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  1. (no title)

    During the course of the evening Mac Donald made a passing reference to Moll Anthony, the fairy-woman of Kildare...

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Edward Ó Toole, Frank Mac Donald

  2. Wake Games

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  3. (no title)

    Patrick Kavanagh's father had two dogs, one a whole spaniel, and the other a half-spaniel.

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  4. (no title)

    Patrick Kavanagh, the miller, was a road contractor.

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  5. (no title)

    A very big flood rose in Cloneygall district in 1881 or 1882, Mac Donald said.

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  6. (no title)

    Mr. Fitzgibbon, N.T., Tullow, in whose house the material was recorded on the Ediphone, told a story illustrative of the supposed foolishness of the farmers living in the Barony of Forth, Co. Wexford.

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Mr. Fitzgibbon

  7. (no title)

    A child born with a caul will go to sea.

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    Lore

    1938

    Mrs. Fitzgibbon

  8. (no title)

    I, Frank Mac Donald, Ballyredmond, Cloneygall, am now about to give an account of the traditions heard from me own people of the Rebellion of Seventeen Hundred and Ninety Eight.

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    29 October 1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  9. (no title)

    Mac Donald said there was a rath on top of Clonogan Hill.

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  10. (no title)

    Mr. O' Toole and Mac Donald had often heard a story about a young cat...

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Edward Ó Toole, Frank Mac Donald

  11. (no title)

    An old man in Ballyredmond often told the story about cats which came in to a barn...

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  12. (no title)

    All cats, at one time, had a nail on the end of their tail to kill rats with.

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  13. (no title)

    Mr. O'Toole made reference to a story which he had heard about the Hairy Puckán.

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Edward Ó Toole

  14. (no title)

    Father Keogh, Ratoa (?) was one May morning going along the road...

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Edward Ó Toole, Frank Mac Donald

  15. (no title)

    In Cloneygall district cows are always milked from the right side.

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Edward Ó Toole, Frank Mac Donald

  16. (no title)

    Mac Donald when questioned about Death customs in Cloneygall districts said that the corpse is always laid out to face the door.

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  17. (no title)

    In Cloneygall districts the corpse is never waked in the kitchen but always in the room.

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  18. (no title)

    Mac Donald said that he had attended a wake in Co. Wexford, where five candles placed in the shape of a crucifix were lighted near the corpse.

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  19. (no title)

    A man called Redmond was very fond of playing cards.

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Frank Mac Donald

  20. (no title)

    Mr. O'Toole then told a story about a man who played cards with the Devil one night...

    CBÉ 0580

    Lore

    1938

    Edward Ó Toole