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  1. Haunted Places

    “Long ago the Cullenstown road was said to be haunted...”

    CBÉ 0220

    Long ago the Cullenstown road was said to be haunted and few people would care to come along there in the dark. Every night about twelve o'clock a headless coach was seen coming along by the Chapel. It used to pass there was regular as the clock. No one knew the significance of it, nor, no one know what stopped it coming there those recent years.

  2. Béaloideas Ó Chill Uird, Co Chorcaí

    CBÉ 0220

    It's a long time ago now since we lived out in the Mountain at Toor.
    My brother Bill was about thirteen years of age at the time. There was a big wood in the place at that time and they were starting to cut it all down. So 'twas all sticks we used to burn, and sometimes the [?] turf from the hill.
    Wan day me mother told Bill to go down the wood and bring a [?] of sticks He had only to go about a hundred yards from the house.
    He went away and he was up on a tree getting a few tops off it and he thought he heard someone whistling at him. So he came down and left the tops hanging on the tree. When he came down he looked around and he saw no wan. He gathered a few sticks, he didn't bring much, and came home, and left the tops hanging.

  3. Wake Customs of the Present Day in Co. Wexford

    CBÉ 0221

    clay in to the grave. This gives everyone present a chance of burying the corpse. Then the grave is is filled up by the live or the men, and a grassy sod is placed on top of the grave and then all knelled down and say a few prayers, and the job is over.

  4. (gan teideal)

    “There was a man wan time and he was stuck for a few bob...”

    CBÉ 0221

    There was a man wan time and he was stuck for a few bob and somebody told him that if he prayed to St. Anthony, he would send it to him. So he went to the Church and prayed away until night. Somebody came along and got into the Church behind him and rolled a half-crown along the floor. He got out of the pew

  5. (gan teideal)

    “There was a man once who had a great farm of land..”

    CBÉ 0221

    me a few shillings in the week Now you have come back to me and do you think that I will go work for you". "Oh yes you will and I will give you a shilling of a rise" . I'll tell you what I'll do" says Mike you give me two shillings of a rise and pay me also for the time I was idle, and I'll go back to you." Tom Walsh do so and was glad to do it.

  6. The Drummer of Hacketstown

    CBÉ 0265

    the bed tick and they drove the bayonets down through the tick and his body and threw him out through the top window at her heels where she was standing a few steps outside the kitchen door on the flags.

  7. Fairy Funeral

    CBÉ 0265

    One day a man was mowing in the Mullawn and he saw a funeral going up the road & there was only a few carrying the coffin & he went over to help but he was not long carrying the coffin when he was put on his head in the ditch & when he got up there was no sign of anything.

  8. The Woman who Was Taken by the Fairies

    CBÉ 0312

    There was a woman that lived down in Kiltartan, and she wasn't so long married - about twelve months - when there was a young daughter born. And the mother died. So the father's people brought the child to rear. In a few nights after the girl of the house got up, to warm a drink for the child. So she had the milk down when the door op-

  9. Maud and Damer

    CBÉ 0407

    According to M Renehan's account the wealth and treasures of the monasteries and convents of Cashel were hidden in a great many barrels of tallow. Damer only bought a few at first, but when he found what he had he come back and bought the lot of them. He was able then.

  10. Ghosts

    CBÉ 0460

    that his nerves were completely on edge and that he would want proper attention or he would never recover. Well that gave us us a bit of a sell and we did our best for him and to tell the truth he was seven weeks and a few days in the bed, and then he got up and then he told us all about it. Well he certainly got a fright that he will never forget in all his life.

  11. (gan teideal)

    “There was a phriesht livin' down the counthry at wan time, an its a long, long time ago, an' he had a house-keeper in his house...”

    CBÉ 0463

    There was a phreisht livin’ down the counthry at wan time, Aw it's a long, long time ago, an’ he had a house-keeper in his house, an’ a little boy that ushed ta run messages for him. Now the phreisht had a few cows, an’ they was always noted for bein’ great milkers, but for some time they began to fail in the milk, an’ the house-keeper could get little or no butther off it, when she’d churn, so she was gettin’ very conthrary in herself. his day however, she said the little boy out on a message, an’ she tould him on peril o’ his life

  12. (gan teideal)

    “There is a "strae" on the mountains of Geevagh a short distance from Mr Lynnn's coal-mines.”

