DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4811661
title: Béal na Bláth, Maghcromtha

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Béal na Bláth, Maghcromtha (school) (Bealnablath, Co. Cork), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Seán Ó Cróinín.
description: Old Story / Bradfield, John -- An Old Story / Lenihan, Helen -- Old Story / Conroy, Eileen -- Old Story / Drummy, Nan -- Old Story / Mahony, Michael O' -- An Old Story / Bradfield, Denis -- Old Story / Lennihan, Helen -- Old Story / Lennihan, Helen -- Old Story / Bradfield, John -- Local Marriage Customs / Donovan, Josie O' -- Hidden Treasure / Bradfield, Denis -- Marriage Customs / Maohny, Michael O' -- Local Place Names / Drummy, John -- Local Place Names / Donovan, Dan Joe -- Local Place Names -- The right O'Neill, that was Hugh O' Neill is buried in Rome. / Lenihan, Helen -- Local Place Names / Bradfield, Denis -- Local Place Names / Drummy, John -- Local Place Names / Bradfield, John -- Local Place Names / Donovan, Josie O' -- Signs of Weather / Bradfield, Mary -- In Poulrangrid lived a man Desmond by name. -- Weather-Lore / Drummy, Maragret -- Signs of Weather / Lennihan, Helen -- In the Penal Times / Bradfield, Denis -- Bird-Lore / Drummy, John -- In the Penal Times / Bradfield, John -- Bird-Lore / Drummy, Margaret -- Bird-Lore / Donovan, Dan Joe -- In the Penal Times / Lennihan, Helen -- Bird-Lore -- Famine Times / Donovan, Josie O' -- My Home District / Drummy, Margaret -- My Home District / Bradfield, John -- My Home District / Lennihan, Helen -- Potato Crop / Lennihan, Helen -- Potato Crop / Conroy, Eileen -- Potato Crop / Mahony, Michael O' -- Potato Crop / Donovan, Dan Joe -- Fairy Forts / Bradfield, John -- Fairy Forts / Mahony, Michael O' -- Fairy Forts / Bradfield, Denis -- Local Forges / Mahony, Michael O' -- Local Forges / Donovan, Dan Joe -- Irish Life of Long Ago / Bradfield, John -- My District -- Olden Days / Lucey, Margaret -- Other Days / Bradfield, Nora -- Food / Callaghan, Eileen -- Story / Galvin, Patrick -- Story / Drummy, John -- Folklore - An Old Story / Maohny, Michael O' -- Folklore - An Old Story / Mahony, Michael O' -- Old Houses / Lennihan, Helen -- Old Story / Healy, Willie -- About a mile from Bealnablath is a wart well. / Bradfield, Mary -- Other Days / Lennihan, Helen -- Fairs Long Ago / Conroy, Eileen -- Fairs / Drummy, Nan -- Fairs / Donovan, Josie O' -- Fairs / Galvin, Patrick -- Fairs / Bradfield, John -- Landlord / Bradfield, John -- Landlord of this Place / Mahony, Michael O' -- Landlords / Bradfield, Denis -- Travelling Years Ago -- There were two "special" women to mark the butter, the water was got from a spring well, early in the morning before the sun shone on it. -- Piseoga -- Festival Customs / Bradfield, John -- Piseoga / Bradfield, Denis -- In Kilmurry is a well called cnoc an tobar an on September 8th people used to pay rounds there. -- Food Long Ago -- Animals -- The animals that are on the farm are cows, horses, donkeys, goats, hens, ducks and calves. -- Care of Feet -- Football Matches / Bradfield, Denis -- There was a very good match played in Crossmahon between Templemartin and Canovee. -- An Old Story -- Folklore / Mahony, Michael -- Old Story / Donovan, Josie -- About 50 years ago Mr J Foley Mullinadrough near Newcestown made this song about his brother Pat and a girl that lived near the Foley's. / Bradfield, Nora -- There lived at Lachtneil up to about thirty years ago a man named Ned Sullivan who when writing to his brother in America he enclosed a sprig of heather / Callaghan, Eileen -- Folklore - Bread in Olden Times / Mahony, Michael -- Folklore - Local Monuments / Bradfield, Denis -- Folklore - Houses in Olden Times / Mahony, Michael -- Folklore / Callaghan, Thomas O' -- Folklore / Bradfield, Mary -- Old Story / Lennihan, Helen -- Folklore / Conroy, Eileen -- Folklore - Giants and Warriors / Mahony, Michael -- Old Story / Lennihan, Helen -- Old Story / Galvin, Patrick -- Old Story / Bradfield, Denis -- Religious Homes, Graveyards, Prayers / Callaghan, Thomas O'
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.