DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4428031
title: Beann-chorr

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Beann-chorr (school) (Banagher, Co. Mayo), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Tadhg Ó Hairt.
description: Hidden Treasure at Rathfran Abbey, County Mayo / Clarke, Martin -- St Cummin's Clay / Clarke, Martin -- How Saint Cummin Came to Kilcummin / Kelly, Teresa -- Folklore / Kelly, Teresa -- How Saint Cummin Came to Kilcummin / Hale, Mary Mc -- Performing Stations at Saint Cummin's Well / Hale, Mary Mc -- Saint Cummin Story / Clarke, John -- Saint Patrick and Foghill -- How to Perform Stations at Saint Patrick's Well, Foghill / Lynn, Madeline -- Cures for the Whooping-Cough / Farrell, Michael -- Story - The Rógaire Dubh / Lynn, Madeline -- 'Black Stones' of Lacken Strand / Lynn, Kathleen -- Cure for Stye in the Eye - An Infallible Cure / Harte, T. -- Local Dye / Clarke, Michael -- Red Colonel / Lynn, Kathleen -- Saint Cummin / Duggan, James -- Saint Cummin's Flag / Duggan, James -- Saint Cummin's Clay / Duggan, James -- Ghost at the White Gates at Cortoon, Killala -- How Castlemagee Got Its Name / Loughney, Paterick -- Saint Cummin / Loughney, Maura -- Bourke of Castlemagee / Lynn, Simon -- Folk Story - Stabbing the Ghost / Lynn, Madeline -- Folk Story - The Black Handle Knife against the Wave / Hale, Mary Mc -- How Saint Cummin Came / Lynn, Simon -- Saint Cummin's Flag and Clay / Lynn, Simon -- Schoolhouse of this District before Banagher School Was Built in the Year 1882 / Hale, Mary Mc -- Story - The Dog with the Magic Wand - The Haunted Room - Tussle with a Ghost / Kelly, Teresa -- Bargaining with the Devil / Lynn, Madeline -- Story - Mail, Meal / Farrell, Thomas -- Will o' the Wisp or locally Willie the Wisp / Harte, T. -- Willie the Wisp in Forge Village / Collins, Thomas -- Spirit Coach of Castlelackan / Nulty, Michael Mc / Harte, T. -- Bourke of Castlemagee / Coultry, Briget -- Closed Room of Castlelackan / Lynn, Kathleen -- Story - Annie Loughney Met the Death before Her Time / Nulty, Mary Mc -- Pride in Foghill / Nulty, Mary Mc -- Story - Learning English for Profit / Farrell, Michael -- Drowning Disaster in Killala Bay, January 6th 1831 -- Story - The Three Counsels / Hale, Katie Mc -- Warning of Death / Hale, Katie Mc -- In the Olden Times - Migrants to Lackan / Nulty, Michael Mc -- Story - The Seven Foolish Sons -- Hidden Treasure / Lean, Mary Mc -- Story - The Dead Returned / Lean, Mary Mc -- Dividing the Spoil / Hale, Mary Mc -- Shooting the Ghost / Coultry, Bridget -- Ghost that Had the Fine Time / Coultry, Bridget -- Priest and the Colonel / Nulty, Mary Mc -- Omen of Death / Nulty, May Mc -- Cure for Thorn in Any Part of the Body / Clarke, Martin -- Cure for Burns / Clarke, Martin -- Well at Castlemagee / Clarke, Martin -- Underground Passage at Ballinaleck / Clarke, Martin -- Devil Visits His Own / Lynn, Madeline -- Old School at Moneen, Killala -- Underground Chambers and Passages -- Fairy Battlefield in Kilcummin / Clane, Mary Mc -- Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail against it - Folk Story / Lean, Mary Mc -- Coming of the French to Kilcummin August 1798 - Humbert's Stone / Loftus, Nell -- Poll a' Dóibe / Lean, Mary Mc -- Story - The Cat and the King's Daughter / Lean, Mary Mc -- John Kelly of Church Village (Baile an Teampaill), Kilcummin, Still Living Saw a Mermaid / Kelly, Teresa -- Folk Story - The Boy and the Giant / Loughney, Maura -- Champion Pugilist of Lackan - Pat Loughney of Baile na Ceárta (Forge Village) / Coultry, Bridge -- Fairy Pin / Hale, Mary Mc -- Drowning Disaster in Lacken Bay October 1927 / Clarke, Martin -- Signs of the Weather / Coultry, Kathleen -- No Salmon in Lacken Bay or Cluanallaghan River - The Reason / Clane, Mary Mc -- Guesses / Lynn, Simon -- Cursing Stone of Kilcummin / Kelly, Teresa -- Cure for Jaundice / Harte, T.
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.