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  1. (gan teideal)

    “It is a very lucky thing to lie down in a bunch of ferns for Our Lord slept in them.”

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    there was a Maybush opposite every door. The Jews went into some house and asked the people of the house where did they think they would find our Lord. They were told that they would find him in the first house they'd see without a Maybush, so they searched all the houses in the locality and they couldn't find one without a Maybush. So in this Co. it is considered a lucky thing to put up a May-bush on a May morning. When our Lord was carrying his cross to Calvary a robin came along behind him and covered up the blood that day on the ground, and in doing so some blood remained on it's breast. Ever since then the

  2. The Magic Needle

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    hand and wished for a big mansion with plenty of servants waiting on and plenty of lovely furniture and everything they could wish for, and from that day out they never were in want again.
    Well if they didn't live happy that you and I may so put down the kettle and make the tay.

  3. (gan teideal)

    “There was a man wan time and he was married.”

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    and they took great pity on him and soon had the supper ready. John sat down to eat and nothin ever happened to knock him about and he finished his meal and went over and sat down by the fire. He asked the old man could he have a night's lodging and the old man told him he could and welcome. So John remained there that night and got up in the morning and got his breakfast and started for the road again with his loaf of bread under his arm. He travelled on an on all day and at night he came to his own house. You may bet his wife and family had great welcome for him when they saw him and they had great rejoicing that night. John told them all he went through since he left home, and also

  4. (gan teideal)

    “When I was a young and airy and full of heart in rambling.”

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    and crept down into an old barrel and stayed there for three days and three nights. Then I came up and told them to '[?]' away and '[?]' the bloody bugger, when I knew they were gone for I found I had no relations and never had any. I had one old Uncle and he was bound to a gate by the heels of his shoes. I had on old sweet heart but she and I must part and anyone that ever seen her couldn't blame me. She had two ears like to ash trees and a body like a springin' heifer in the month of May. I lost her between Michaelmass and Candlemas and I never got any account of her and never may I.

  5. (gan teideal)

    “There was a king wan time and he had a beautiful daughter.”

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    he told her that "I go around collectin' ould iron. There is a good go on ould iron now" says. " get a shillin a cut for it and that will be your job to morrow" says he collectin ould iron". The poor princess didn't know what to say to this at all. "Then other days" says the beggar "I collect sallies and I make a lot of potato baskets". We must collect some of them soon and I will show you how to make them. It will be a right time sitting out against the sun making baskets. There is no trouble in the wide world makin' them. You may imagine the state the princess was in when she heard this talk especially after she just leaving he fathers home where she was used to nothing only everything of the best that money could buy and then having to listen to this ould beggarman talking about potatoe

  6. Castle of the Underworld

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    came to Jack next day in the garden and says now Jack I'm done would ye and ye have to get nine blackthorn sticks he says no matter where you get them and for nine mornings place a blackthorn on a rush each morning
    So Jack done that before to got married to her brought her home to his own country so put down the kettle and make tay and if they dont live happy that we may

  7. (gan teideal)

    “A committee was formed in London including some of the most influential nobleman in England...”

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    Easter 1846
    "I have no hesitation in saying, that we have at least 20,000 Teetotallers more this year in the County and city, than in 1845 and I firmly believe there is no town or city in the Empire that can exhibit so beautiful an illustration of the value of Father Mathew's movement as Dublin." John Spratt D.D.
    April 25 1846
    This morning, Rev. Dr. Spratt left for Lisdoney, County of Kilkenny where he administered the pledge. No dangers daunt him, nor labours tire. He is willing to travel by night as by day, over the length and breadth of Ireland to promote the cause of "Total Abstinence".
    May 17th 1846
    A great open-air meeting was held at New Market. The meeting was addressed by Rev. Dr. Spratt. One thousand persons took the pledge.
    May 25th 1846
    Rev. Wm. Regan, administered the pledge to the male convicts in the Co. Gaol - they were sent on the following day to Dublin, from hence to a Penal Colony. Fr. Mathew gave them cards and medals.

  8. (gan teideal)

    “I'm a great ould seanachaidhe, am I, well ta tell ye the thruth, girleen, it reminds me o' ould times when ye come in an' sit here...”

