Scoil: Cuar an Chláir (C)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Old Practices of the Irish - The Custom of Taking the Butter May Eve (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   (a) About 90 years ago there lived a tailor in Dromelihy in a certain house. May eve the woman of the house had a churn made and she went to a neighbour of hers, leaving the tailor sewing away from himself. A man came in, in her absence and took a coal with him to light his pipe. As he did so the tailor got up and put another into an oven and covered it. The man came back a second and a third time repeating what he did at first. The tailor repeated his action likewise. The woman of the house soon returned and on going to the churn-barrel noticed she hadn’t as much as a bite of butter though there had been three big lumps of butter in it before she left. The tailor turned round and told her take the cover off the oven. There she found her three lumps of butter saved by the tailor when he counter-acted the actions of the man who wanted to bring the woman’s butter.

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

2. Old Practices of the Irish - The Taking Away of the Nice Girls

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Years ago there lived in Dromelihy a man named Martin Brown. As he was giving hay to his cattle one evening he noticed four horsemen coming towards him and with them was a riderless horse. He asked them to take him with them. He got astride the horse and off they went till they came to the mouth of the Shannon near Kilrush. Across they went into Kerry to a

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Sara Considine

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   16

   Seoladh

   Droim Oilche (Cunningham), Co. an Chláir

   Faisnéiseoir

   Denis Considine

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   54

   Seoladh

   Droim Oilche (Cunningham), Co. an Chláir