DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5070810
title: Edenagully

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Edenagully (school) (Edennagully, Co. Cavan), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher S. Ó Cléirigh.
description: Mountain -- Lough -- About two hunded years ago a man named... -- How The Cure Came To Be In The Lake -- Cairn -- It is said that there was a black hare over on a mountain near Tierworker. -- Castle At Bailieborough -- Castle Ausburn -- Fair of Muff -- Mountain -- Moybullogue / Entee, Margaret Mc -- Local Cures -- Local Place Names -- Christmas Customs -- Marriage Customs -- Saint Ciaran's Well -- Hedge School -- Hedge-School -- Riddles -- Local Heroes / Reilly, Kathleen -- Local Songs -- Malahide / Entee, Margaret Mc -- Legend Of Moybolg -- Cure Of The Running Worm -- Severe Weather -- Severe Weather -- Treasures -- Treasures -- About a hundred years ago there lived a man named Paddy Mitchel who was very poor and had nearly nothing in the house to eat. -- It is said that in the year 1888 a man named John Brown found a box of sovereigns when he was knocking down a house. -- Herbs -- The most harmful weeds growing in the district are the thistle, the dockweed, the clover, the nettle, the comfrey, and the dandelion. -- Leprechaun -- Leprechaun -- Leprechaun -- One upon a time there were two men going home from a game of cards. -- Leprechaun -- Old Crafts -- Easter Customs -- Easter Customs -- Local Fairs -- Local Fairs -- Local Fairs / Melody, Elizabeth -- Local Monuments / Melody, Elizabeth -- Local Monuments / Reilly, Mary -- Local Monuments / Lynch, Patrick -- Local Monuments / Owens, Eileen -- Ruined Castles / Clarke, Bridget -- Ruined Castles / Curtis, William -- There were under-ground vaults in it where Catholics and priests used to be punished in the penal days. / Entee, Margaret Mc -- Funny Story / Entee, Margaret Mc -- One night a lot of people were on a ceilidhe in a neighbour's house. / Clarke, Bridget -- Once upon a time a farmer's wife wanted a girl to do housework. / Clarke, Patrick -- There lived three men at one time. / Lynch, Patrick -- In Moybollogue cemetery there is the ruins of an old church in which it is said Saint Patrick read mass in it. / Owens, Eileen -- There was a castle in Muff some hundred years ago. / Lynch, P. -- Once upon a time there was a man who suffered from the toothache. / Owens, Eileen -- There once was a man who had a great orchard of apples and he had a very funny servant boy hired / Reilly, Kathleen -- Bird-Lore -- Wild Animals -- Local Roads -- Strange Animals -- Bread -- Haunted Houses / Reilly, Mary -- Haunted Houses / Entee, Margaret Mc -- Haunted Houses / Mahon, Molly Mc -- This story concerns a traveller who was making his way home on Christmas Eve. / Bennet, Kathleen -- Ghost Story / Melady, Elizabeth -- Ghost Stories / Clarke, Bridget -- Ghost Story / Mahon, Charles Mc -- Ghost Story / Curtis, William -- Ghost Stories / Mahon, Theresa Mc -- Battle of Muff / Lynch, Patrick -- Travelling Folk -- Religious Stories / Owens, Eileen -- Prayer For A Man Deceased -- Story / Reilly, Theresa -- Local Graveyards / Melady, Elizabeth -- Children's Games -- Halloween Customs / Curtis, William -- Halloween Customs -- May Day Customs / Clarke, Bridget -- May Day Customs -- Churning / Melady, Elizabeth -- Churning / Owens, Eileen -- Signs of the Weather / Reilly, Kathleen
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.