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Clongeen/Raheen

Location: Clongeen/Raheen Co. Wexford

Date:: 1938
Collector:: Tomás Ó Ciardha

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Titles (51)

Long Story - Jack and the Giants
Béaloideas ó Pharóiste Chluain Gaoin (Clongeen)
“About fifteen or twenty years ago 'twas in the summer time,...”
Hard Work
“Martin was talking to Johny another day about what would happen when a person would die.”
“There was a fellow going around here wan time and no matter what he'd see he say "God save it".”
“There was an ould woman going around here and she had a son going with her...”
Ráth
“There was a fellow living around here he was a half Charlie of a fellow.”
“This Matty Bandeville, Matty the Doctor as he was called, he had two nieces...”
“There's a woman down here the road and she's an awful blueshirt.”
Nicknames
“There was an ould fellow living in Shanoule...”
Rats
The Bow (Bean Sí)
“Go to Heaven! You'd often hear people saying...”
“There were two fellows wan time and they were great chums entirely.”
“There was a wake in little Cullenstown last week.”
“I was coming home wan night from Rockview meself and Mike Carroll,...”
“The night before Nick Culleton died,...”
The Evil Eye
Caoine
Shooting
“Of another day I was down in the wood near Pack's Bridge, and there was a woodcrest up on the tree.”
“This same woman, Mag Calfer, went to cook a rabbit wan day.”
Seanfhocal
“There was a girl working down in Horetown with some of the gentry there.”
“There was a girl working down in Horetown with some of the gentry there.”
Ghost
“I was out jenneting wan night with a fellow by the name of William Scully...”
Ghosts
Ghosts
Ghosts
Ghosts
Ghosts
Buried Treasure
Treasure
Treasure
Treasure
Treasure
Going Astray
Going Astray
“When they were making the road along here the men had fourpence a day and pound of méal.”
Ráths
“After '98 I heard me father saying, that he often heard his father telling it, that they used often have to stay out on the double ditch all night,...”
“Tom Kelly was a great strong man, a giant of a fellow.”

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0460, Page 0274

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“This same woman, Mag Calfer, went to cook a rabbit wan day.”

Seanfhocal

“There was a girl working down in Horetown with some of the gentry there.”

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Location: Clongeen, Co. Wexford; Raheen, Co. Wexford
Collector: Tomás Ó Ciardha
Informant: John Carroll
Language: English

“There was a girl working down in Horetown with some of the gentry there.”