DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5009265
title: Carrigbyrne

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Carrigbyrne (school) (Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Máire Cuirtéis.
description: Ballad - The Ballyshannon Lane -- Carrigbyrne -- Carrigbyrne -- Rock of Carrigbyrne -- Farewell, old Raheen I'm going to leave you, Where I spent many a pleasant day -- Stories / French, Kitty -- A soldier from Co. Wexford went to Norway. He met a man in some part of Norway. / French, Kitty -- There's an ould castle in Mr Ennis's field in Newbawn. / French, Kitty -- There's a small garden which is called the Bullawn belongin to Mr. Power. / French, Kitty -- There was a man named Crawford, an' he was workin' at Boydes o Bannow. / French, Kitty -- Long ago there used to be a bone fire in Nash on the 29th of June. / Kehoe, Josie -- There's a story tould about goold hid in Mr. Cadogan's avenue outside the churchyard gate. / Foley, Willie -- There was a man and a woman livin' together wan time. / Kehoe, Josie -- There was a man and his wife livin' together wan time near this place. / Kehoe, Josie -- There was a man an' he lived in this localty wan time. The divel a wan could frighten him. / French, Kitty -- In the penal times when the priests were bein' hunted there was a certain priest hunted for several months. / French, Niochlas -- There was a giant wan time be the name of Robinson an' he lived in a cave on Finnecarrig rock situated in Newbawn an' the remains... / French, Niochlas -- There's a man be the name o' Dunne livin' in Kilbraney at present. / French, Niochlas -- Some years ago 'twas tould that men used to go play cards in a neighbours house. / Foley, Ena -- Wan day a very long time ago, a man was goin' to the races in Rathceale in the county Limerick. / Roche, Michael -- A gentleman named Mr. Fingle, who lived in Ballyanne, New Ross wance had a gardener, who was talking about seeds... / Crosbie, Josie -- There's a lane on the road to Newbawn an a big black dog is there every night. / Foley, Willie -- There was a woman wan time an' she had three sons. / Kehoe, Josie -- I was atin' me dinner wan day in Ross at Larkin's atin' house that's where Mac Donald's have set up now in Conduit Lane. / Kehoe, Josie -- There was a fella wan time livin' in the Boola, Raheen, an' he used to go round workin' from place to place. / Kehoe, Josie -- Mr Katin the school teacher kept a little shop in Raheen Adamstown and Paddy O Connor and his wife used to dale there... / Kehoe, Josie -- There was a dance in Kilscanlon wan time. / Kehoe, Patrick -- I remember a little shop over near the Alley just where Paddy Mc Gee is livin' now, it's eighty years ago since it was there... / French, Kitty -- Fields -- Did you ever hear about the hussian that was killed down here in the Meehan Lane. / French, Kitty -- Wakes long 'go used to be always held in barns they never used to be in dwellin' houses an' we used to spend the night playing all sorts of games. / Kehoe, Josie -- There used to be travellers going round the counry an' they'd have Butts of ash on their shoulders an, they'd stop in the farmers' houses... / Kehoe, Josie -- There was no such thing as flour bread when I was a chap, we had barley bread an' oaten bread, an' plenty o' cutlen stirabout for our breakfast. / Kehoe, Josie -- Raheenvarren is the name of my home district. It is situated in the County of Wexford and in the Barony of Bantry. / French, Kitty -- The townlands in this parish of Adamstown are rather small not consisting of more than a dozen houses. / Crosby, Jocie -- My townland is Carrigbyrne. It is in the Co Wexford, Barony of Bantry and in the Parish of Adamstown. / Kehoe, Josie -- The name of my district is Carrigadaggan. It is situated between Wexford and New Ross, in the Parish of Adamstown and in the Barony of Bantry. / Foley, Ena -- Me Aunt Nelly often tould me all about the burnin' of Scullabogue barn. / French, Kitty -- I suppose you often heard of the woman in Garranstacle that killed the Hussian, its in Fr. Kavanagh's history. / French, Kitty -- I suppose you often heard tell o' Ned Hayden of Old Ross, an' all the quare things he