DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4922276
title: Bealach, Bansha

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Bealach, Bansha (school) (Ballagh, Co. Tipperary), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher S. Meiscill.
description: There is a lis or fort in Ballinlough about a half mile S. W. of Bansha. -- This is a another incident Mr. Wall related to me concerning the fort referred to in the previous story:- 'My grandfather and a friend of his were putting out topdressing one day in the field next to fort.' -- The story is about a large stone which now lies at the side of the Bansha - Galbally road in the townland of Gortavoher. -- In Lisnagaul about two and a half miles from Bansha in the farm of Mr W. Bourke there is said to be gold gold buried in a fort there. -- The Miller was a very important person years ago. -- When I was a young man - about 40 years ago I used to play cards. I lived in Scart then. -- Athassal Abbey - Earl of Ruadh -- Caddwick's Well -- Fourpenny Road -- Dark Road -- Rathcloheen - Ráth Cloichín -- Rathcloheen - Ráth Cloichín -- Rathcloheen - Ráth Cloichín -- Con Murphy who lived on the Thomastown-Golden Road was cutting hay in the fort once and he was making cocks of it. A fairy wind ('sí gaoithe') and carried a cock away up in the air. -- Leinster Road -- Green Road -- Pound of Meal -- Thomastown Castle / Moloney, M. -- This is a true ghost-story. It was related to me by Mrs M. Fitzgerald, Golden, Co. Tipperary. -- Castle Mary -- Ashe Family -- Moore of Ashgrove House -- Ashe Family -- The celebrated beauty of Bansha. The colour of her hair to amber. I compare and her stature like the cedar of Hydea. -- Wren's Day -- Riddles -- Old Houses / Dálaigh, Seán Ó -- Keating Eviction / Meiscill, S. Ó -- There is a woman named Mrs Edmond O' Dwyer, living in Booleen, Bansha and she told me how her mother used to make candles eighty years ago. -- Local Industries -- Coopers - Keelers (Ciléir) -- Cooler - Keeler -- Weaving -- The last Hedge-Schoolmaster to teach in the district was dressed in the following manner. -- Darby Ryan - The Bansha Poet -- Mr James Wall of Bansha told me about the following people whom he knew about 50 years. / Dálaigh, Seán Ó -- Darby Ryan - The Bansha Poet -- Ashgrove's Sporting Green -- Sweet Kate of Ardobreen -- Dawson's Seat -- Fox Chase -- Will -- Bithiúnach an Bhricfeasta -- The following are some of the Irish terms used by the late 'Het' Grogan. -- I have here some stray verses which I took down from one Domhnaillín Beag Ó Riain of Ros an Droichid, An Bháinseach, about 1905. -- The following song I got from Mr Seán Grogan, Longford Technical School. It was written by Darby Ryan, Poet, of Ashgrove, Bansha Co. Tipperary on a 'Saor-Seán' called Tomás Ó Duibhir. -- The following is another verse taken down from Domhnaillín Beag Ó Riain and said by him to have been composed by Darby Ryan. -- Is fearr an sean-dhíól na sean-fhalaí... / Marwell, H. -- There is a lis or fort in Ballinlough about a half mile S. W. of Bansha. -- This is a another incident Mr. Wall related to me concerning the fort referred to in the previous story:- 'My grandfather and a friend of his were putting out topdressing one day in the field next to fort.' -- The story is about a large stone which now lies at the side of the Bansha - Galbally road in the townland of Gortavoher. -- In Lisnagaul about two and a half miles from Bansha in the farm of Mr W. Bourke there is said to be gold gold buried in a fort there. -- The Miller was a very important person years ago. -- When I was a young man - about 40 years ago I used to play cards. I lived in Scart then. -- Athassal Abbey - Earl of Ruadh -- Caddwick's Well -- Fourpenny Road -- Dark Road -- Rathcloheen - Ráth Cloichín -- Rathcloheen - Ráth Cloichín -- Rathcloheen - Ráth Cloichín -- Con Murphy who lived on the Thomastown-Golden Road was cutting hay in the fort once and he was making cocks of it. A fairy wind ('sí gaoithe') and carried a cock away up in the air. -- Leinster Road -- Green Road -- Pound of Meal -- Thomastown Castle / Moloney, M. -- This is a true ghost-story. It was related to me by Mrs M. Fitzgerald, Golden, Co. Tipperary. -- Castle Mary -- Ashe Family -- Moore of Ashgrove House -- Ashe Family -- The celebrated beauty of Bansha. The colour of her hair to amber. I compare and her stature like the cedar of Hydea. -- Wren's Day -- Riddles -- Old Houses / Dálaigh, Seán Ó -- Keating Eviction / Meiscill, S. Ó -- There is a woman named Mrs Edmond O' Dwyer, living in Booleen, Bansha and she told me how her mother used to make candles eighty years ago. -- Local Industries -- Coopers - Keelers (Ciléir) -- Cooler - Keeler -- Weaving -- The last Hedge-Schoolmaster to teach in the district was dressed in the following manner. -- Darby Ryan - The Bansha Poet -- Mr James Wall of Bansha told me about the following people whom he knew about 50 years. / Dálaigh, Seán Ó -- Darby Ryan - The Bansha Poet -- Ashgrove's Sporting Green -- Sweet Kate of Ardobreen -- Dawson's Seat -- Fox Chase -- Will -- Bithiúnach an Bhricfeasta -- The following are some of the Irish terms used by the late 'Het' Grogan. -- I have here some stray verses which I took down from one Domhnaillín Beag Ó Riain of Ros an Droichid, An Bháinseach, about 1905. -- The following song I got from Mr Seán Grogan, Longford Technical School. It was written by Darby Ryan, Poet, of Ashgrove, Bansha Co. Tipperary on a 'Saor-Seán' called Tomás Ó Duibhir. -- The following is another verse taken down from Domhnaillín Beag Ó Riain and said by him to have been composed by Darby Ryan. -- Is fearr an sean-dhíól na sean-fhalaí... / Marwell, H.
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.