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“Roan Og's well or Eoin Og's well or St John's well is in Ballea a quarter of a mile outside Carrigaline.”
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Lelia Mc Sweeney, Margaret Connor
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The Schools’ Collection
This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s. More information
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“There is a well outside Ringaskiddy, called "Tobar Lic" from which the local people take their supply of spring water.”
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Bridget Deasy, Mary Leahy
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“The Cooney brothers Mick and Billy were nailers in Carrigaline.”
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Frank Mc Sweeney, Margaret Connor
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“Up to the year 1840 there were three bakeries in Carrigaline, Connor's, Cantillon's and Coleman's.”
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Billy Drivers, Margaret Connor
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“In Ringaskiddy candles were made from rushes and tallow.”
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Bridget Kearney, Maisie Mansfield
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“Boats at Ringaskiddy in former years were made of a framework of twigs covered over with hides.”
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Denis O' Mahony, Joan O' Mahony
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“The ruins of the Old Forge are still to be seen in Ringaskiddy.”
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Haddie O' Sullivan, Kate Crowley
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“The earliest way of making butter in Ringaskiddy was to put the cream into a quart bottle.”
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Annie Barry, May Nolan
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“Basket-making was a thriving little industry in Ringaskiddy over 100 years ago and for years after they were made for local use and for sale.”
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Bridget Deasy, Mary Leahy
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“There was a hedge school at Killeen 70 years ago.”
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James Mc Carthy, Lelia Mc Sweeney
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“About 90 years ago there was a hedge school in the farm of Ballybricken.”
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James Halloran, John Ronayne
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“There is a case in Shanbally outside Ringaskiddy called the Penal Cave.”
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James Halloran, John Ronayne
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“When I was a school girl I was often told by my grandmother that in Currabinny wood there is a large flat stone lying on a hillock.”
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Hannah Murphy, Maura Murphy
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“There is a large stone lying on the seashore on the west side of Cork Harbour nearly opposite Spike Island to which the following legend is attached...”
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Denis O' Mahony, Joan O' Mahony
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“An old Irish custom which like many another has died out was that of caoining the dead.”
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Mary Enright, Rosaleen Mc Carthy
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“Nell Saul, Mary Flaherty, and Bridget Driscoll, were the caoiners of this place.”
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Agnes O' Callaghan, Jeremiah O' Callaghan
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“Our great-grandmother did not go to town or city for bottle or box from the chemist ship to cure their ills.”
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Florence Enright, Rosaleen Mc Carthy
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“Boiled turnips were used for colds and lung trouble.”
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Agnes O' Callaghan, Jeremiah O' Callaghan
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“When a swan comes near the shore it is a sign of bad weather.”
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James Murphy, Rosaleen Mc Carthy
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“When I was a little boy of ten, I often heard my grandfather relate the following story whenever a stranger came sgoireacthing.”
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Agnes O' Callaghan, Jeremiah O' Callaghan
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