completely disappeared. When pulling the ends of the twine, it should be held to the animals' side. The process should be repeated a specified number of times. Another 'piseóg' was that known as "turning under a briar". This was considered real devilment, and was supposed to confer great powers. The briar of course should be rooted twice, as most briars always are. Mrs. Crowley says it should be a white briar that is I expect a young tender shoot. This was a trick used by those people who stole the butter from there neighbours on May morning. They say gamblers also resorted to this trick. At the present-day when cards are played locally, it is often said to a player who happens to be remarkably lucky "you must have turned under a briar to-night".
Much mystery too was woven around the hare. It was considered very mislucky to meet one after night unless he was followed by a dog. Otherwise there was no proof that it was a natural hare. Stories are told of people who met this little animal at night, and were then taken suddenly ill and died.
Farmers hated to see a hare among the cows on May morning, for it was commonly known that certain women empowered by the devil used go about as hares stealing butter. Mrs Crowley says that this was a fact.

A boy and a girl were engaged to be married. Their parents objected to the marriage. The girl died of a broken heart and the boy died soon after. They are both buried in Kilnanare. There was a rose planted in the girl's grave, and a briar grew from the boy's grave. The rose and the briar twined together. After

I saw my father making a basket once. The first thing he did was to get a thick briar, and tie the ends together with sallies. Then he put a sally in the middle of the basket and weaved sallies under and over it. Then he put a sally at each side of the middle one, and he kept weaving until the basket was made. Then he put a sally under the briar to make the handle, and he weaved sallies around it.

There is a man in this parish who makes baskets. The first thing he does is he gets a thick briar and he ties the ends together with sallies. Then he puts a sally in the middle of the basket and weaves sallies under and over it. Then he puts a sally at each side of the middle one and he keeps weaving until the basket is made. Then he puts a sally under the briar to make a handle and he weaves sallies around it.

bottom of the crib from one corner to the other. The crib was cocked on one end, and a forkstick put against it, and a twig between the forkstick connected with the briar in the bottom. Food was left inside the crib. When the bird hopped on the briar the twig came out, and the crib fell down, and the bird was caught in the crib them.

to pass by that morning and a briar stopped the motor. Mr Reed got out and took the briar from in front of the motor. Mrs Reed said to him there is surely something there and it was the very spot where John's body was found that evening.

Pass patient under the "loop" of a two rooted briar. (a two rooted briar is one whose stem has come in contract with the ground and rooted.)

Around this district there are a lot of old weeds and herbs such as the Docken, the Briar, Robin Run the Hedge the thistle and the nettle and some others.The Docken is the common weed that grows around this district it grows especially in crop ground or along a ditch. You could cure the sting of the nettle with the Docken by saying docking in and nettle out, docken in and nettle out and so on like that and while saying the words you are to keep rubbing the docken on the sting. The leaf of the docken is of a green colour with a big thick stem.The briar grows especially along a ditch it is on the briar the black berry

Many games are played on Halloweve night such as:- A girl when eating her supper leaves three parts of her supper 1st part, middle part and the last part. She must leave them on a plate along with a knife and fork. She must go to bed without speaking a word. While she is asleep a shadow of her intended appears in a dream.
Another one is:- a girl goes to a place where a briar grows. She must go under the briar three times. She then cuts the briar and puts it under her head and she must sleep on it and she will dream. Sometimes a good dream and sometimes a bad one.

1. There was a man and he was out in a field one day and a woman came along and a briar hanging out of her skirt. The man told her that there was a briar hanging out of her skirt and she said that it was all right. "Oh, no" said the man cutting the briar with his spade and a whole lot of milk began to run out of it.2. There was once a man and when they would churn they would never get any butter in the churn. There would be nothing but blood and froth in the churn. Now there was a man called Connor Sheridan who could tell where stolen things were gone and who took them. The man went to Connor Sheridan and told him his troubles. Conor told him to have a bit of a churning the next morning and to blind up all the windows and bar up the door and put the socket of the plough in the fire and start their churning and that they would

supported by the Forky stick. When a bird steps on the briar or one of the cross-pieces on the log the briar is lowered. It releases the trigger, which springs away and the crib falls.
A crib is usually made in snowy weather to catch different kinds of small birds. The bait to attract the bird under the crib, is placed under cross-pieces on the Briar. For sparrows, linnets, larks corn usually used. Worms, speared thorns, to prevent them from wriggling away are usually used to attract blackbirds. Some with the shells broken are used to attract blackbirds and thrushes both. A freshly boiled potato steaming hot, and emitting a delicious aroma is a never failing attraction during Hard weather.

ones on the top of these. And kept on doing this until I had it about a foot high and cone shaped. I weaved twine through each layer of sticks. This plaited them firmly to-gether. They were like this[Drawing] - Bird CribTo set the crib I put a briar down on the ground. I place the crib sideways on the briar in such a way that when the bird stands o the briar the crib falls down on him and the bird is trapped.

