Imleabhar: CBÉ 0608 (Cuid 02) Dáta 1939Bailitheoir John O'Donoghue Suíomh Cill Gharbháin, Co. Chiarraí Liosta Brabhsáil Teidil (107) 1. Death and Disease Seanchas 2. “The following poem, sung to the same air...” Seanchas 3. “I was told a story by Mary Ellen Gallivan of Lomanaugh about an uncle of hers, O'Sullivan (Owen) of Lower Cummeen.” Seanchas 4. “Two young men named Buckley and Sweeney were very fond of poaching game, and one night after a tiring day's travelling...” Seanchas 5. “A man named Ouliveen Lynch of Gorralethir, Morley's Bridge, had a daughter married to Robert Gaine...” Seanchas 6. “Some forty or fifty years ago there lived at Meelick a woman called Mary Doyle who was said to go about in company with the Good People.” Seanchas 7. “My grandmother believed in the return of the dead. She always swept the hearth clean with a bunch of heather...” Seanchas 8. “There is a family called O'Sullivan (McCann) living at the foot of Mangerton Mountain, and when a death is to...” Seanchas 9. “About a year ago a middle-aged man named Jerry Dineen of Inchees (whom I knew well) went up for the night with...” Seanchas 10. “A young man named Ned Sweeney died about a month ago. I heard this day that his first cousin is feeling very...” Seanchas 11. “When people here find occasion to speak of a dead person, they pray for his soul.” Seanchas 12. “I remember my mother telling of a dream she had about an awful big coffin.” Seanchas 13. “I had once the distinction of having been mistaken for one of the Good People without having the slightest intention of representing myself as one of them.” Seanchas 14. “My grandmother could speak Irish as fluently as English and she was deeply versed in ancient lore. ” Seanchas 15. “There is a man living a few miles from here whom we call Big Denis.” Seanchas 16. “The celebrated Mary Doyle, local ambassador to fairy-land, who was consulted in all cases of serious diseases...” Seanchas 17. “I got the following story from a woman in Kilgarvan some years ago. I'll re-tell it here in the way the old people would do it...” Seanchas 18. “There was a family living in Lomanaugh, too, but because some of their descendants still live there and are close relations and friends of my own...” Seanchas 19. “By far the most romantic figure among the charm workers was Pahd Bwee (Lynch), a wandering musician who flourished in these valleys some fifty years ago or more.” Seanchas 20. “There is a field in a neighbour's farm near us and it goes by the very poetic name of Gaurdeen Owen na Knapee Bawn.” Seanchas 21. “Whenever the young asked the old people for the reason why the pookees don't appear so often now as they used to...” Seanchas 22. “Shaun Flynn's wife, known locally as Molly Vaun, was a great friend of my Grandmother's.” Seanchas 23. “Once an old man came in the middle of the night for the habit to put on his son who was said to be dying...” Seanchas 24. “There are no amusements of any kind carried on in wakes in this locality.” Seanchas 25. “On the day of my grandmother's funeral a crowd of people gathered into the house and about the yard.” Seanchas 26. “There was a man named Tim Dineen living in this parish some years ago.” Seanchas 27. “Corpses are always laid in the grave with the feet towards the east...” Seanchas 28. “I often heard my grandmother speak of "a bad wind" in which the Good People went about.” Seanchas 29. O'Reilly's Penance Seanchas 30. Four Yellow Boards and I Seanchas 31. “There is an old belief that if a person is murdered and the murderer happens to stoop over the corpse of the victim it will spatter blood over him.” Seanchas 32. “In the matter of laments for the dead I will now give one which came directly from my heart while I worked...” Seanchas 33. Lament for John and Tom O'Connor, who were Murdered on September the 9th, 1922, at Kenmare. (At the Graveyard). Seanchas 34. “There is a belief that it is unlucky to bring a corpse to a dwelling house.” Seanchas 35. “There is a lovely old Irish song called in English "The Nice Girl Milking her Cow", which is said to have been cursed by a priest...” Seanchas 36. “Once upon a time" it is said that Kilgarvan village was startled out of its wits by the sight of a human skull coming of its own accord, it seemed...” Seanchas 37. In the Lone Hours of Night Seanchas 38. “My Grandmother used to tell me that death was "a small little black maneen" who went about the world choking people.” Seanchas 39. Death and Disease (Continued) Seanchas 40. “A little shower of blood is said to fall now and again on members of Bill Gaine's family.” Seanchas 41. “Bill has a brother named Pats. He was a great huntsman in his day and once his dogs tracked something which ran into the two lisses at Lounihan.” Seanchas 42. “A friend of mine named Pat Reidy from near Kilgarvan village was talking to me some years ago at a house in which it was the custom to play cards.” Seanchas 43. “The young