    CBÉ 0463

    how he thried to think or to stheady himself he couldn't find his way to the pit-head.
    He was thravellin all day until about four o'clock an' then suddenly he though o' himself, an' he tuk off his coat, an' turned it inside out, an he said a few prayers, an' then walked on another bit, until he began to get tired, an' sat down. He was only sittin down to kindle his pipe a few minutes, when, he heard the whistle that sounded from the engine.
    He jumped up is quick is he could, an' ran for his life to the pit head. The men war jusht quittin when he landed there.
    Pat Thady (Pat Gaffrey) the underground manager of the pit, said that it is only certain families that are put astray.
    Tommie Micky Andy, young Micheal's Lom (Conlon) said that peopleo' the name O'Cullen that are usually put astray, and there are plenty O Cullens on the Geevagh mountains.

  13. (gan teideal)

    “I'm a great ould seanachaidhe, am I, well ta tell ye the thruth, girleen, it reminds me o' ould times when ye come in an' sit here...”

    CBÉ 0485

    I'm a great ould seanachaidhe, am I, well ta tell ye the thruth, girleen, it reminds me o' ould times when ye come in an' sit here, an' we sthart spinnin' the yarns, sure God help us I'd never be tired lishtenin ta them or tired tellin them either. What time o' night is it?, ora glory be ta God its twelve o'clock, time for an ould ninety year ould ta be in bed, but sure fot harm Ihave a few more ta tell ye before ye go, so I might is well, be hurryin' up wit them. I meant ta tell

  14. (gan teideal)

    “There was a man atin' his dinner in a hotel wan day...”

    CBÉ 0485

    a few bites taken out o' it be that time, an' he was tearin' away at it, thryin ta get a few more when she sez agin ta him "Well how are ye enjoyin yer dinner now".
    He turned round on his chair, an' he looked up at her, an' this is fot he said
    "O God above look down wit grace
    Upon this leg of Mutton
    This day week twas nice an' sweet
    But today Be Cripes its rotten."

  15. A Cure for Corns

    CBÉ 0485

    A cure for corns- Steep ivy leaves in vinegar for a few days, then place the leaf over the corn. Keep renewing them until the corn is drawn out.

  16. (gan teideal)

    “In oulden times beggars war very plentiful in this disthricht...”

    CBÉ 0485

    In oulden times beggars war very plentiful in this disthrict, there war several women, but there war a few men is well, an' the men principally made their livin, on getherin rags an' feathers, an' skins, an' so forth. Some o' the besht known around here ushed to come to the cross roads o' Baldwin, on appointed days, an' they made their collection there, sometimes thould women ushed ta bring their geese along wit them an' the beggar men 'id pluck them, an' give them something for the feathers, it mightn't be always money maybe some useful article, that they'd give them, an

  17. John Doyle and the Poteen

    CBÉ 0106

    The police got a fright then, when they saw the horse dying, and didn't know what to do. One of them said he would run back to John Doyle's house, and get John to take the horse off the road for a few shillings and bury him, as they didn't know anybody else in the neighbourhood. The others consented and he went back to John's house. He found John standing at the stable looking into the empty tub. The policeman told him the story from beginning to end. John wasn't a bit surprised for when he found the tub empty he knew it was the horse that drank it. "Begob" says he to himself "I'd better get that horse away from them as soon as I can for if them buckoes get the smell of the poteen off

  18. John Doyle and the Poteen

    CBÉ 0106

    got up and when he did the skin fell off him. Poor John kept looking on at all this with his mouth and eyes open, and who would wonder at him, and he looking at at poor horse waling around and no skin on him. He didn't know what to do with the horse now. He was considering would it be the best to shoot him when he saw the horse beginning to graze. This decided him. He put the skin on the horse again, but when he had it on he had no cords or ropes to tie it on, and of course it wouldn't stop on by itself. He went and got a few long briars and split them and put a couple of them around the horse's belly and tied him around the head with another. Then he brought home the horse and let him out in the field. He went out the next day to take the briars off the horse,

  19. Will-o'-the-wisp

    CBÉ 0106

    and had a pair of horns and a tail. The black man noticed the smith getting the fright. "You needn't be a bit afraid of me" says he "I've come to do you no hard" "What have you come for then" says the smith. "I'll tell you" says the black man. I know you are in a bad way at present and would give anything to make money. Well I will give you plenty of money, more money than you'll ever be able to spend" says the black man "on one condition alone." "What is that" asked the smith "that you will come with me at the end of ten years." The smith was silent for a few minutes and then finally answered. "It's a bargain" for he was delighted to get money on any condition. "Very good" says the black man "I hope that you'll have a good

  20. Schools

    CBÉ 0189

    The school master used be very poor in them days. The children used bring a penny every Monday morning and very few of them were able to afford it.
    The people around used, in turns, give the teacher his dinner every day they used have books, called, first book, second book, third book and fourth book. in my young days there were people able to speak a good share of Irish but I don't think they'd be able to keep up a conversation in it.