School: Carnán, Fedamore
- Location:
- Carnane, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Gliasáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0517, Page 118
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Carnán, Fedamore
- XML Page 118
- XML “Ballynagarde 1 Mile from Carnane School”
- XML “Ballynagarde”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)The pigs head went into jelly in the cold water. A work man of Mr Crokers washed sheep in this well and the well changed places. People used to pay rounds and still do to this well. The water is supposed to cure sore eyes.
- Ballinagarde.
The Great House Ballinagarde now derelict was up to a few years ago the beautiful residence of the Croker family. It is said that when one of the family, an old man was dying he exclaimed “Oh Sweet Ballinagarde how shall I leave you” and on his clergyman telling him he was going to a better country, replied “I doubt it”. Readers of Knocknagow may recollect this passage when Summerville the landlord of the place made the same remark to the clergyman about Knocknagow. Kickham must have had Croker as his original for the statement for throughout Limerick, Tipperary and Clare it has been custom from time immemorial on a person making a doubtful statement, for the listener to reply “ I doubt it says Croker”.