people are fond of dancing "The Highland Fling" to a tune called "Some Say the Devil's Dead".” Seanchas 44. “A big black dog from the other world is said to follow certain people by night.” Seanchas 45. “Animals play a large part in the lore of the people, and since the old people, especially the old women, have a great affection for them when they are...” Seanchas 46. The Old Kerry Cow that Escaped from Roscrea. Seanchas 47. “When a neighbour or a relation dies, the old people will not allow any music to be played in their houses or a dance to be held, out of "respect for the dead".” Seanchas 48. “My grandmother used to tell me that "the corpse makes the finest medicine going" and doctors were always anxious to get one for the purpose.” Seanchas 49. The Following Methods were Adopted for the Cure of Some Diseases: Seanchas 50. “In the matter of religious cures we are not behind time in this parish.” Seanchas 51. “The people have great faith in religious medals.” Seanchas 52. “The old people believed that a hazel stick was a powerful defence against attack from the pookees and were fond of offering one to visitors if they were departing late at night.” Seanchas 53. “Flannel was often coloured by a home-made dye which the old women picked off the rocks.” Seanchas 54. “When two or more people are to be buried on the same day we are all curious to know which of them is the last...” Seanchas 55. “It is said that if a person happens to fall in a graveyard it is a sign that he or she will be the next to go in there as a corpse.” Seanchas 56. “When a grave sinks it is a sign that a death will soon occur in the family to whom it belongs.” Seanchas 57. “The tomb of the O'Sullivan Christians in Kilgarvan graveyard is peculiar from the fact that it opens directly into the street...” Seanchas 58. “Whenever a member of the O'Sullivan Caols happens to die a door in a great rock in The Bird mountain is said to open and roar out like thunder.” Seanchas 59. “An account of how a dead man returned to admit his own guilt and save the name of a young priest...” Seanchas 60. “Old people fear the cold of March and expect death in that month more than any other.” Seanchas 61. “My grandmother used to dislike the idea of disturbing beds from their positions near the walls.” Seanchas 62. “There is a man living in Kilgarvan village at present wo is said to have power to cure certain ones such as ringworm, farcy, etc.” Seanchas 63. “Since I wrote about Pahd Bwee I learned that when he did cures he used to say to the people about him: "I'll go to hell for this.” Seanchas 64. “The old people always said that "Collin is never without a light at night.” Seanchas 65. “My grandmother used to tell me that it wasn't right to look into a mirror at night "or if you do you might see something bad and not yourself at all.” Seanchas 66. “Two other families came from Kilmurray, Co. Cork, with my great-grandfather.” Seanchas 67. “Jude Shea told me the following story about Kilmurray graveyard.” Seanchas 68. “The old women took a great pride in their dark blue hood-cloaks, hence this one's warning that the receiver was to be careful of it.” Seanchas 69. “Dan Sweeney of Glenlough, now over seventy years of age, (nephew to the man who head the hair was said to have fallen from), told me that a very long time ago...” Seanchas 70. “The dead are believed to come back when they have left some work undone, some penance unperformed or some promise unfulfilled.” Seanchas 71. “When men get their hair cut in this parish they are careful to gather it up from the ground and put it away into a hole in a wall or ditch...” Seanchas 72. “Whenever an article of food fell from a person's hand accidentally at the table, when tea was spilled...” Seanchas 73. “If a young fellow came into a house with a spade on his shoulder the old people warned him not to do so again or else he'd grow no more.” Seanchas 74. “When ordering a coffin the old people usually measureed the corpse with the whip used for driving the horse...” Seanchas 75. “Jack of the Lantern is believed to have been a spirit not good enough for Heaven nor bad enough for Hell, so his fate is to be kept out of both.” Seanchas 76. “When travelling over these moors by night one sometimes comes across a patch of phosphorescent light in the gutter.” Seanchas 77. “Parish priests make it their business to stop night dances in the parish. They are fond of tracing local scandals to them.” Seanchas 78. “When the distance from the dead person's home is long the coffin is usually put on a common cart and tied there with ropes...” Seanchas 79. “I have often heard it said that the reason why no more spirits are seen is that the people of long ago were very wicked...” Seanchas 80. “Some of the old people used to keep a cock in the kitchen as protection against the bad spirits...” Seanchas 81. “Cattle and horses were also kept inside in the kitchens.” Seanchas 82. Social