The Schools’ Collection

This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s. More information

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  1. Local Monuments

    There is a standing stone in a field of Philip O' Donnell's, Ballybig, Carndonagh.

    CBÉS 1114

    Maeve Doogan, Mrs Farron

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  2. Death Signs

    Two children belonging to Mr Daniel Doherty, Altohay, Carndonagh, died about twenty five years ago.

    CBÉS 1114

    Daniel Doherty

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  3. Death Signs

    About eighty years ago a woman who had been away in America for a long time wrote home to her parents who were living beside the convent in Carndonagh, informing them that she was coming home to pay them a visit.

    CBÉS 1114

    Mr Henry Doherty

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    About seventy years ago there were rocks and flags of stone in the middle of a field in Casheleraw, near Carndonagh.

    CBÉS 1114

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    One winters night Sarah Ned's brother who lived where his sister lives in Mullins, Carndonagh was coming home from a wake.

    CBÉS 1114

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    A woman named Nora O' Donnell lived in Tiernaleague, Carndonagh about twelve years ago.

    CBÉS 1114

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    About ninety years ago my great grandfather, John Kearney of Cashelcraw, Carndonagh, was quarring stones in a field near the house.

    CBÉS 1114

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    A story is told of a man and a woman who lived in the Doonings, Carndonagh.

    CBÉS 1114

    John Nelson, Sarah B. Nelson

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    When the people of Carndonagh were carting on the Derry road there was a man named Tom Doherty coming home from Derry with a load of goods.

    CBÉS 1114

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    There was a man and woman living in Carndonagh about sixty years ago.

    CBÉS 1114

    Mr Charles Farren

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    About five years ago a man named Neil Doherty who lived in Glack, in the parish of Carndonagh had some land in the "Buildings" and a man named Mr Doogen bought it with the intention of growing hay.

    CBÉS 1114

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    Out at the Mein in the district of Glenagannon, Carndonagh there is a big rock which is a giant was supposed to throw from the top of Sliabh Sneachta.

    CBÉS 1115

    Mrs Eliza Doherty

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    On the river of Glenagannon, Carndonagh, there is a rock with a little well in the middle of it which is called the "Warty Well".

    CBÉS 1115

    Mrs Eliza Doherty

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    It is said that the bell which now occupies the Belfry of the Protestant Church at Carndonagh was formerly in use in the catholic church before the sixteenth century.

    CBÉS 1115

    Dympna Doherty, John Kearney

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    In the district of Tulnaree, Carndonagh, Co Donegal, there is a small village called Gort.

    CBÉS 1115

    Maude Canny, Mrs Annie Canny

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    In the penal days when the priests were being hunted, a priest used to hide in a house now called Fairview, near Carndonagh, Co Donegal.

    CBÉS 1115

    George Clingain, Roseanne Clingain

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    There is a story told of an old man and woman who lived to together in the townland of Ballyloskey, Carndonagh, County Donegal.

    CBÉS 1115

    Maggie Mc Elhinney, Mrs Fanny Mc Callion

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    Between seventy and eighty years ago a strange woman came to the house at present occupied by Sarah and Mary Kearney, The Mullins, Carndonagh.

    CBÉS 1115

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    A man called Willie O'Donnell, The Mullins, Carndonagh, returned from Australia, in the year of 1913.

    CBÉS 1115

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    In the year 1891 there was supposed to be a haunted house in Milltown, Carndonagh.

    CBÉS 1115

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