School: Clews' Memorial (roll number 15465)
- Location:
- Mainistir na Búille, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Máire Ní Néill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0234, Page 055
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)
- XML School: Clews' Memorial
- XML Page 055
- XML “Story”
- XML “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
Story (continued)
“Where the residence of Deerpark National School now stands my great-grandfather lived.”
(continued from previous page)"I have you now", a voice said, and when she pulled in the tongs, half the legs of the tongs was gone with the cloth. The strange woman has never been seen since.
Story
“Some time ago people put a porringer on a calf when it would be a few days old, to keep it from eating hay.”
Story
[-]
Some time ago people put a porringer on a calf when it would be a few days old, to keep it from eating hay. My grandfather, John Walsh, did this; some people do it still. And calf my grandfather put a porringer on, he was sure to die. If my grandfather was out late that night he would hear the moaning of the calf going along by the Deerpark Wall and up to the Shegorn Wood, but there would be an image of a calf left in the barn. He never put a porringer on a calf for years before he died, and the calves all lived. - Collector
- Thomas Mc Garry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Sí Ghuaire, Co. Ros Comáin
- Informant
- Mrs J. Mc Garry
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Sí Ghuaire, Co. Ros Comáin