DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4758573
title: Firoda

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Firoda (school) (Firoda Upper, Co. Kilkenny), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Dáithí Ó Meachair.
description: Firoda (Fíoghair Ua Duach), is a townland... -- Plan of District Showing Relative Positions of Townlands... -- Linguistic -- Words etc that Have Been Adopted into the Ordinary Speech of this District -- Ethnographic -- Historic -- Historic -- Two whiteboys Fox and Crennan were stabbed by the Toeman; -- Another account of the same event is :- At the Ballinakill side of the moate once stood the house... / Keating, Mary -- Famine / Coady, A. -- Famine -- The local "Estate" was Wandesforde's of Castlecomer. -- The O' Brennan clan ruled over this district and the following names and families have come down... / Corcoran, Bridie -- Firoda Castle / Healy, Nicholas -- Demesne Castles / Coady, Patrick -- Castle of the Dens / Keating, Mary -- Battle of Boherkyle / Brennan, Bridie -- Mass Bush / Coady, Abraham -- Holy Well / Coady, Patrick -- Old Oak Chest / Coady, Michael -- Priest on the Run to Castlecomer -- Faction Fight -- Field where a Mass Was Said / Coady, Michael -- Parnell -- Where a Soldier Was Killed -- At Dr. Farrel's gate there was a man who was dead a long time seen walking around every night. -- On Buggy's Hill there is a spirit. -- Hidden Treasure -- Weather-Lore -- Local Heroes -- Great Storms -- Great Storms -- Old Crafts -- Last Palatine -- Petticoat Loose -- The Cursing of Idough -- Boaster -- Seán na nGabhar -- Names of Fields -- Old Churches and Graveyards -- Old Cures -- Names of Raths / Walsh, Bessie -- Paddy Mc. Donald lives in Mayhora. He was ploughing a stony field. Suddenly... / Kavanagh, Thomas -- There is a rath in Chatsworth near Castlecomer. Some people say that fairies were seen there. Once upon a time... / Kavanagh, Thomas -- There is another rath in Walsh's field of... -- There is a rath in "Móinteen" near Castlecomer. It is behind two houses. One of the men was sick for years. / Walsh, Bessie -- There is a rath in Moate at the back of a house. The people in this house had always good luck. A woman... / Kavanagh, Thomas -- There is a rath near Firoda school. It is round and there are trenches dug... -- There is another [rath] in John Kelly's in Firoda and another in Rathgarra. -- There is a rath in the towns-land of Firoda and it is in a circle. A light is to be seen there now and again. There was a man... / Kavanagh, Thomas -- There is also a rath in the townsland of Ballyouskill. It is in a circle and (it is) surrounded with... -- The old fashioned churns were worked with a dash. The man that made them was called... / Walsh, Bessie -- Delaney's Chicken / Kavanagh, Thomas -- Song / Kavanagh, Thomas -- There is a man in Castlecomer named Mr. Byrne. He was a Catholic... / Walsh, Bessie -- There was a little child in Castlecomer and she was dying. / Walsh, Bessie -- Burying of the Gold -- People in Loon, Castlecomer, had a dispute with the priest and they stopped going to Mass. / Brennan, Thomas
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.