DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5177653
title: Ballycar, Cuinche

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Ballycar, Cuinche (school) (Ballycar, Co. Clare), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Liam Mac Clúin.
description: Story of "Cnoc Tuighe" -- Poor Scholars -- Curse of the Friars / #missing, -- The Creagh Crest -- Story of the Cholera Years -- Davy the Poet -- Story of the Silver Chalice -- Carn Éithigh -- Cathair Caoin -- Cnoc Bartúin -- You evicted your peasants, ¶ To make room for the pheasants, ¶ And I want none of your presents -- The yeomanry had barracks in Quin and during '98 they captured a man who refused to divulge any information to them -- Piseoga -- About seventy years ago Mr Smyth lived in Ardsollus Cottage. -- Story -- Story -- Prayers -- O'Duffy '98 Man -- Browne of Newgrove -- Ballycar Gold Find -- Mrs Murphy's daughter complained of a pain in her right leg -- Dennis Mc Inerney -- Cáit Ní Chiurc -- Leprechaun -- About forty years ago lived Mr John Blood in Ballykilty. -- Lorgadán -- There is a large stone in Ballyhannon Farm convenient ro Culshainroge Farm. -- Mause -- tAdhastairín Buí -- There was a woman in Newmarket-on-Fergus and she dreamt that there was gold hid in lug a' bhaile. -- A quarell arose in a bog between two men -- A farmer was carting home hay one autumn evening. -- One time a man in North Clare dreamt that there was gold hidden in Thomond Bridge. -- There was a man one time, and he had a very disobedient, headstrong son -- One time the husband, son and brother of a certain woman were condemned to death -- Trí saghas fear - fear grafaigh -- Michael Markham and Pat Corbett were bosom companions -- There is a fort within twenty feet of his dwelling house -- An Féar Gorta -- Cholera Stone -- Quin Abbey -- Maggie Malone -- Going Astray -- Tom O'Dea was an indifferent character -- Two brothers Jack and Paddy lived with their mother in a ramshackle of a thatched house. -- Night of the Big Wind -- The Enchanted Lake -- Long ago there was a certain man living in Ralahine, Newmarket-on-Fergus / Hartigan, Tom -- Long ago there was a man and he had about ten cows. / Hartigan, Tom -- Long ago there was a man and he was not obeying the Penal Laws / Hartigan, Tom -- Long ago there was a man living in Bunratty and the way he had for a living was by playing a fiddle / Hartigan, Tom -- Once upon a time a farmer lived in the parish of Newmarket-on-Fergus. / Inerney, Mary Mc -- Biddy Early was a famous Clare witch that lived during the early half of the last century / Inerney, Mary Mc -- Long ago three giants were living together in Co. Clare. / Inerney, Mary Mc -- Long ago the mermaid used to be seen in Fenloe Lake and she combing her hair with a golden comb / Inerney, Mary Mc -- Piseoga / Inerney, Mary Mc -- May Eve / Inerney, Mary Mc -- When there was a dairy in Ralahine demesne there was a bleach yard which contained one acre / Enright, John -- Long ago there was a nice man in Ballycar who owned a valuable stallion / Flanaghan, Mary -- Long ago there was a girl and she was very ill / Flanaghan, Mary -- Long ago there was a man and he had seven horses / Hartigan, Tom -- Long ago there was a cruel steward in Ralahine / Hartigan, Tom -- Once upon a time there was a man in Moohane named Purcell / Neill, Lizzie O' -- Long ago a certain woman living in Newmarket-on-Fergus had unexpected visitors / Neill, Lizzie O' -- A man and his companion went hunting rabbits in Crusheen one day / Neill, Lizzie O' -- Patt Moylan of Madara Quin Co Clare was going to Limerick with a creel of pigs to sell -- Wm Slattery Moyriesk Quin Co Clare was very friendly with Mr Tom Singleton a protestant gentleman -- Biddy Early's Bottle / Leary, Teresa O' -- In the bad times the poor people had no land to sow potatoes / Mahon, Tom Mc -- Long ago when tge railway line was being made between Ennis and Limerick / Liddy, Philomena -- There was a very rich man one time / Guerin, Jim -- When Mr Quinlan died about thirty years ago, an old woman named Mrs Mc Namara caoined over him. / Flanagan, Mary -- Long ago when the Mail Coach was passing Cnoc Barton a man jumped from inside a wall and robbed it / Leary, Jessie O' -- About fifty years ago there was a mermaid in Newhall Lake / Leary, Jessie O' -- There was a man in Drumbingle called Bawney O' Leary / Leary, James O' -- When Martin Fahy was a young man he used to go in his cuaird to Creevagh / Guerin, Martin -- There was a man tralle, travelling from Galway to Limerick one day. / Guerin, Martin -- There is an old stone in Mr Hewitt's field / Guerin, Jimmy -- There is, was a main road from Limerick to Galway / Guerin, Jimmy -- Some years ago a man went from Ballycar to Manchester to work / Inerney, Mary Mc -- About a hundred years ago sheep were very plentiful in Ireland / Flanagan, Mary -- A cuairdaidhe that used to visit his house every night got ill / Mahon, Tom Mc -- Long ago the mermaid used to be seen in Fenloe lake and she combing her hair with a golden comb / Inerney, Mary Mc -- Long ago there was a mill in Ralahine / Enright, John -- His neighbour Pat Hogan was going to the fair of Ennis one summer morning / Enright, John -- Long ago an old hag was in Rahaline fort. / Enright, John -- Seán buidhe was a jockey that lived in Dromoland in olden days / Liddy, Philomena -- When St Colman was a little boy, he lived with a farmer in Co. Galway / Liddy, Philomena -- Long ago it was the custom that when May Morning would come every farmer would go and see if any of his crops were gone / Guerin, Martin -- There is a place near my house garrdha árd. / Leary, James O' -- There was a man in the parish of Newmarket named Mack a few years ago / Leary, James O' -- Long ago when anyone would get a pain in his or her head three spoons of tea / Flanagan, Katty -- Long ago there was a poor man and he only had one cow / Flanagan, Katty -- There is a field in Ralahine called crag buide because it is covered with bushes / Enright, John -- There was a man one time and he used to go in his cuaird to a special house / Guerin, Martin -- When he brought the silver from Quin he dug the hole better and put the silver into it -- A cuardaithe that used to visit his house every night got ill, / Mahon, Tom Mc -- His neighbour Pat Hogan was going to the fair of Ennis one summer morning / Enright, John -- The ruins of an ancient church are to be seen there / Inerney, Mary Mc -- Ballycar was once a quaint old place / Flanagan, Mary -- Long ago in the famine years the poor people used to be provided with porridge every day. / Flanagan, Mary -- Tom Crowe was in his cuaird in Rylane one night / Flanagan, Katty
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.