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List of schools and items where this name is mentioned

counties

  1. Louth (18)

School: Termonfeckin

Location
Termonfeckin, Co. Louth
Teacher
T. Ó Corcoráin

Stories

School: Collon

Location
Collon, Co. Louth
Teacher
Bean Uí Mhathúna

Stories

  1. (no title)

    “Many are the moates, or raths, which may be seen around this district, and the following are some of them.”

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Hanratty

  2. (no title)

    “Here are two examples of how a boy and girl was married long ago.”

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Hanratty

  3. (no title)

    “One of the most noted of hedge schools of this district, was at Mosseyconn in Strinagh, on the brow of the hill overlooking Reilly's cottage.”

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Hanratty

  4. (no title)

    “It is said, that if a person has a stye on his eye, and a boy or girl whose father and mother are both living get ten dalks of a gooseberry buch , and makes the sign of the cross before the eye of the person, with nine of the dalks, one at a time, and throws the tenth one away, this is the cure.”

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Hanratty

  5. (no title)

    “The birds seen around this district are, the robin, the wren, the blackbird, the thrush, the stair, the pigeon, the crow, the magpie, the snipe, the woodcock, the pheasant, the patridge, the oul, the curlew, the plover, the joy, the hawk, and the linnet, and during the Summer months there number is added to by the coming of the cuckoo, the swallow, and corncrake.”

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Hanratty

  6. (no title)

    “When the cat sits with its back to the fire, its the sign of a storm, when the springs rise, when the wind is south west, when Mt. Oriel is capped, when the hens pick themselves, and stand round under the hedges, when the sky is mackerel, when there's a misty circle round the moon, when the walls and stones get damp, when the train can be heard coming into Dunleen, or when Tenure bell can be heard ringing, when the dog eats grass, when the soot falls down the chimney, when the horse stands with its back to the ditch, when the smoke blows down the hollows, when the smoke puffs back down the chimney, when the will o the wisp comes and blows the hay and corn through the barns, all these foretell the coming of rain.”

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Hanratty

  7. (no title)

    “Eddy Madden from Grange Gate carried three hundred weight of an iron stone, across two fields, and went up a ladder with it on his back, and put it in as a corner coin, in Reid's house on the Kells Rd and the same man got the loan of a donkey and cart of a man named Elliot in Grange, and went to Drogheda wit it, and when he was coming home, he donkey got lazy and Madden drew a lick of a thick stick on the donkeys head, and knocked him kicking in the cart, and when he found out, that he had killed the poor beast he loosed it out of the cart, and threw it into it.”

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Hanratty

  8. (no title)

    “A certain man was working in Dublin, and he was stopping in a boarding house.”

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Hanratty