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    dozen women there too, an' them all dancin' to the music. The cripple was there presidin' over the whole affair, him sthandin' out on the fhire, an' now an' agin givin' a few stheps o' a dance, along wit the resht o' the company.
    The minnit he saw the father, however, he hopped into bed, an' the resht o' the company disappeared like clockwork The father then knew that he wastnt aright child at all, so when he tould the neighbours, the sthory they came to the conclusion that he had something ta do wit the fairies, or maybe some evil spirits, so they decided that the besht thing ta do was ta get rid o' him.
    There was an ould cushtom in Ireland, an' I think it was in agood may ether counthries is well, an' it was ta burn, anywan that had anything unnatural about them On the day that they war ta burn the buachaillin na Cruiche, all the neighbours had gethered ta see the performance. The Buachaillin was brought out to the place where he was ta be burned, an' they war jusht bindin' his hands an' feet, when he spoke up, an' sez he "Ye might is well spare me, for its hardly worth yer while ta do away wit me for in three days time I'll die, an' sez he the day o' funeral 'ill never beforgotten. They spared him an no doubt, he had some part in wit the fairies, because his prophecy about his funeral came thrue sure enough

  9. Long Ago

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    Long ago when I was a young man we used to spend a day binding for a schilling.
    The food we had was cutting stirabout and biates three times a day and butter that used leaping out of the cans. We never had tea, unless maybe Christmas Day.
    The men used to mous with seythes and hooks and the women and young chaps used to the binding
    Farmers, long ago, would never give a drop of milk to anyone on the 1st of May, for fear of the pisreogs.
    During Lent the people used take no milk with the porridge. Then used have big barley dumplins, and big wheat dumplins and water.
    In the time of the Harvest

  10. Laying the Ghost at Aughmora

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    any more miracles and sign is on it, he never gave him a parish. Father Burke had a lovely head of aubrun hair. He was as white as snow in the morning after laying the ghost. People would tell you that he had a very severe struggle with him & that he was within 'the black of your nail' of being bested in the fray."
    [I knew Father Burke when he was over 70 years of age. Show-white hair; beautiful eyes; chanter at every Office for the dead, but still a curate. PMD 1937]
    My own story:-
    In the summer of 1913 I selected the Kellistown area for intensive field work. I spend all my summer holidays in those days in field work & during the remainder of the year I have ample time to carry on the necessary complementary research in the libraries. Lord Walter Fitzgerald was my constant companion during these early days of enthusiastic archaeology. I may add that I insisted on his signing all my contributions to The Kildare Archaeological Journal.
    "I was living in Tullow at the time. Passing home by Aughmora one evening at dusk, I met a white greyhound on the bridge. Futher enquiries made on the following morning failed to elicit the information that anybody in the locality possessed a greyhound of any description. I observed, however, that the bridge was being

  11. Long Story - Jack and the Giants

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    Long Story
    Jack the Giant Killer or Jack from Galway.
    Jack was a small farmer's son that lived in the County Galway, who heard of neighbours going away, who did great deeds & all that, getting bags of money, killing giants and so on. One day Jack told his father & mother that he'd go and seek his fortune too. So his mother, with tears in her eyes, baked him a cake; and off started Jack.
    He travelled away all day and a part of the night when he began to feel tired and weary. So he sat down in the ditch where he very soon fell asleep. It was in the summer time, in the month of May, and when he awoke the sun was high up in the heavens.
    "Begon", said Jack, "this will never do at all. But before the start I'd better ate a bit of cake". So he did.
    "Now I'm better", he said to himself, "I better be taking the road".
    He travelled away not knowing where he was going and caring less, until he began to feel hungry again. So he sat down on the

  12. Mocley the Fool

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    so. She was tormented. "Begor" says she. "You may stay hungry to day be the look of things." Mocley was so mad with the hunger and everything else that he walked away from his mother an' the cow. He went down the street. At that time on the streets at the fairs there used be stands sellin' biled pig heads an' biled pig's feet an' chunks of bread. As Mocley was goin' by wan of the stands the smell of the biled mate was too much for him so he stopped. He picked up wan o' the posts of the stands an made a drive at the man in charge. He got such a fright he ran away. Mocley gripped a pig's headin wan hand an a big chunk of bread the the other an' went off down the street atin at his leisure.
    His mother never sold the cow

