(no title) “Old people belived that a person dying away from their old home....” CBÉ 1011 Lore July 1946 Seumas Ó Riardon
(no title) “Life is a strange thing. The birth and death of a human being is governed by the tides and the sun.” CBÉ 1011 Lore July 1946 Seumas Ó Riardon
(no title) “I knew a poor old woman that lived around here as honest a poor creature as ever drew breath.” CBÉ 1011 Lore September 1946 Mrs T. Coughlan
(no title) “My father - God rest him - used offin tell us about a family that lived in the 'mountain' long ago.” CBÉ 1011 Lore September 1946 Mrs P. Crowley
(no title) “There was a man and his wife lived over there in the "Ballimanach", They were constantly rowing.” CBÉ 1011 Lore July 1946 Jerome Crowley
(no title) “The ould people would live and die talking about the good men of their own time, and the way they would describe the men.” CBÉ 1011 Lore September 1946 Micheal O'Driscoll
(no title) “The best man I ever knew was a man that lived down there in the town of Bandon...” CBÉ 1011 Lore July 1946 Seumas Ó Riardon
(no title) “Mind you, down through the generations it was very, very hard to get old people to change...” CBÉ 1011 Lore July 1946 Jerome Crowley
(no title) “People long 'go had curious ways for talking about others.” CBÉ 1011 Lore September 1946 Tim Coughlan
(no title) “Foxy is foolish, fair is the next, brown is becoming, but black is the best".” CBÉ 1011 Lore September 1946 Mrs P. Crowley
(no title) “Go soon a Dia linn, boy, but wan of the men that's gone” CBÉ 1011 Lore September 1946 Donal McCarthy
(no title) “The best man that ever stood this part of the country was Barnán (Bernard).” CBÉ 1011 Lore 1946 Patrick Leahy
(no title) “This place is only like every place around, the people have changed.” CBÉ 1011 Lore September 1946 James O'Mahony
(no title) “Wisha may God be with the old people. What changes the years bring.” CBÉ 1011 Lore August 1946 Mary Crowley