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Location: Kilmacallan​/​Kilmactranny Co. Sligo

Date:
1936
Collector:
Bríd Ní Ghamhnáin

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Titles (25)

  1. The Apprentice Thief
  2. Lord Thorney
  3. The Priest's Messenger
  4. The Story of Diarmuid and Grania
  5. Fairy Tales - The Three Wishes
  6. “Willie an Tom used to meet occasionally at night...”
  7. “It is said that Lough Arrow is an enchanted lake.”
  8. A Story of a Banshee
  9. “This happen about 45 years ago, while people were sayin the rosary in a certain house. They heard a sthrange mournful cry outside.”
  10. “Begannies I'm goin to tell ye a thrue sthory now agradh.”
  11. “Well is thrue is I'm sittin on this creepeen...”
  12. Some Humorous Stories Told by the Old People of My District - Tommies Whale
  13. “Be jabers - I was expectin' a cow to calve, an' she calved...”
  14. “Bedays a flock o' wild geese...”
  15. “Well be cripes, wan time...”
  16. “Bedays I was never short o mate in me life.”
  17. Pisreogs
  18. An Addition that the Old People had to the Hail Holy Queen
  19. Herbs
  20. Wells and Places of Interest
  21. Baldwin Castle
  22. “Cor-lugar: This is speck on the top of one of the Corrick hills...”
  23. Ghost Stories
  24. “A lodger from this district came to stay in a house near Ballinasloe...”
  25. “A young fella, he happened to be stationed in the ould R.I.C. Barracks...”
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Kilmacallan​/​Kilmactranny | The Main Manuscripts Collection

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“This happen about 45 years ago, while people were sayin the rosary in a certain house. They heard a sthrange mournful cry outside.”

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Location
Kilmacallan, Co. Sligo
Kilmactranny, Co. Sligo
Collector
Bríd Ní Ghamhnáin
Informant
William Keaney
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