used to do. / French, Kitty -- There was wan night and Ned Hayden was going to the public house. / Kehoe, Josie -- Fellas used to be goin' round years ago in me grandfather's time staling horses, wan time there wor a horse stole on me grandfather... / Kehoe, Josie -- Weather-Lore -- There was a young man livin around here wan time. He didn't mind grabbin' a few things when he'd be hungry an odd time. / French, Kitty -- Riddles -- There was a man be the name o' Patsy Connors from this parish, an he was in Taghmon wan day. / French, Kitty -- There was a man workin' at Bob Fitzharris's (where Lar Doyle is livin' now) wan time. / French, Kitty -- There was a man comin' from a fair wan day. He had fifty miles to travel. / French, Kitty -- There is a field near Maylerspark. There is a path in the middle of it. / French, Kitty -- There was a man in Cassagh some years ago that ploughed a rath. / French, Kitty -- There was a blacksmith livin' in the Co. Wexford wan time an' he was very poor. / Kehoe, Josie -- There was a man living near Nash. Some years ago he tilled a part of a rath. / French, Niochlas -- There were two men near Tinnerath building a ditch one day. They removed a white Hawthorn that grew in the corner of the field. / French, Nicholas -- Two men from Cushinstown went to Kilkenny wan time to look for a job. It was a Sunday. / Kehoe, Josie -- Hugh Farrel Faree, Newbawn, Co. Wexford, Barony of Bantry said he was going by the graveyard in Faree wan night and begor... / Walshe, Anthony -- Once upon a time there used to be a man crossing the grave yard in Courtdale coming from playing cards about twelve o clock... / Walshe, Anthony -- There are two kitchens on our house and a couple of men used to come in to one of the kitchens and tell stories. / Walshe, Anthony -- There was a blessed well in a ditch of the graveyard in Kilscanlon one time. / Kehoe, Patrick -- There was a boy and his mother livin' in a sooty cabin and the boy was so lazy he was called ashy pit. / Kehoe, Patrick -- There was a woman dying one time and she left fifty pounds to buy the habit and the people could not get a habit for fifty pounds... / Walshe, Anthony -- Marriage Customs / Crosbie, Jocie -- Once upon a time there were men drinkin' in a public house near a grave yard. / Walshe, Anthony -- Bird-Lore / Crosbie, Jocie -- I was at a wake over in Grallagh wood me mother God be good to her, a long time ago. / French, Nick -- There was a bailiff in Ross wan time an' his name was Mr Elf, and he met a man named John Sutton one day going down to Foulksmills. / Roche, Michael -- There was a priest in Rathgarogue be the name of Father Bolger, and of course all the farmers used to send him oats and... / French, Kitty -- I remember wan day long ago we were goin' to St Mullins and we got mass in Rathgarouge. / Foley, Ena -- There was a clergyman in Newbawn wan time, and he was nearly the first around here that used tay. / Kehoe, Paddy -- When we were living in Grallagh we were a long time an' the milk gone from the cows an' my mother was in a terrible way about it. / French, Kitty -- There were no mowing machines long ago, and the people used to be up at all hours in the mornin' cuttin' with scythes. / Kehoe, Patrick -- There was to be great fun at the wakes long a go, very different from now praise be to God. / Crosbie, Jocie -- The old women long ago had a belief if you could get the water in the forge where horse shoes were cooled, unknown to anywan... / Kehoe, Patrick -- I think there was a church long ago in Courtdale graveyard, did you ever see that little holy water font in the middle of the graveyard... / Kehoe, Josie -- The farming implements which we use at home, are, a spade, a shovel, a pick, a sprong, a hoe, a scythe... / French, Nick -- A sailor went to confession one time. When he went in to the confession box the priest said to him. / Kehoe, Paddy -- My father saw the banshee one time. He was eating his supper one night at Robby Bennets of Cushinstown. / Kehoe, Patrick -- Fowl / Foley, Ena -- Story / Curtis, Patrick -- Story / Curtis, Patrick -- Story / Curtis, Patrick -- Story / Curtis, Patrick
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.