1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. St Fiachra's, Ullard, Borris, Co. Carlow

School: St Fiachra's, Ullard, Borris, Co. Carlow (roll number 3459)

Location:
Ullard, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Máire Ní Ghuidhir
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0857, Page 165

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0857, Page 165

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: St Fiachra's, Ullard, Borris, Co. Carlow
  2. XML Page 165
  3. XML “Teampall na mBa”
  4. XML “Pattern Day on the White Mountain and Cahir's Den”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  2. Pattern Day on the White Mountain and Cahir's Den

    Share Share Post
    Each year, on the Sunday following the Pattern Sunday of St. Mullins there is a pattern held on the White Mountain. From early morning on the pattern day we hear carts and motors hurrying to the pattern. We do not be short of refreshments or sweets on this day as we can easly get them from the hawkers.
    Near the place where the pattern is held there is a group of stones called after Fionn's dog Bran. Tradition tells us that Bran used to leap from stone to
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Maguire
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    James Maguire
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    54
    Address
    Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny