DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4428067
title: Corra-bheagáin

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Corra-bheagáin (school) (Corraveggaun West, Co. Mayo), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Pádhraic Mac Congamhna.
description: In a certain village there lived a man who owned a cow. / Flynn, Peggy -- Once upon a time long ago there lived a man in a village called Curroy which is situated beside the public road and is three and a half miles south of Ballina. / Flynn, Peggy -- There was once a man long ago who lived in Ballymacredmond which is about three hundred yards from the public road and three and a half miles south of Ballina. / Flynn, Peggy -- Long ago in Ireland the young boys always gathered nuts for November's night. / Flynn, Peggy -- Once upon a time there lived a man and a woman who had three sons. / Flynn, Peggy -- There was once a man a long time ago living in Derrymonan. / Lynch, Kathleen -- Once upon a time there lived a man who made noggins / Lynch, Kathleen -- There was once a man a very long time ago living in Tavanaghmore, which is a mountainous district situated between Foxford and Ballina. / Lynch, Kathleen -- There was once a man and his wife living together. / Lynch, Kathleen -- There was once a man who had three cows. / Lynch, Kathleen -- There was once a priest who kept a servant boy. / Lynch, Kathleen -- Once upon a time there was a man who was very poor. / Lynch, Kathleen -- Once upon a time there lived an old piper who had no sense. / Lynch, Kathleen -- Once upon a time long ago it was said that there were two men making poteen in Raheen which is a place in a field belonging to Tom Timlin, Currabaggan. / Timlin, Agnes -- Once upon a time there was a man who left his penknife after him in the graveyard. / Timlin, Agnes -- There was once a couple and they had a servant boy. / Timlin, Agnes -- There was once a gentleman whose name was Colonel Martin. / Timlin, Agnes -- One day a man was drawing home his turf from the bog with his ass and cart. / Ferguson, Thomas -- Once upon a time there lived a man in Currabaggan who had three cows. / Ferguson, Thomas -- Once upon a time there was a man who used to be out late at night card playing. -- Once upon a time a woman and three maidens lived in a forest. / Hale, Nellie Mc -- Once upon a time there lived two women. They were neighbours. / Hale, Nellie Mc -- There were once three men who one morning were going to the fair. / Hale, Nellie Mc -- There was once a man from the parish of Backs who went to the fair in Castlebar. / Breslin, Rita -- Once upon a time there lived a man in Derrimonan which is a village in the parish of Backs. / Breslin, Rita -- Once upon a time there lived a man named Gobniu in Ireland. / Breslin, Rita -- Once upon a time there was a house in which a ghost was to be seen. / Hale, Nellie Mc -- Once upon a time there lived in a village a man and his wife. / Hale, Nellie Mc -- Once upon a time there was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters. / Breslin, Rita -- About a hundred years ago there lived a little girl named Annie Deacy in a village named Knockmore in the parish of Bailenahaglish. / Flynn, Joan -- There were once two men living in a village near Foxford. / Flynn, Joan -- Once upon a time there were three brothers whose names were Dick, Harry and Tom. / Hale, Patrick Mc -- There was a tailor living in Currabaggan long ago. / Hale, Patrick Mc -- Pádraig Falson was a very poor man. He said to his wife Mary, "I must go to the forge to get my spade mended." / Hale, Patrick Mc -- Once upon a time there was a woman who had three sons. / Cannon, John -- Once upon a time there lived two sisters together in a mountain. / Cannon, John -- Ballymacredmond is a village situated in the parish of Ballynahaglish about four miles south of Ballina and convenient to the main road leading from Ballina to Pontoon. / Flynn, Peggy -- Over a hundred years ago a man named Dick Bourke lived in the village of Ballymacredmond. / Flynn, Peggy -- There was once a rich man who had a lot of servants. / Flynn, Peggy -- Once upon a time there lived a king who had a beautiful daughter. / Flynn, Peggy -- Long ago there lived a king who had a beautiful wife. / Flynn, Peggy -- There was once a king long ago and he had three sons. / Timlin, Agnes -- There was once a married couple and they had three daughters. / Timlin, Agnes -- There was once a man and his wife who had only two daughters. / Timlin, Agnes -- There is a field in Shanclough called the Chapel field and there was a Catholic chapel built on it in the olden times. / Langan, Mary -- Once upon a time, a man had three sons, and he was just as fond of one as he was of the other. / Langan, Mary -- Weather-Lore -- Signs of Rough and Bad Weather -- Riddles -- Old Marriage Customs -- Pádraig Bourke from Tooreen Knockmore in the parish of Backs was looked upon as the strongest man in the parish. -- Currabaggan is a village in the parish of Backs and is five miles south of Ballina to the west of the River Moy. / Flynn, Peggy
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.