Grades Seanchas 83. “1. The parish priest rules the whole parish with the exception of two or three protestant families.” Seanchas 84. “2. The medical doctor comes next to the priest in the estimation of the people, but the respect which he gets is of a more hearty and genuine nature...” Seanchas 85. “3. National School teachers are respected generally by all classes, but of course not always loved by their pupils.” Seanchas 86. “4. The Civic Guards are respected according to the way in which they act towards the people.” Seanchas 87. “5. The shopkeepers, as already explianed are nearly all either farmers' sons come in from the hills or the sons of people who came in during the previous generation...” Seanchas 88. “6. The farmers make up about four fifths of the population. Their holdings consist of from fifteen to forty acres of tilling land as an average.” Seanchas 89. “7. The Labourers form the lowest rank in the social grading. They are usually the sons of small farmers who go about working for others when the work at their own homes is done.” Seanchas 90. Marriages Seanchas 91. “Bill Gaine told me the following story of how a match was made for a young man who had never worn a shoe or stocking...” Seanchas 92. “Many of the couples to be married never see each other until the match is made for them.” Seanchas 93. “I will now record a song which was written in the last generation by a poet called Johnie Norah Aedh (Twoomey)...” Seanchas 94. “When the speakers would come to the house of a young girl it was usual for her to go in hiding from shyness.” Seanchas 95. “When it becomes known that a marriage has been arranged and that a wedding party will be held in the night-time, the young men who have not been invited...” Seanchas 96. “There are some young men who wish to remain bachelors and yet enjoy the idea of letting the match-makers get busy on their behalf.” Seanchas 97. “Up to about the end of the first quarter of the present century the wedding party used to begin at the bride's home early in the morning.” Seanchas 98. “There is one man still living in this parish who completely ignored the conventions and customs following marriages.” Seanchas 99. To Return to Weddings: Seanchas 100. “Marriages usually take place in Shrove.” Seanchas 101. “The young and old couples often disagree when living in the one house, so there is now a part of the marriage agreement which provides for such an emergency...” Seanchas 102. Births Seanchas 103. “Midwifes attended at births in olden times and until within the past twenty years or so.” Seanchas 104. “A newly-married couple must not make the cradle themselves nor get others to make one for their first child but must borrow one...” Seanchas 105. “When referring to a coming birth in a family the neighbours say of the mother when conversing: "This one above will soon fall asunder" or...” Seanchas 106. “When a baby was born in the last generation it was customary for the mother's friends to come to visit her, bringing usually a bottle of whiskey,...” Seanchas 107. Ancient Monuments Seanchas Modh: Formhéadú Zúmáil Léim chuig leathanach / 478 Tagairt chartlainne An Príomhbhailiúchán Lámhscríbhinní, Imleabhar 0608, Leathanach 411 Íomhá agus sonraí © Cnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann, UCD. Féach sonraí cóipchirt. Íoslódáil Ar an leathanach seo (gan teideal) (ar lean) “Jude Shea told me the following story about Kilmurray graveyard.” Roinn Roinn Postáil Dáta 1939Cineál míre SeanchasTeanga Béarla Modh scríbhneoireachta Lámhscríofa Script scríbhneoireachta Cló Rómhánach Faisnéiseoir Jude Shea
3. “I was told a story by Mary Ellen Gallivan of Lomanaugh about an uncle of hers, O'Sullivan (Owen) of Lower Cummeen.” Seanchas
4. “Two young men named Buckley and Sweeney were very fond of poaching game, and one night after a tiring day's travelling...” Seanchas
5. “A man named Ouliveen Lynch of Gorralethir, Morley's Bridge, had a daughter married to Robert Gaine...” Seanchas
6. “Some forty or fifty years ago there lived at Meelick a woman called Mary Doyle who was said to go about in company with the Good People.” Seanchas
7. “My grandmother believed in the return of the dead. She always swept the hearth clean with a bunch of heather...” Seanchas
8. “There is a family called O'Sullivan (McCann) living at the foot of Mangerton Mountain, and when a death is to...” Seanchas
9. “About a year ago a middle-aged man named Jerry Dineen of Inchees (whom I knew well) went up for the night with...” Seanchas
10. “A young man named Ned Sweeney died about a month ago. I heard this day that his first cousin is feeling very...” Seanchas
13. “I had once the distinction of having been mistaken for one of the Good People without having the slightest intention of representing myself as one of them.” Seanchas
14. “My grandmother could speak Irish as fluently as English and she was deeply versed in ancient lore. ” Seanchas
