Story

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Mr Patrick Dermody

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Story

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Mr Peter Comisky

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Story

“In this part of the parish of Gowna there lived a young girl named Mary Brady who say a banshee.”

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Mr Peter Cumiskey

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Riddles

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(gan teideal)

“A long time ago there lived in Derrycassan a man named Sam Simey. At that time there was no lane in the townland but paths leading from place to place.”

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Thomas Donoghue

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“In early times there lived a man named William Farrell in the hollow under Brian Donoghue's house in Derrycassan, along the lane.”

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Thomas Donoghue

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“There is a townland in this parish called Mullinroe and there is a fort in the middle of the townland.”

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Mr Berny Reilly

An Mullán Rua, Co. an Longfoirt

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(gan teideal)

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Mr Patrick Flood

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Weather-Lore

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(gan teideal)

“There was a bad landlord named White who owned the townland of Leitrim.”

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Mr Patrick Flood

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“A member of their family named John Kiernan, who also lived in Leitrim and in the homestead, still owned by the family.”

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Mr Joe Kiernan

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1798

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William Kiernan

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“There is a fort on the lands of Mr John Kiernan in Toome. A long time ago a man named Michael Brady of Leitrim cut some bushes in the fort.”

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Mr Joe Kiernan

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Cures

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Mr William Kiernan

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Another Heart Cure

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Mr Joe Kiernan

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“In the townland of Toone not quite 50 years ago lived a man named Rory O' Rorke but better known by the name of ''Ody''.”

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Mr William Kiernan

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“Thomas Kiernan of Leitrim was a very industrious man in his time. He lived in Corbawn now better known as Leitrim about 150 years ago or more.”

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Mr Joseph Kiernan

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The Rose Well

“There is a disease that both man and beast suffer from locally called the ''the Rose'' because the portion of the body affected becomes so inflamed that the colour of it becomes as red as a rose.”

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Mr Bernard Reilly

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Old Pat's Will

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Mr Joseph Kiernan

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Old Prayers

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