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  1. A Story

    “Fairy tales are common in this district but nearly every person has them in different ways.”

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    Leathanach 268

    A story
    and it is said if a person breaks a branch off this tree that he will meet with many misfortunes.
    This was foretold when the first branch of this tree grew. Most of the rowan trees are green., but this tree is withered away with age, as it is about ninety years of age now.
    This tree is about two and a half miles from the main road leading from Derry to Moville and is about two miles from St. Columba's Catholic Church, Drung. It is about fifty yards from Lough Inn, the place where the Lough Lily fair takes place each year.

  2. May Day

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    Leathanach 09_005

    If the people are going to churn they will either churn when the sun is set or before it gets up in the morning. Some people do go out and get a rowan / round tree rod and make a gad out of the rod and put it on the churndash over the lid. The people say that if you wash your hands with the few of May morning that your hands would be able to open

  3. Festivals

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    Leathanach 122

    There are many festival customs with regards to May day.
    It is said if you rise early on May morning you will be fit to rise early all the the rest of the year round. Some people put May flowers outside their dwelling house door on May eve to keep the fairies away.
    Other people tie a branch of a rowan tree to a cow's tail on May eve and they also put a branch of a rowan tree in the byre.
    If you was your face in the dew on May morning you are supposed to have a good complexion that year.
    Who ever goes to a spring well first on a May morning with a milking vessel brings luck to their stock. If the wind is South on May eve and on May morning it is supposed to be a good grass

  4. Local Place Names

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    Leathanach 96

    the orchard. Páirc Crann Casran, the field of the rowan tree. Léana na gcasrach, the sheep's lee. Cliabaide, a Gharrags. the short ridges. Beinn gorm, the blue bing Páirc Bán, the lee field.

  5. A Fairy Story

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    Leathanach 324

    Once upon a time a man went out to quarry stones never thinking that anything would happen to him. There was a rowan tree growing beside the quarry. He did not know it belonged to the fairies. He quarried the stones and cut down the bush. He was safe enough until next morning and when he arose out of his bed he was very much troubled when he saw there was no hair on his head.

  6. Herbs

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    Leathanach 092

    The most harmful weeds growing on our farm at home are, hemlock, which is a poisonous weed for cattle, and lasseline, which is deadly poison for sheep, and often kills them. The yew tree is also poisonous, and also the rowan tree. The fairy thimble is poisonous for cattle, but digitalis extracted from the fairy thimble is used on the treatment of heart troubles.
    Herbs that spread rapidly are chickweed and nettles. Nettles impoverish the soil. White and red clover are a sign of good land. Meadow foxtail grows in good land too. Thistles are found growing in good land.
    A man went match-making for his daughter. Having inspected an apparently good land, he refused to do business, owing to the absence of thistles on the farm. Proving that to his mind land was not good that did not produce thistles.
    Lasseline which is poisonous for sheep, makes a powerful blister

  7. Cures

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    Leathanach 220

    Rub a charge of gun powder and a glass of vinegar into a bottle, shake mixture and apply to the ringworm twice daily.
    On Patrick morning the head of the house puts a hazel stick in the fire and quenches it then in water and with the blackened stick makes a cross on the shoulder of each member of the family
    On May Eve
    A branch of may pole tree (rowan tree) used be stuck in the thatch and also in each different crop.
    Suppose to happen about the end of 18th century.

  8. Local Place Names

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    Leathanach 44

    The names of the fields on our farm at home are, Jamy’s field, the big field, the Braw, the Meadow, Marry Ann’s field and Mackern’s field.
    Jamy’s field belonged to a man named Jamy Gallagher. Mary Ann’s field belonged to Mary Ann Mc Nutt. Mackern’s field belonged to a man named Mackern. There is a large rowan tree and a cherry tree in the field.
    These are some of the bogs in the parish, Leaney’s moss, [Conneys ?] moss and Gallagher’s moss. Leaneys moss is situated in the centre of Glenalla, and [Corney’s ?] moss is situated in Jordie.
    These are some of the hills, Ray hill, Rickeys hill, Croghan, the Brannit hill, Cnoċ na brai, Lough na Cleire, Mc Coach’s hill, Blackthron’s hill, Divits knowe, Pa Cola, Connaught rid hill, Porter’s hill, Mally’s hill, white hill,

  9. Cure to Get the Butter Back

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    Leathanach 244

    a certain person whom they believed was able to get back the butter.
    They started to prepare the churning on May morning. On that day they cut some branches of a rowan tree or bole tree brush. These they made a hoop of and put them round the churn. They also put some of them over the dairy door or whenever they were churning.
    Once the butter was taken away it could not be got back until this cure had been tired. The person who was supposed to have the cure was then sent for. In almost all cases it was a woman then this person would come to the house and take charge of the proceedings.
    The doors and windows would then be tightly closed and a big fire put down. Then a harrowpin and coulter of a plough were put into the fire and the churning was commenced and some prayers said.
    No one was allowed in or out. Sometimes they spent hours beating the milk. After long and weary beating the milk they would let a scream when they

  10. Herbs

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    Leathanach 198

    Herbs which spread rapidly are chicken-weed and Nettles. The latter impoverish the soil. Hemlock is a poison for cattle. The yew tree and Rowan tree are poisonous. Digitalis extracted from the fairy thimble, is poisonous for cattle, but is used for heart trouble.
    Lasseline is poisonous for sheep, and often kills them. It grows in marshy places. Lasseline makes a powerful blister for tumours.
    The Male-fern cures fluke in cattle, and cures tape-worm in children. The fern grows in bogs. Slaundice (Slán-lus) pounded and applied in bulk stops profuse bleeding.
    Hemlock roots pounded and boiled, and applied to ulcers heals them.
    Hemlock leaves pounded and applied in bulk, when a burn is painful eases the pain, and cures the burn.
    Marsh mallow leaves pounded and mixed with lard, cures bruises and sores.
    "Three meals of nettles in May, keeps all diseases away." You ought take three meals of nettles in the spring.