16. “The celebrated Mary Doyle, local ambassador to fairy-land, who was consulted in all cases of serious diseases...” Seanchas
17. “I got the following story from a woman in Kilgarvan some years ago. I'll re-tell it here in the way the old people would do it...” Seanchas
18. “There was a family living in Lomanaugh, too, but because some of their descendants still live there and are close relations and friends of my own...” Seanchas
19. “By far the most romantic figure among the charm workers was Pahd Bwee (Lynch), a wandering musician who flourished in these valleys some fifty years ago or more.” Seanchas
20. “There is a field in a neighbour's farm near us and it goes by the very poetic name of Gaurdeen Owen na Knapee Bawn.” Seanchas
21. “Whenever the young asked the old people for the reason why the pookees don't appear so often now as they used to...” Seanchas
22. “Shaun Flynn's wife, known locally as Molly Vaun, was a great friend of my Grandmother's.” Seanchas
23. “Once an old man came in the middle of the night for the habit to put on his son who was said to be dying...” Seanchas
25. “On the day of my grandmother's funeral a crowd of people gathered into the house and about the yard.” Seanchas
28. “I often heard my grandmother speak of "a bad wind" in which the Good People went about.” Seanchas
31. “There is an old belief that if a person is murdered and the murderer happens to stoop over the corpse of the victim it will spatter blood over him.” Seanchas
32. “In the matter of laments for the dead I will now give one which came directly from my heart while I worked...” Seanchas
33. Lament for John and Tom O'Connor, who were Murdered on September the 9th, 1922, at Kenmare. (At the Graveyard). Seanchas
35. “There is a lovely old Irish song called in English "The Nice Girl Milking her Cow", which is said to have been cursed by a priest...” Seanchas
36. “Once upon a time" it is said that Kilgarvan village was startled out of its wits by the sight of a human skull coming of its own accord, it seemed...” Seanchas
38. “My Grandmother used to tell me that death was "a small little black maneen" who went about the world choking people.” Seanchas
40. “A little shower of blood is said to fall now and again on members of Bill Gaine's family.” Seanchas
41. “Bill has a brother named Pats. He was a great huntsman in his day and once his dogs tracked something which ran into the two lisses at Lounihan.” Seanchas
42. “A friend of mine named Pat Reidy from near Kilgarvan village was talking to me some years ago at a house in which it was the custom to play cards.” Seanchas
43. “The young people are fond of dancing "The Highland Fling" to a tune called "Some Say the Devil's Dead".” Seanchas
45. “Animals play a large part in the lore of the people, and since the old people, especially the old women, have a great affection for them when they are...” Seanchas
47. “When a neighbour or a relation dies, the old people will not allow any music to be played in their houses or a dance to be held, out of "respect for the dead".” Seanchas
48. “My grandmother used to tell me that "the corpse makes the finest medicine going" and doctors were always anxious to get one for the purpose.” Seanchas
52. “The old people believed that a hazel stick was a powerful defence against attack from the pookees and were fond of offering one to visitors if they were departing late at night.” Seanchas
53. “Flannel was often coloured by a home-made dye which the old women picked off the rocks.” Seanchas
54. “When two or more people are to be buried on the same day we are all curious to know which of them is the last...” Seanchas
55. “It is said that if a person happens to fall in a graveyard it is a sign that he or she will be the next to go in there as a corpse.” Seanchas
56. “When a grave sinks it is a sign that a death will soon occur in the family to whom it belongs.” Seanchas
57. “The tomb of the O'Sullivan Christians in Kilgarvan graveyard is peculiar from the fact that it opens directly into the street...” Seanchas
58. “Whenever a member of the O'Sullivan Caols happens to die a door in a great rock in The Bird mountain is said to open and roar out like thunder.” Seanchas
59. “An account of how a dead man returned to admit his own guilt and save the name of a young priest...” Seanchas
61. “My grandmother used to dislike the idea of disturbing beds from their positions near the walls.” Seanchas
62. “There is a man living in Kilgarvan village at present wo is said to have power to cure certain ones such as ringworm, farcy, etc.” Seanchas
63. “Since I wrote about Pahd Bwee I learned that when he did cures he used to say to the people about him: "I'll go to hell for this.” Seanchas
65. “My grandmother used to tell me that it wasn't right to look into a mirror at night "or if you do you might see something bad and not yourself at all.” Seanchas
