DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5008904
title: Whitecross, Julianstown

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Whitecross, Julianstown (school) (Whitecross, Co. Meath), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Criostóir Breathnach.
description: Gold that Was Never Found / Landy, Peggy -- Treasure Trove / Duffy, Leo -- Collier the Robber / Murtagh, Una -- Napper Tandy / Murtagh, Una -- Patrick Sarsfield / Boylan, Eileen -- My Experience of a Hedge-School Teacher / Landy, Peggy -- Hedge-School Master / Duffy, Leo -- White Cross / Duffy, Leo -- Strange Stories / Boylan, Eileen -- Ancient Cross -- Burial List / Brien, Shiela O -- Old Chapel / Boylan, Eileen -- Gallows Hill / Boylan, Eileen -- Camp Field / Boylan, Eileen -- King James the Second's Bed / Bird, May -- Old Freize Mill / Boylan, Eileen -- Bleach Mill / Boylan, Eileen -- Turnpike / Murtagh, Una -- How a Robber Was Robbed / Murtagh, Una -- Wreck of "The Henry" / Curran, Thos -- Famous Men / Landy, Peggy -- On a Shipwreck / Kilmartin, Jos. -- St Columbcille's Well / Landy, Peggy -- St Patrick's Well / Landy, Peggy -- Old Forge and Sawmills / Brien, Chrissie O -- Two Old Lime-Kilns / Cann, Peter Mc -- Home Industries - Candle-Making / Landy, Peggy -- Shovel Maker / Cann, Peter Mc -- Spinning and Quilting / Boylan, Eileen -- Cooper House / Boylan, Eileen -- Peter the Hosier / Donovan, Mary -- Funny Story / Landy, Peggy -- Funny Story / Boylan, Eileen -- Funny Story / Murtagh, Una -- Weather Signs / Boylan, Eileen -- Weather Signs / Landy, Peggy -- Weather Signs / Boylan, Eileen -- Where a Ghost is Settled / Boylan, Eileen -- How a Protestant Doctor Saved a Priest / Landy, Peggy -- Hoarders / Donald, Mrs Mc -- Strange Story / Boylan, Eileen -- Field of the Fairies / Boylan, Eileen -- Famous Wrestler / Landy, Peggy -- Famous Poacher / Boylan, Eileen -- Members of Ballygarth Rowing Club / Bird, May -- Great Irish Writer and Poet / Brien, Chrissie O -- Two Great Thunder-Storms / Cann, Peter Mc -- Year of the Great Drought / Bird, May -- Fr Matthew's Meeting at Kilsharvan / Boylan, Eileen -- Dan O'Connell's Meeting at Drogheda / Landy, Peggy -- Means of Travel Sixty Years Ago / Cann, Peter Mc -- Fairies and Their Doings / Donohue, Rena -- Fairy Fort / Boylan, Eileen -- Fort of the Music / Landy, Peggy -- Grattans' Football Team / Landy, Peggy -- Moat of the Ninch / Kilmartin, J. -- Champion High Jumper / Duffy, Leo -- How a Poacher Was Frightened / Landy, Peggy -- Fairy Story / Landy, Peggy -- Sarsfieldstown / Brien, Chrissie O -- Mosney / Brien, May O -- Local Forge - Shallon / Landy, Peggy -- Another Old Forge / Cann, Peter Mc -- Local Forge / Boylan, Eileen -- Local Forge / Walsh, Angela -- Proverbs / Landy, Peggy -- Proverbs / Donovan, Mary -- Proverbs / Boylan, Eileen -- Proverbs / Donohue, Rena -- Proverbs / Brien, May O' -- Homemade Toys / Boylan, Eileen -- Homemade Toys / Landy, Peggy -- Homemade Toys / Walsh, Angela -- Homemade Toys / Brien, May O -- Homemade Toys / Reid, Esther -- Prayers -- Place Names / Boylan, Eileen -- Place Names / Duffy, Leo -- Names of Fields / Boylan, Eileen -- Superstitions -- Irish Eviction Scheme / Walsh, Angela -- Laytown Fire / Kilmartin, Joseph -- My Home District / Kilmartin, Joseph -- Chapel of Ballygarth / Boylan, Eileen -- Story of St Patrick / Lynch, Peggy -- Whitecross School / Boylan, Eileen -- Cures / Boylan, Eileen -- History / Landy, Peggy -- Old Chapel of Julianstown / Boylan, Eileen -- Superstition / Walsh, Angela
description: Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.