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The Main Manuscript Collection
CBÉ 0521 (Part 6)

Volume: CBÉ 0521 (Part 6)

Date

1938

Collector

Bríd Ní Ghamhnáin

Locations

Aghanagh, Co. Sligo
Killadoon, Co. Sligo
Kilmacallan, Co. Sligo

Titles (33)

1. “This is an auld sthory that I only thought o' a few nights ago...”

Lore
2. An Old Marriage Custom

Lore
3. Weather Signs

Lore
4. “I ushed ta hear ould Micheal tellin' this sthory a long time ago, an' he could it it in good sthyle...”

Lore
5. “Greyhounds are the most treacherous animals that anywan could have...”

Lore
6. “Did ye ever hear tell o' Betty Mc Dermotts Rosary? Well...”

Lore
7. The Man in the Moon

Lore
8. “Children who are about to come into the world...”

Lore
9. “Ill-gotten goods if they are kept usually bring misfortune on the people who keep them.”

Lore
10. “If an owl hoots near a person...”

Lore
11. “It is also considered unlucky if ...”

Lore
12. “If a swallow builds her nest...”

Lore
13. “The "Bridge of Dunces" was the general term for fourth class...”

Lore
14. “In auld times people warn't half is fond...”

Lore
15. “It is never considered right to strike a person...”

Lore
16. “It is never considered lucky in this district...”

Lore
17. “We be all grumblin these times, about hard times but if we had to endure all the hardships...”

Lore
18. “It was said too that in the Geevagh parish...”

Lore
19. “Thrath, theres a good many people goin' these times that 'ld say...”

Lore
20. A Folktale from Keash

Lore
21. “It was fifteen years after the sthory I'm afther tellin ye happened...”

Lore
22. “I heard a sthory from ould Pat Lansey (Lord be good to him...”

Lore
23. “There was a Protestant man livin not far from this place...”

Lore
24. “A poor ould man, an his wife lived by the edge o' a lonely wood, long, long years ago...”

Lore
25. “Im goin to tell ye a sthory about a fort thats situated in the townland of Annagheor in Ballyrush...”

Lore
26. Cailin O'Threen

Lore
27. More Weather Signs

Lore
28. “There lived a poor ould man in this disthtrict a cupla yhears ago, an' he suffered...”

Lore
29. “Did ye ever hear the sthory about the Free-mason an' the Thrasher? Well I'll tell...”

Lore
30. “Well Maybe ye have heard enough about Devils be now...”

Lore
31. “Well is I'm at the sthory-tellin' now I might is well tell ye about another man...”

Lore
32. “There lived an old belief in this district that...”

Lore
33. “There was a story told in the parish of Geevagh in olden times to frighten childre who weren't obedient...”

Lore

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0521, Page 492 — Archival Reference

The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0521, Page 492

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