DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5009264
title: Newbawn

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Newbawn (school) (Newbawn, Co. Wexford), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Seán de Buitléir.
description: One night a woman and her son were sitting by the fire and the woman asked him why was he not going to bed. / Gill, Anne -- There was a man living near this locality and his name was Mick Malone and he would go every night to play cards to Jhon(sic.) Hughes' house. / Stafford, Tom -- There was a crock of gold hidden in a rath near my house. / Culleton, John -- There was a man one time in this locality and he went to the town of New Ross. / Sullivan, Martin O -- There was a man living in this parish and his name was Peter Cullen. / Butler, Walter -- In the Parish of Cushinstown years ago the priest was called out one night on a sick call and when he came to a certain gate... / Power, Thomas -- There is a style in Faree and it was said that ten yards from this style there was a crock of gold under a flat stone. / Power, Tom -- There was man one time in this parish and he was very fond of playing cards and he used to go every night... / Butler, Walter -- There was once a Protestant house in Newbawn parish and it was said to be haunted. / Banville, Patrick -- There was a man named Richard Murphy coming from a certain house in Kilbraney and it was about 12 o'clock at night. / Monaghan, William -- There was a loot of gold hid under the step of the door of the castle of Newbawn. / Dillon, Michael -- There was a man one time in the parish of Clongeen and he was very fond of playing cards in public-houses. / Sullivan, Martin O -- There was a man in Old Ross and his name was Patrick Carty. / Power, Thomas -- There was a man living in a little house in Ballyshannon and he was very fond of drink and his name was Maurice Kehoe. / Butler, Walter -- There was a man coming home one night from Park by the name of Jim Shannon. / Culleton, John -- Long ago there lived an old woman in Newcastle who used to attend and nurse all the sick people of her neighbourhood. / White, Nellie -- There was a man living in this parish and his name was John Furlong and he was very poor. / Butler, Walter -- There were a woman and a man living near this locality long ago and their names were Martin and Mary Doyle. / Stafford, Thomas -- There was a man living in this parish and he had plenty of gold and he had it buried in the garden at the back of the house. / Butler, Walter -- Long ago there lived an old man by the name of Mick Cullen. / White, Nellie -- There was a man coming home from rambling one night and as he was coming at the bridge of Cullenstown it was between 12 and 1 o'clock. / White, James -- I know a little round house and it is full of meat. It has neither doors or windows to let me in to eat. -- There used to be a green light coming from a kiln and going into a wood near my house. / Culleton, John -- There is a church yard in this parish and every night about 12 o'clock a light rises out of one of the corners.
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.