DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4622998
title: Muine an Mheadha

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Muine an Mheadha (school) (Monivea, Co. Galway), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Pádraic S. Ó h Óbáin.
description: Story / Coffey, Julia -- Story / Kelly, Kathleen -- Story / Kelly, Delia -- Customs / Lindsay, Peggie -- Customs / Kelly, Kathleen -- Customs / Kelly, Delia -- Rhymes / Flaherty, Patrick -- Rhyme / Hoban, Vincent -- Rhymes / Kelly, Kathleen -- Rhymes / Moran, Delia -- Riddles / Kelly, Kathleen -- Riddles / Lindsay, Joe -- Riddles / Burke, Annie -- Old Customs / Kelly, Delia -- Old Prayers / Kelly, Kathleen -- Cures / Burke, Annie -- Story / Kelly, Kathleen -- Sayings / Kelly, Delia -- There was once a woman living in Monivea and she was always going to the neighbours for milk... / Noone, Winnie -- Folklore Customs / Dolan, Michael -- Customs / Kelly, Delia -- In the village of Ballyskeagh there is a hill... / Kelly, Kathleen -- About a mile from here there is a spring well called Tóbhair Geall. / Lindsay, Joe -- Folklore Story / Burke, Annie -- Long ago there was a custom when a person would be dead they would put the coffin out on the cart... / Kelly, Delia -- In the village of Roundfield there is a fort and it is said that there a pot of gold in it... / Kelly, Kathleen -- There once was a man and he was very poor. / Coffey, Julia -- In the village of Monivea there is an old bush... / Lindsay, Peggy -- It is said that there was a sand pit in the village of Roundfield a very long time ago... / Coffey, John -- There is a bully stone outside Killmoy graveyard... / Mullin, Peggy -- There once was a man living near Athenry and he was very poor... / Burke, Annie -- There once lived in Roundfield a poor girl and her father was dead... / Cullen, Joe -- There is an old hill in the village of Ballyskea and it is called Biddey Earls hill... / Kelly, Delia -- There was a old hawthorn bush in the village of Roundfield... / Coffey, Julia -- There once was a man and he was coming from a visit and he met a man on the road... / Moran, Delia -- There once lived an old woman near Ryehill who was very poor. / Burke, Annie -- It is said that there was a big stone in Currintarmidh and that a man tried to dig it up but he failed... / Murphy, Tommy -- Long ago when the people used to see the blue lights in the fire they used to say that it was the sign of bad weather... / Kelly, Kathleen -- Long ago the old people used to go up to the bogs and they used to pick rushes... / Moran, Delia -- Long ago the people used to make mats of straw for the doors when the wind would be blowing. / Moran, Delia -- In the village of Ballyskea there are a lot of furze growing and in the middle of them there is a lis and there are no furze growing on it. / Kelly, Delia -- Long ago the women used to be going for water... / Dolan, Julia -- Long ago when the people would be going to the town they would carry their shoes under their arms... / Hoban, Vincent -- When Knock Moy Abbey was building the people said that it would last for hundreds of years. / Kelly, Kathleen -- Customs / Burke, Annie / Lindsay, Peggie / Coffey, Julia -- Long ago when the people used to be eating... / Kelly, Kathleen / Dolan, Julia / Moran, Delia -- Place Names / Kelly, Kathleen -- Customs / Moran, Delia / Hoban, Vincent -- Old Sayings / Coffey, Julia / Dolan, Julia -- In the village of Ballyskea there is a field... / Kelly, Delia May -- It is an old custom when a woman would be setting eggs to make the sign of the cross on the eggs with a burned stick... / Burke, Annie / Dolan, Julia / Cullen, Joe / Hoban, Vincent -- Old Sayings / Burke, Anne / Kelly, Kathleen / Moran, Delia -- Old Rhymes / Dolan, Julia -- Old Rhymes / Evoy, Madge Mc -- Rhymes / Kelly, Kathleen -- The 15th. July is called St Seden's day... / Kelly, Kathleen -- Customs / Kelly, Kathleen -- Long ago there was an old tree around Monivea... / Noone, Winnie -- In Ireland in the penal times. / Concar, Christina -- Old Sayings / Kelly, Betty -- Cures / Moran, Delia -- Old Saying / Murphy, Bridgie -- Folklore Story / Kelly, John -- Story / Kelly, Kathleen -- Customs / , Delia -- Story / Coffey, Julia -- Story / Hoban, Vincent
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.