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The Main Manuscript Collection

This collection includes every aspect of the Irish oral tradition. New volumes are added on a regular basis. More information

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  1. (no title)

    “The North Wexford name for a leipreachán is loorakeen.”

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Edward Ó Toole, Frank Mac Donald

  2. (no title)

    “In the Barony of Forth and Bargy the corn-crake goes by the name of the "bane-crake"...”

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  3. (no title)

    “Mr. O'Toole told of practical jokes played on some men who were excavating a souterrain in Labnasy (the Bitch's Bed).”

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Edward Ó Toole

  4. (no title)

    “The Bow (pron. Beow) follows the O'Byrne family in Rathvilly.”

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  5. (no title)

    “A man called "Saybrook" was very miserly and "griping".”

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Edward Ó Toole

  6. (no title)

    “I questioned Mac Donald about the Famine traditions in Co. Carlow.”

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  7. (no title)

    “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.”

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  8. (no title)

    “The Cloneygall name for sticks is for the fire is bresna.”

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  9. (no title)

    “The práiscín is the local name for a sack-apron...”

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  10. (no title)

    “Stories about a priest who returns at night to say a Mass...”

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Edward Ó Toole, Frank Mac Donald

  11. (no title)

    “There is a story locally about a priest who married one of the Nixons of Ballyraheen.”

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  12. (no title)

    “The greatest battle fought during the Rebellion was the one at Horetown.”

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  13. (no title)

    “Talking about people who lived long lives...”

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  14. (no title)

    “Mac Donald himself was born in Ballyredmond...”

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  15. (no title)

    “Mac Donald told the story of a man who was coming home drunk one night up Ballyredmond Hill.”

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  16. (no title)

    “Patrick Kavanagh, miller, Ballyredmond has scores of Ghost stories, Mac Donald says.”

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  17. (no title)

    “When a child throws a fallen tooth over its right shoulder...”

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  18. (no title)

    “County Wexford is noted for the number of sprinf cars owned by the farmers.”

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald