DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5009123
title: Lower Warren

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Lower Warren (school) (Warren Lower, Co. Westmeath), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Liam Mac Coiligh.
description: Irish Words and Phrases in Use in School District -- Notes - Ethnographic -- Seventy or eighty Years ago there was no soap made or too dear to buy people used urine as a bleacher for clothes -- Big Wind -- Katie Mara's House in Tully / Mara, Katie -- Story / Bracken, Agnes -- Story -- Story / Mara, Katie -- Story / Grennan, Maggie -- Fairy Passes in the School District -- Rehan - Townland - How it Got its Name / Cox, Liam F. -- Dillons / Fitzpatrick, Sean -- Dillons -- Dillons -- O' Brians -- Dillons / Hatton, Eddie -- The McAuley lived in Tully. -- Dillons / Hughes, Fred -- Dillons -- Murtots -- Dillons -- Strong Men / Kerwan, Matty -- Funny Story / Mara, Paddie -- Story / Hughes, Fred -- Story / Dempsey, Peter -- Folklore -- Folklore / Doolan, Anne -- Folklore / Dempsey, Brian -- Story -- Story - The Fox Escapes through a Hole in the Roof / Cox, Liam F. -- Drownings in School District / Kevnan, John -- Sowens -- Flummery -- Fox Gets Rid of Fleas / Fitzpatrick, Sean -- Seven Soupers -- Mr Temple's Dogs Graveyard -- House Burnings / Hughes, Fred -- Big Wind / Kevnan, John -- Drownings / Fitzpatrick, Michael -- Hedge-Schools etc / Kerwan, Mattie -- Flax-Weaving in the School District -- Patrick Delonta was a hedge schoolmaster. / Hughes, Fred -- There was a hedge schoolmaster in Ballykieran. -- Story / Cox, Liam F. -- Gooseberry Charm - For Sty in the Eye -- Seventh Son Charm / Hatton, Eddie -- Burns -- Seventh Son / Fitzpatrick, Sean -- Charms -- Warts -- A pain in the back can be cured by a person who is not born proper and put three times out under an ass. / Hughes, Fred -- Old Schools / Mara, Paddie -- Old Sayings, Riddles etc Common in the District / Fox, Maura -- Riddles / Hughes, Fred -- Riddles / Murray, Nellie -- How Twyford Got its Name / Hatton, Eddie -- Banshee / Hatton, Eddie -- Story about St Patrick / Murray, Joe -- Story about Twy Lake / Murray, Joe -- How Twy Got its Name -- Tury House was a nunnery in olden times. -- Some time ago if a Protestant man wanted to buy a horse, he would go to a Catholic man to buy a horse. / Fitzpatrick, Sean -- Charms etc - Ringworm -- Mass Path -- Festival Customs -- Mass Rock / Hughes, Fred -- According to an old belief you will never have luck, if you build a house on a fairy pass. / Fox, Maura -- Weasels / Dempsey, Peter -- Penal Days -- Mass Rocks etc -- Marriage Custom / Kerwan, Mattie -- Hedge-Schools / Mara, Dora -- Riddles / Kirwan, Mattie -- Story / Dempsey, Brian -- Hedge-School / Murray, Ellen -- Old Schools / Mara, Paddie -- Funeral Customs / Hughes, Eddie -- Funeral Customs / Hughes, Fred -- Wake Customs -- Forfeits / Walker, Evelyn -- Games That used to be Played at Wakes - Sacks in the Kill -- Wakes, etc. - Horns / Dempsey, Peadar -- Games That Used to be Played at Wakes Long Ago - Basket of Flowers -- Games That Used to be Played at Wakes Long Ago - Hold Fast -- Games That Used to be Played at Wakes Long Ago - Washing the Linen -- Wake Game - All Birds Fly / Hatton, Eddie -- Wake Game - Penal Days / Murray, Ellen -- Puss in Boots / Murray, Joe -- Paddy McCarthy and his Money / , Nellie Murray -- There was once upon a time a man named Doolan and he had no hay to give his cow and he went to Twy to steal a bundle of hay. / Fitzpatrick, Sean -- Golden Bird -- Once upon a time my father seen a rat leading another blind rat to a hole. -- Story / Dalton, Michael -- Story -- Three Wishes / Fox, William -- Lakes in the School District -- P' Donovan Rossa / Cox, L. F. -- Robbin's Lake / Grennan, Maggie -- Robbin's Lake -- Waterstown Lake -- Irish Pipers / Hughes, Fred -- Funny Story / Donohue, Bertie -- In the school district: 1) It is not lucky to put out ashes on Monday or Sunday. -- Folk Stories - Animal Tales - Race between Fox and Hedgehog / Fitzpatrick, Sean -- Story / Murray, Nellie -- Story / Murray, Nellie -- Boy Steals Giant's Treasures -- Story / Cox, Liam F. -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Funny Story / Kirwan, Mattie -- Story / Dalton, John -- Story of Woodpigeon and Magpie -- Story about a Grouse / Hughes, Fred -- Local Cures - Warts -- Local Cures - Yellow Jaundice -- List of Homemade Toys -- Snare -- Ruined Churches -- Story about the Bush of the Bog in Maghera / Fitzpatrick, Michael -- Place Names etc Common to the District -- Famine / Mara, Kathleen -- Famine / Coiligh, Liam P. Mac -- Linen-Making in School District / Kerwan, John -- Local Place Names / Dempsey, Brian -- Story / Dempsey, Peter -- Famine Times / Dempsey, Brian -- Famine / Dempsey, Brian -- Famine Times / Kirwan, Matt -- Story - How Willie the Wisp Got his Name / Mara, Dora -- Local Roads / Mara, Dora -- Old Roads / Hughes, Fred -- Old Roads / Kirwan, Mattie -- Old Road / Mara, Paddie -- Story / Murray, Nellie -- Fairy Forts / Fitzpatrick, Michael -- Fairy Forts / Kirwan, Mattie -- Fairy Forts / Hynds, Denis -- Fairy Fort / Mara, Dora -- Fairy Forts / Mara, Paddie -- Story / Dempsey, Brian -- Fairy Forts / Murray, Nellie -- Fairies -- Old Characters of the District -- Cures / Lowe, Eric -- School Games / Mara, Katty -- Holy Wells / Murray, Nellie -- Holy Wells / Dempsey, Brian -- Herbs / Hughes, Fred -- Gobán Saor / Hughes, Fred -- Gobán Saor / Hughes, Patrick -- Leipreachán / Hughes, Fred -- Leipreachán / Fitzpatrick, Nan -- by old Dukes and her father (or grandfather) often saw bombs thrown at the old church -- Mr James Duffy's house in Church St. - big and strong house, was used by English soldiers -- Long ago soldiers used to be billeted in the houses in the town of Moate, -- Custom Gap -- Dead Wall -- Old Boys' School
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.