two greatest wrestlers ever Kilkenny produced were Mike Dunphy of Tincerane and Big 'Mickle' Lyng of the Rower.” Lore
106. The Báinín or Flannel Waistcoat and the Berrigan Trousers were in Vogue in the County Westmeath over 30 Years ago Lore
119. “Only yesterday (19.1.1939) dear old Mrs. Turner of Lacken 3 miles or so from New Ross told me that her grandfather...” Lore
145. “Mr. Sam Keogh of the Bacon Factory New Ross kept a fishing crew attached to the 'cellar'.” Lore
160. List of the Forges that Operated in South Wexford - South Kilkenny and South Carlow (New Ross Area) Long ago Lore
161. “This map opposite shows the relative positions of the Forges mentioned on pages 152 and 153...” Lore
165. “The Barrow fisehrmen told me that Mr. Victor O'Donovan Power the great writer of banshee and other ghost stories...” Lore
193. “Tom Lyons, a Galway boy, who came as a butler to Acheson's of the "Big House", Ballyanne, used to sing the following...” Lore
205. “Jocksy Walsh of Roshercon New Ross, Co. Kilkenny side of the river, got a barrel of beer...” Lore
209. “40 and more years ago there were no ready-made amusements such as the Cinema, Radio, etc...” Lore
210. This is the Third Long List of Games I Have Described - a List in Each Manuscript I Have Written Lore
A True Story Share Share Post Date December 1938Item type LoreLanguage English Writing mode Handwritten Writing script Roman script Informant Liam Ó Ceallaigh