School: Ballyhahill (C.) (roll number 10686)
- Location:
- Ballyhahill, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: H. Fitzgerald
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0482, Page 256
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ballyhahill (C.)
- XML Page 256
- XML “Hurling and Football”
- XML “An Old Story”
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
- (continued from previous page)between Ballyhahill and Kilcoleman-Monemohill being the meeting place. The players were dressed in their ordinary clothes. There was no refereeing done. Hurling was not played much in this parish. Hand-ball was engaged in a great extent, and gable-ends of houses were much used for this purpose. Weight-throwing; high jump; hop-step-and jump; long jump; foot-racing, were the chief pastimes of young men in the summer evenings long ago.(continues on next page)
- 1. About three miles west of Ballyhahill there is a small bridge crossing the public road. The spot is called " Acha na spríde" and in English "Annaspridch" A story goes that years ago, a woman lived with her husband, near this bridge. She was a wicked woman, and after she had married her husband she boiled him in a pot. She had no peace of mind for the rest of her life.
After she died a ghost used to be seen at the bridge at night. It was thought to be the spirit of this bad woman. When people were going to the fair, or riding on horseback or driving, it used sit up near them, or behind them. People got terrified out of their wits, and the whole country side was shaking(continues on next page) - Collector
- Teresa Danaher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocknabooly West, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- John O' Callaghan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Tinnakilla, Co. Limerick
