(gan teideal)

“About two miles from Ballyshannon there is a big stone called "the two mile stone". It is said that Finn Mc Cumhall threw it from a mountain seven miles away...”

CBÉS 1027

Mrs Cleary, Thomas Cleary

Béal Átha Seanaidh, Co. Dhún na nGall

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“St Barron was the first Saint to live in the district. He had no place to build a church and he went to the king and asked him for some land on which to build a church...”

CBÉS 1027

Mrs Cleary, Thomas Cleary

Béal Átha Seanaidh, Co. Dhún na nGall

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“At the top of the big meadow, opposite the Convent of Mercy, Ballyshannon there is a very big stone. It is locally called "Cloch na n-Uan", but this is said to be an error...”

CBÉS 1027

Mrs Cleary, Thomas Cleary

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“In the locality of Ballyshannon are the "Kathleen Falls". The following is a short account of how they got their name...”

CBÉS 1027

Mrs Cleary, Thomas Cleary

Eas Chaitlín, Co. Dhún na nGall

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“Long ago people did not believe in doctors or vets. They used cures of their own. The man or woman who had the cure of the mumps, his or her father and mother had to be of the same name...”

CBÉS 1027

Mr T. Cleary, Thomas Cleary

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“Near Camlin Castle there is a chest of gold supposed to be hidden. One day a man named Gallagher tried to secure it...”

CBÉS 1027

Hugh Connelly, Thomas Cleary

Camlin, Co. Dhún na nGall

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“In the abbey there lived a man named Black. One night he went to the shore for a cart of wrack...”

CBÉS 1027

Mr O' Brien, Thomas Cleary

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“About a quarter of a mile from Ballyshannon there is a spot on the Erne known as the "Cathleen Falls." It is said that a girl names Kathleen lived there with her father. They owned a horse...”

CBÉS 1027

Michael Gavigan, Mrs Rose Gavigan

Eas Chaitlín, Co. Dhún na nGall

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“Some years ago there lived in Ballyshannon a local poet called Francy Daly. He was great friends with William Allingham...”

CBÉS 1027

Michael Gavigan, Mr James Gavigan

Béal Átha Seanaidh, Co. Dhún na nGall

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“There are two flax mills in the Abbey. In olden times these were owned and worked by the Mc Keown and Mc Nulty families...”

CBÉS 1027

Michael Gavigan, Mr James Gavigan

Béal Átha Seanaidh, Co. Dhún na nGall

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“At one time there were a number of tanneries in this town. At Portnason there were some and others were in Market Street...”

CBÉS 1027

Michael Gavigan, Mr James Gavigan

Béal Átha Seanaidh, Co. Dhún na nGall

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“In Catesby there us a cave and it is said if anyone goes into it he will never come out again...”

CBÉS 1027

Michael Gavigan, Mr James Gavigan

Béal Átha Seanaidh, Co. Dhún na nGall

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“The people of Ireland have many old customs One of them is this. At Easter the people used go out the country looking for eggs...”

CBÉS 1027

Michael Gavigan, Mr James Gavigan

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“Leading a child to a running stream with a donkey's halter is said to be a cure for the mumps. Giving a child the milk that a ferret leaves after it, is a cure for whooping-cough...”

CBÉS 1027

Mr John Curran, Mrs John Curran, Patrick Curran

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“Bog-bane boiled is a cure for boils. Mountain sage which is got in the mountains and boiled is a cure fr lung trouble...”

CBÉS 1027

Mr M. Curran, Patrick Curran

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“On the summit of the hill overlooking Finner graveyard is a large mound locally called Fliencter. Tradition tells us that a boy named Kerrigan was taken away by the fairies...”

CBÉS 1027

Mrs Mc Aleer, Patrick Mc Aleer

Fionnúir, Co. Dhún na nGall

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“In the Ross about 1 3/4 miles from Bundoran there is a fort with a bush growing on it. One day a man named Dan Loughlin was cutting it when an old woman appeared and told him to go home...”

CBÉS 1027

Mrs Mc Aleer, Patrick Mc Aleer

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“There is a field in Ardfarna and there are stray sods on it. A man named Jim Scallan was walking through the field when he walked on one of the stray sods...”

CBÉS 1027

Mrs Mc Aleer, Patrick Mc Aleer

Ardfarn, Co. Dhún na nGall

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“A man was coming home one night from playing cards. When he was crossing a field he walked on a stray sod and he couldn't get out of the field...”

CBÉS 1027

James Daly, Patrick Mc Aleer

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“In the Rock of Bundoran in a field (William Travers's) there is a large Mass stone with a holy-water font carved in it...”

CBÉS 1027

Patrick Mc Aleer, Peter Daly

Bun Dobhráin, Co. Dhún na nGall

Tras-scríbhinn