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Kilmacallan/Kilmactranny

Location: Kilmacallan/Kilmactranny Co. Sligo

Date:: 1936
Collector:: Bríd Ní Ghamhnáin

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Titles (25)

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

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Archival Reference

The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0251, Page 0520

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Some Humorous Stories Told by the Old People of My District - Tommies Whale


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

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