  13. Jack and the Brown Horse

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    gave the golden urn to the king. The king couldn't believe his eyes when Jack arrived safe and sound with the golden urn. He thanked Jack over and over again, and gave him his hundred pounds. You may be save Jack and the brown horse slept well that night and part of the next day.
    About a week afterwards the grand lady came to the king's palace, and the king then asked her to marry him as he had got the golden for her. She examined it and told him it was indeed the right urn, "but" says she "I cannot marry you until you get for me the red mare that lies at the bottom of the red sea and three foals at her foot." The king was greatly disappointed when she wouldn't marry him yet, and he

  14. (gan teideal)

    “There was a family lived in Ballinclay by the name of Lacey.”

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    There was a family lived in Ballinclay by the name of Lacey. There were three brothers and one sister in it. Their names were Mat, Nick, Paddy and Mary Lacey. They were very young n poor in their young days. They were so poor that their only means of living was a [?] which they kept for service. They had no out houses so they used to have the 'puck" inside in the dwelling-house tied to the foot of the bed, or so the old people used to say.
    As they advanced in years luck turned, and they got a little well off in the world. May was the oldest of the four, and he owned the [?], but he didn't like to part with it for it had brought him luck. Nick was

  15. Wake in Camross

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    There was a wake in Camross wan night, and it bet all the amount of whiskey was there. There was wan fellow there and he drank so much whiskey that he didn't know whether 'twas day or night he had.
    Some time during the night, when the people of the house were in the bed taking a rest, some of the boyos lifted him into the bed with the corpse.
    When he woke up in the morning he was 'longside the corpse and you may swear he got out of that quick an lively

  16. Superstitions

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    Teach Munna, Co. Loch Garman

    It is never right to whitewash a house during the month of May.
    Mostly all the houses were whitewashed and cleaned up in Taghmon during April, and in a few cases men worked very hard during hte last few days of April in order to have the work done before 1st May.
    It is also said that one should not get married in month of May.
    Tomás O Ciapda.

  17. Superstitions

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    On May Eve some people put up a quicken berry branch on the gates and doors to keep the fairies away.
    More old people wouldn't like to give a drop of milk away on May Day. They say it would be unlucky.
    People long ago used to redden the sock of the plough on May Eve and put it in under the churn, when the churning would be ready.
    This was to keep the fairies out of the churning.

  18. Béaloideas ó Dhún Chormaic - Whitewashing in May

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    Dún Chormaic, Co. Loch Garman

    "Whitewash in May, and you drive your friends away" is an ould saying.
    There were people who lived in Blackstone, near Duncormick, wan time and they were wan year whitewashing in May. Some friends came to visit while they were at it.
    "Oh" says they, "whitewash in May and you drive your friends away".
    That day well wan of them went to the asylum. They never whitewashed in Blackstone during the month of May after that.

  19. (gan teideal)

    “There was a woman buried in a vault in Killurin named Mrs. Beaty.”

    CBÉ 0221

    When she came ta the door she knocked. Mr. Beaty heard the knock and says he ta himself. "God save us that is the woman's knock I'd know it anywhere". So he went down ta the door and opened it and there he found the wife and nothing on her but the habit. She told him the whole story from beginning ta end and you may be sure that he was delighted when he had the Mrs. home again safe and sound. After a few days she was as well as ever, for she was only in a trance. After three months a son was born ta her, and he often told it ta the neighbour when he was an old man that he was born after his mother died.
    Mrs. Beaty would give anything to the footman if she could find him, but he never returned home. He couldn't do it.

  20. Enchanted King and Queen

    CBÉ 0265

    forgot raking the fire the next night so she says to the lad "you rake up that fire before we go to bed" so the lad was raking the fire & she pulled out her feathers & says "By the bark of my 3 crows feathers may you be raking & raking all night". So the lad was raking the fire all night & the lad & the fire was roaring & going mad through the house all night So the ould king was killing the witch upstairs - he didn't no what to do so next day come on & there was 3 cart load of clothes to be washed & Nancy pulled out her 3 crows feathers & says "Be the bark of my 3 crows feathers I wished that I had you all washed starched blued & dried"
    & no sooner said than it was done & the 3rd lad