68. “The old women took a great pride in their dark blue hood-cloaks, hence this one's warning that the receiver was to be careful of it.” Seanchas
69. “Dan Sweeney of Glenlough, now over seventy years of age, (nephew to the man who head the hair was said to have fallen from), told me that a very long time ago...” Seanchas
70. “The dead are believed to come back when they have left some work undone, some penance unperformed or some promise unfulfilled.” Seanchas
71. “When men get their hair cut in this parish they are careful to gather it up from the ground and put it away into a hole in a wall or ditch...” Seanchas
72. “Whenever an article of food fell from a person's hand accidentally at the table, when tea was spilled...” Seanchas
73. “If a young fellow came into a house with a spade on his shoulder the old people warned him not to do so again or else he'd grow no more.” Seanchas
74. “When ordering a coffin the old people usually measureed the corpse with the whip used for driving the horse...” Seanchas
75. “Jack of the Lantern is believed to have been a spirit not good enough for Heaven nor bad enough for Hell, so his fate is to be kept out of both.” Seanchas
76. “When travelling over these moors by night one sometimes comes across a patch of phosphorescent light in the gutter.” Seanchas
77. “Parish priests make it their business to stop night dances in the parish. They are fond of tracing local scandals to them.” Seanchas
78. “When the distance from the dead person's home is long the coffin is usually put on a common cart and tied there with ropes...” Seanchas
79. “I have often heard it said that the reason why no more spirits are seen is that the people of long ago were very wicked...” Seanchas
80. “Some of the old people used to keep a cock in the kitchen as protection against the bad spirits...” Seanchas
83. “1. The parish priest rules the whole parish with the exception of two or three protestant families.” Seanchas
84. “2. The medical doctor comes next to the priest in the estimation of the people, but the respect which he gets is of a more hearty and genuine nature...” Seanchas
85. “3. National School teachers are respected generally by all classes, but of course not always loved by their pupils.” Seanchas
86. “4. The Civic Guards are respected according to the way in which they act towards the people.” Seanchas
87. “5. The shopkeepers, as already explianed are nearly all either farmers' sons come in from the hills or the sons of people who came in during the previous generation...” Seanchas
88. “6. The farmers make up about four fifths of the population. Their holdings consist of from fifteen to forty acres of tilling land as an average.” Seanchas
89. “7. The Labourers form the lowest rank in the social grading. They are usually the sons of small farmers who go about working for others when the work at their own homes is done.” Seanchas
91. “Bill Gaine told me the following story of how a match was made for a young man who had never worn a shoe or stocking...” Seanchas
92. “Many of the couples to be married never see each other until the match is made for them.” Seanchas
93. “I will now record a song which was written in the last generation by a poet called Johnie Norah Aedh (Twoomey)...” Seanchas
94. “When the speakers would come to the house of a young girl it was usual for her to go in hiding from shyness.” Seanchas
95. “When it becomes known that a marriage has been arranged and that a wedding party will be held in the night-time, the young men who have not been invited...” Seanchas
96. “There are some young men who wish to remain bachelors and yet enjoy the idea of letting the match-makers get busy on their behalf.” Seanchas
97. “Up to about the end of the first quarter of the present century the wedding party used to begin at the bride's home early in the morning.” Seanchas
98. “There is one man still living in this parish who completely ignored the conventions and customs following marriages.” Seanchas
101. “The young and old couples often disagree when living in the one house, so there is now a part of the marriage agreement which provides for such an emergency...” Seanchas
103. “Midwifes attended at births in olden times and until within the past twenty years or so.” Seanchas
104. “A newly-married couple must not make the cradle themselves nor get others to make one for their first child but must borrow one...” Seanchas
105. “When referring to a coming birth in a family the neighbours say of the mother when conversing: "This one above will soon fall asunder" or...” Seanchas
106. “When a baby was born in the last generation it was customary for the mother's friends to come to visit her, bringing usually a bottle of whiskey,...” Seanchas
(gan teideal) (ar lean) “Jude Shea told me the following story about Kilmurray graveyard.” Roinn Roinn Postáil Dáta 1939Cineál míre SeanchasTeanga Béarla Modh scríbhneoireachta Lámhscríofa Script scríbhneoireachta Cló Rómhánach Faisnéiseoir Jude Shea