DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4742162
title: Prosperous (B.), Naas

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Prosperous (B.), Naas (school) (Prosperous, Co. Kildare), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Ml. Ó Brosnacháin.
description: The Fianna lived sometimes in a place called the Hill of Allen. / Gladney, Maura -- There was a well in a place called Downings. I was a holy well. and it was blessed by a Saint called Farrington. / Keegan, Nan -- The Fianna lived on the Hill of Allen. This hill is situated in the north of Kildare. / Downings, Thomas -- Fionn Mac Cumhaill was very strong. It is said that he cast stones to Clane and the Curragh. -- Some distance from Allen a spot on the road is called the leap. Fionn is supposed to have jumped from the hill to this spot. / Graham, Thomas -- St. Patrick's well is sit-uated at Barrettstown near Newbridge. / Graham, Mary -- In 1798 there was a great battle in Prosperous. A great barracks stood in the midst of the village. -- Naas is a very historical town. During the Insurrection of 1798 the insurgents were badly beaten. / Booth, Francis -- At the Hill of Ovestown there was a great battle. Captain Lube commanded the forces. -- St Bridget founded a great Church and Abbey at Kildare. -- There is a Well in B;ackwood named St. Farnians Well. No cures are obtained at this well. / Graham, William -- Maynooth is a very historical town. It was the chief seat of the Geraldines. -- During the Penal Laws when priests were hunted some lived in bogs, some in caves and others in remote mountains. -- Naas was the chief seat of the Kings of Leinster. They reig-ned there for centuries. -- Edward Bruce when he came to Ireland, sorely defeated the Eng-lish. / Graham, Thomas -- During the troubled times of 1798, (their) there was a great battle at Hodgestown. -- Near Killybegs House there once stood a Chapel. Near the Church there is a grave-yard. -- There is a tower in Clane, and there once stood a great monastery. There is a winding stairs in the tower. -- About a mile north of Clane there is a place called Maingham. This was the burial place of Danish Kings. / Graham, William -- Near the Curragh there is place) a place called Donnelly's Hollow. -- In Rathcoffey there is the ruins of a great castle. Hamilton Rowan lived there. -- Before Newbridge was founded it was called O'Connell Mór. -- There were foctroies in Prosperous long ago, a hat factory, a cotton factory, and a linen factory. -- Wolfe Tone was a traitor to the English, he was in the English army. -- There is a well in Landenstown and it was used by a woman named Mrs Digby who lived there. -- There is a cross about a quarter of a mile from Prosperous and it is called Hatter's Cross... -- To see one magpie on a journey is said to be lucky but to see two magpies is unlucky. -- There were many battles in Prosperous in the time of the Old Britons. -- In Curryhills there was a linen factory. Between Sallins and Landenstown there is a well and... -- There lived in Killybegs long ago a Priest named Rev. Father Higgins. -- There is a cure used by an old woman in Prosperous for a sore throat. -- There is a castle in Blackwood which belonged to the Fitzgeralds of Leinster. -- Cornelius Kay was a hadge school master in Prosperous and he was a great poet. -- In Conleth was a great metal worker. His great work is still to be seen. -- At the South of Newbridge at a place called Pollardstown there is a prince's grave. -- Before the Insurrection of Prosperous there were rich industries in the town... -- There are many wells in Co. Kildare such as, Father Moore's Well, St. Brigid's Well, and (their) there is also... -- After the Insurrection of 1798 the rebels assembled near the Curragh at Gibbet-Rath. -- Poem of 1798 - Doorley on the Boyne -- There is a great Castle near the Hill of Carbury. This was bombed from the Hill about (17) the year 1798. -- There is a field in the village of Prosperous called the dead field. -- If you see one magpie it indicates bad luck, two for good luck, three for a wedding, four for joy, five for a christening. -- There is a well in Timahoe called Crowe's Well. There is a story told as follows... / Graham, Mary -- In the south-eastern part of Clane there is a moat. There is a queen buried in it. / Booth, Francis -- People tried to boil the water from St Patrick's Well at Barrettstown but it would not boil. -- Between Blackwood and Robertstown there is a well named St Farnims Well. -- John Doorley went to Rathangan and there fought a great army. -- In the (twelvth) twelfth century Maurice of Toole took to wife O'Byrne. / Graham, Thomas -- The Hill of Hodgestown is very historical. This hill is situated in the south-west of Prosperous. -- Once a man was going to Dublin with a cart load of turf. He had not noticed any tower when he was going.
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.