  11. Hidden Treasures

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    Leathanach 460

    is said if you did cut it you would die after doing it, and the tree is called "Crann Cam". There is another hidden treasure in John Rowan's bog Trainboy Ballymoe Co Galway this treasure was hidden there during the Black + Tan war, and it consists of ammunition such as guns. There is another hidden treasure in the Ballyglass bog, and it is a pot of gold the man that hid it, stole it from a wicked witch that lived in the castle of Ballyglass and the is now situated in Martin Keegan's field Ballyglass. When the man was hiding it he was the moon so he said, he would hide in frount of the moon. The next night was dark and the moon didnt come out so he never got the gold after that.

  12. (gan teideal)

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    Leathanach 91

    A child who never saw his father would have a cure for a sore mouth. He should blow nine times on the sore place.
    Rub leaf of rowan tree in a hurt and leave it there. When the leaf withered the hurt will be cured.

  13. Churning

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    Leathanach 214

    On May morning the people used to go out before the sun would rise and get rowan tree root. They used to make a ring of it and put it on the lid of the churn to prevent the fairies from taking the butter.
    One time a Protestant's butter was taken and he went to the priest to get it back. The priest blessed the butter and the man got it back again.

  14. Custom on May Day

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    Leathanach 251

    On May Day before sunrise the eldest member of the family gets up, he goes out, pulls a branch of the rowan tree and hangs it over the cow's stable door.
    This is done to prevent the fairies from taking any of the milk from the cows.

  15. Story

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    Leathanach 118

    the same hour she appeared again and went. But as she was leaving the cradle. He jumped out of the bed and clasped her in his arms saying that she would never leave himself or the baby. She explained to him the following, Firstly he should have another young man with him be at the ford crossing the Shournach river named agha rú rúadig. Which ford is known by the same name at present. Secondly he schould have a booth made of branches of the Rowan tree or the Mountain ash and a circle of the same branches which were to be cut with a black knife which was to be kept in the incloser which was to be well sprinkled with holy water and last a black cock. On a certain night which she mentioned there would be some sort of procession

  16. A Strange Well

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    Leathanach 332

    of our fields, and my grandfather told me that it moved three times - once when a woman waashed her feet in it; a second time when a woman washed clothes in it; and the third time when a man watered his horse in it.
    It is there today plain to be seen with a rowan tree growing over it, and I do not think it will move anymore.

  17. A Story

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    Leathanach 293

    Some years ago a family named Heneries lived in Ballyheally. They had a cow and the woman of the house used to milk the cow and churn the cream of the milk. A few times she churned the cream and no butter came on the churn. She was getting annoyed about the milk and said she would tell some one about it. A little fairy met the woman at the door and told her a neighbour of her won was taking the butter off the churn and she would have to go to Bonnar Sheridan. She went to Bonnar Sheridan and he told her to go home and put a handle in her churn made from the Rowan tree, and that the person who was taking the butter would call for a drink of the butter-milk before she would have finished churning. The woman did what he told her and woman who was taking the butter called for a drink of butter-milk and said a fairy told her the night before at the window all about it. The woman who was taking the butter had a magic spell.

  18. On May Eve

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    Leathanach 104

    point of a foot is looked for. If it turns inwards a marriage is certain, but if outward then a death will happen in the family before the year is out. The cattle are signed along the back with a lighted whisp of straw, and a bunch or primroses are tied to the cows tail, for the evil spirits cannot touch anything guarded by these flowers if they are plucked before sunrise not else. But the rowan tree is the best preservative against evil, if a branch be woven into the roof of the house, the house is safe for a year at least, and if mixed with the timber of a boat, no storm will upset it, and no man be drowned in it for the next twelve months.

  19. Churning

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    Leathanach 213

    butter. She used to dress poorly in an old shawl. She was a native of this district and had only two old cows and they were of no use yet she used to come into Carrick market with a very large tub of butter every market day and it was firmly believed that she was taking some neighbour's butter by witchcraft. She used to make a lot of money out of butter. When you suspect a person taking your butter you should get salt from that person or you can prevent them from taking it by putting a piece of iron reddened, under the churn. A lot of the farmers believe that the beginning of May is a very unlucky time of the year for cattle and on May eve a lot of the people tie pieces rowan tree branches on the tails of the cows to prevent the butter from being taken.

  20. Customs of the Old People

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    Leathanach 306

    On New-years day no ashes were removed from the ash pit in the kitchen and no water allowed to be thrown out. The floor was permitted to be swept but not in the direction of the door.
    On May Eve flowers were scattered around the well. A piece of red cloth and a branch of rowan tree were fastened to each cow's tail. A horse shoe was always nailed on the byre door. When men started to plough each morning they threw a handful of fresh clay on the horses.