About 50 yrs ago the people of the Point suffered much from the depredations of a fox. Hens disappeared nightly and ultimately men with guns kept watch for him. He was so clever however that they could not get within range of him. He became so bold that he actually took away the hens in daytime when the women were feeding them. On one of these occasions a number of young men gave chase and followed the fox over to the cliff bound shore. The fox disappeared over a cliff which had a sheer drop of 70 or 80 ft to the rocks below. When the young men reached the place and looked down the concluded that the foxe's days were ended. However the hens continued to disappear and the people recognised the old fox again. He was hunted again and disappeared at exactly the same spot. A curious young man, on examining the spot noticed that a briar bush overhung the precipice. Lying in hiding close by, he saw the fox on the occasion of the third hunt swing himself over the cliff by the aid of the briar and land on a ledge a few feet down. The briar was partially severed for the fourth hunt and the fox dropped to the bottom of the cliff & was killed.

is a cure for swollen feet. Boil the briar leaves and wash your feet with the water.

Briar leaves a cure for swollen feet. To make the cure the person with the swollen feet must put the briar leaves in their shoes. Sea fog is a cure for paralysis. To make the cure the person with paralysis must be rubbed three times a day with (threes) the sea weed. Dockans are a cure for the sting of a nettle. The way to make the cure is to rub the Dockans to the burn and saw "nettle burn dockan cure". Seeds of dockans boiled is a cure for bronchitis. The person that has the bronchitis must drink the juice of the boiled dockans seed. Ive leaves steeped in vinegar is a cure for corns. The Ivy leaves must be put to the corns for the cure

When a basket would be needed by the people long ago, they would first get black sally rods and a thick seasoned briar from which the basket was made.

cross got broken a briar grew in the same place and it is still growing in the same place.

centre of the square, where they are tied tightly together. The next thing to be done is to get some twigs and wind them in and out between the sticks thereby making a kind of pyramid. The bird basket is then complete.
The next thing to be done is to set it. To do this it is necessary to get a twig or briar which will bend easily, a forked stick about six inches long and a straight stick about the same length. The bird basket and other materials are then taken to some place where birds frequent. The twig or briar is then bent into a semi-circular shape and the two ends are placed on the ground with one end of the basket resting on them. The forked stick is then put standing near the basket and the straight stick is put down through the fork until it gets inside the briar or twig. If properly done the cage will hold up the edge of the basket off the ground.
When the bird sees the food it will hop on the twig. The weight of its body will cause the twig to lower down thus releasing the straight stick. The cage will then fall down and the bird will be imprisoned under it

About two hundred years ago, when Beamish took over the lands of Dooniskey there lived there a man who had accumulated a lot of gold and whose interest in the land when Beamish took it over, erased. He secured his gold in a well secured box.It was customary at the time, as it is up to the present, to hold dances or "patterns" at the cross roads.Tradition tells us, that a well attended pattern was held on summer evenings at Beamishes gate as has been often held there since. One evening, when the man of the gold attended this pattern he noticed a handkerchief protruding from a girls pocket which was quite similar to one he had in his "gold" box. He went home, and searched the box thinking it was his own handkerchief he saw in the possession of the girl but he was mistaken there. To remove all further fears and doubts from his mind, he placed the gold in a crock and hid it along side a white thorn briar in the boundary fence between Shine's and Murphy's farms. The white thorn briar is to be seen at present day growing on the fence. In later year's, it is said, that a man living in the neighbourhood dreamt that gold was hidden under the briar. At a late hour one night, he went in search of the gold and in digging up the place where it was, the noise of the bar attracted the attention of some "sguraidhtears who were returning home from a neighbour's house. Becoming

Richard Mc Carty told me a story of a man named Micheal Huzzy.
One day as two men named Jermoy Mc Mahon and Mr. James Woulfe it is supposed that they did not believe in charms. Mickey got his knife split a briar and told them to hold each end of the briar then he took a book from his pocket and began to read out of it and the two pieces began to become nearer and at last joined up together again.