DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4481744
title: Teampull Dubhglaise

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Teampull Dubhglaise (school) (Drumbologe, Co. Donegal), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Seán C. Ó Dómhnaill.
description: Hidden Gold / Daid, Jane Mc -- Names of Places / Daid, Jane Mc -- Short Funny Stories / Daid, Jane Mc -- About the Fairies / Daid, Jane Mc -- Guesses / Daid, Jane Mc -- Proverbs / Daid, Jane Mc -- Cures / Daid, Jane Mc -- Signs of Weather / Daid, Jane Mc -- Lucky and Unlucky Things / Daid, Jane Mc -- Ghost Stories / Daid, Jane Mc -- Old Dwellings / Daid, Jane Mc -- On Mayeve if you pull a piece of yarrow and say the following verse and put the yarrow under your pillow that night, you will dream of your future wife or husband. / Daid, Jane Mc -- Underground Cave / Daid, Jane Mc -- Old Story / Daid, Jane Mc -- Fairy Story / Daid, Jane Mc -- Fairy Story / Daid, Jane Mc -- True Story of Columcille / Daid, Jane Mc -- Superstitions / Daid, Jane Mc -- Dreams / Daid, Jane Mc -- Sayings about a Wedding / Monagle, Una Mc -- Cures / Monagle, Una Mc -- Cures / Cormick, Maureen Mc -- Old Sayings / Cormick, Maureen Mc -- Guess / Cormick, Maureen Mc -- Signs of Death / Cormick, Maureen Mc -- "Willo the Wisp" is supposed to be seen in Doyne's Moss near to where I live. / Cormick, Maureen Mc -- Customs / Cormick, Maureen Mc -- Fairy Story / Cormick, Maureen Mc -- In our hill last year in a hollow a fairy horn was found when cutting fir. / Cormick, Maureen Mc -- In cnoc a tighe you can see the track of Colm Cille's knee and down at Churchill Station you can see the track of his foot in a rock. / Cormick, Maureen Mc -- Old Sayings / Cormick, Maureen Mc -- Old Customs / Cormick, Maureen Mc -- One night a drunk man was coming along the road he fell into a "lint" dam. / Cormick, Maureen Mc -- If you were up in the top of Gregory and had spy glasses you could see the Tower of Derry and several other places of note. / Cormick, Maureen Mc -- Story / Cormick, Maureen Mc -- Gartan Clay / Boyle, Maggie -- Fairy Stories -- There was a man one time who lived near my father's wood. One day he went into the wood to cut fine wood and he saw a fairy. -- A little fairy woman with a wee red cloak on her appeared one time. -- St Colmcille's Footprints -- Cures / Kelly, Rose Agnes -- Holy Well / Kelly, Rose Agnes -- Holy Well / Kelly, Rose Agnes -- Cures / Kelly, Rose Agnes -- Poetry about Candlesmas Day / Kelly, Rose Agnes -- Winter Tales - Sad Tales / Kelly, Rose Agnes -- Poetry / Kelly, Rose Agnes -- There is an old saying - ¶ Yet I think that ghost stories ¶ Always will be the favourites by the winter fire. / Kelly, Rose Agnes -- Poetry / Kelly, Rose Agnes -- Old Sayings / Kelly, Rose Agnes -- Edward McDaid was cutting turf on Charlie McDaid's bog of Drucklish. / Flanagan, Bridget -- The cure for warts is to wash your hands in water that lies in a rack. / Flanagan, Bridget -- Once upon a time there was a man who had a sick cow. / Flanagan, Bridget -- In Rathdonell house there was a man who lived there, his name was Staffard. / Gallagher, Daniel -- There is a giant's grave in James McKay's wood, and there is an "Altar" stone in it too. / Gallagher, Daniel -- Fairies were numerous in Carrick about 80 years ago, they had great power at that time. / Gallagher, Daniel -- Collection of Folklore - Cures / Kelly, Bridie -- Guesses / Kelly, Madge -- Old Sayings / Kelly, Katie -- Customs / Kelly, Katie -- Story of Colm-Cille / Kelly, Manus -- There was a man named Charlie Doherty of Fahykeen near to where I live who found a Mass bell in the bog. / Kelly, Rose Agnes -- Old Sayings / Kelly, Rose Agnes -- Signs / Kelly, Rose Agnes -- There was a man living in Breenagh called "Paddy Black". He was a mason. / Kelly, Rose Agnes -- Andrew Long of Cruckra was a decree an and a process-server. / Murray, Mary -- Song - How James Daly and His Comrade Were Wrongly Condemned / Murray, Mary -- There is a Poney's Skin in John Herron's hill and it is supposed to be full of Gold. / Murray, Mary -- There are Graves in John Herron's hill too, when the people were digging the ground for crops they saw human bones. / Murray, Mary -- There is a well above the "New Mills" on the middle of a Hill. / Murray, Mary -- Once upon a time there was a man and he went to the well and took in a bucket of water and put it in the pot, to boil potatoes for the dinner. / Murray, Katie -- Over at Fintown lough there lived in this side of the lough a brother and sister. / Murray, Katie -- There was a man going to the fair of Kilmacrenn one time, and as he was going along the road he met a black pig. / Murray, Katie -- Old Sayings / Murray, Katie -- Story / Murray, Katie -- Once upon a time there was a young girl who hit a man with a spade and killed him. / Murray, Katie -- There was a man one time and he had seven children. They were very poor and the man didn't want to see them dying. / Murray, Katie -- Story / Connell, Bridget J. Mc -- Story / Connell, Bridget J. Mc -- Story / Connell, Bridget J. Mc -- Good Luck / Connell, Bridget J. Mc -- Bad Luck / Connell, Bridget J. Mc -- Signs of the Weather / Connell, Bridget J. Mc -- Story / Connell, Mary A. Mc -- Old Story / Connell, Mary A. Mc -- Oisin was going about a poor wee man and St Patrick's maid was going for a bucket of water. / Connell, Mary A. Mc -- Story / Connell, Mary A. Mc -- Story / Connell, Mary A. Mc -- Story / Connell, Mary A. Mc -- Ghost Stories / Connell, Mary A. Mc -- Story / Connell, Mary A. Mc -- True Story / Connell, Mary A. Mc -- Fairy Stories / Connell, Mary A. Mc -- True Story / Connell, Mary A. Mc -- True Story / Connell, Mary A. Mc -- True Story / Connell, Mary A. Mc -- Story / Connell, Mary A. Mc -- There is a rock on Edward Hunter's Hill which the priest and Bishop blessed. / Gallagher, Eugene -- Folklore / Doherty, Sarah -- Story / Doherty, Sarah -- Ghost Story / Doherty, Sarah -- Story / Doherty, Sarah -- Ghost Story / Doherty, Sarah -- Story / Doherty, Sarah -- Folklore / Craig, Sarah -- Story / Craig, Sarah -- Funny Story / Craig, Sarah -- Story / Craig, Sarah -- Story / Craig, Sarah -- Story / Craig, Sarah -- Story / Craig, Sarah -- Story / Craig, Sarah -- Story / Craig, Sarah -- Story / Craig, Sarah -- Story / Craig, Sarah -- Dreams / Craig, Sarah -- Story / Craig, Sarah -- When you see the new moon you should say: ¶ I see the new moon ¶ And the new moon sees me ¶ God bless the new moon ¶ And God bless me. / Craig, Sarah -- Guesses / Craig, Sarah -- Cures / Craig, Sarah -- Ancient Stories / Byrne, James -- True Story / Connell, Anna May Mc -- Story / Monagle, Annie Mac -- Story / Monagle, Annie Mac -- Story / Monagle, Annie Mc -- Story / Monagle, Annie Mc -- It is said that St Colmcille was coming along the road one day. He met a man with salmon which he caught in Gartan lake. / Devitt, James N. Mc -- Gartan - Turas / Daid, Jane Mc -- Fairy Story / Daid, Jane Mc -- Fairy Story / Daid, Jane Mc -- It is said that if you are out on a hill and that you "wander" and can't find your way, it is a good plan to take off your coat and turn it outside in. / Daid, Jane Mc -- There were two people going to a wake in the Blown Rock one night. / Daid, Jane Mc -- There is a Bungalow in Glen Swilly, and in a room of it there are blood-marks on the floor. / Daid, Jane Mc -- On a rocj on the hill behind Tullyhullion, there is a crow's foot carved. / Daid, Jane Mc -- It is unlucky to throw out water in which you have washed your feet, unless you put a pin in it. / Daid, Jane Mc -- The following is a rhyme showing what day is the best to be married on. / Daid, Jane Mc -- True Story / Daid, Jane Mc -- Long ago the Irish people used wicker-work coops for potatoes. / Daid, Jane Mc -- There was an old woman in Tullyhullion out herding cows one day, and a little hare came and ran in under a cow and looked up at her udder. / Daid, Jane Mc -- Elf-Shot and the Cure for it / Daid, Jane Mc -- Battle of Sprigburn / Daid, Jane Mc -- A "piggin" was a round vessel for milk. It was also used for butter. / Daid, Jane Mc -- There was an old man called Neil McDaid going along the Tullyhullion road one day, and he met a whole crowd of fairies, and each one of them called, "How are you, Neil?" / Daid, Jane Mc -- There is a certain weed in lonely dark places. If you cut your finger, and pull a piece of this weed and chew it and put it on the cut, it will stop bleeding. / Daid, Jane Mc -- True Story / Daid, Jane Mc -- Rhymes / Daid, Jane Mc -- Fairy Stories / Daid, Jane Mc -- Proverbs / Daid, Jane Mc -- Guesses / Daid, Jane Mc -- Ghost Stories / Daid, Jane Mc -- Ghost Stories / Daid, Jane Mc -- Ghost Stories / Daid, Jane Mc -- Ghost Stories / Daid, Jane Mc -- Old Customs / Daid, Jane Mc -- it is said that if you catch a weasel and kill it and make a purse of its skin, you will never be without money. / Daid, Jane Mc -- Story / Daid, Jane Mc -- About twenty years ago an old man got married to a young girl of eighteen. The next morning after the marriage she got up to make ready the breakfast. / Gallagher, Bridget -- Once upon a time four men were stilling on Derry-veigh mountains which was known at that time as Mrs Adair's estate. / Gallagher, Bridget -- Making Oaten Bread / Gallagher, William -- Rock Fair / Devitt, James N. Mc -- Sowens / Cormick, Maureen Mc -- Funny Story / Cormick, Maureen Mc -- Cures / Cormick, Maureen Mc -- Signs of the Weather / Cormick, Maureen Mc -- Cures / Kelly, Rose Agnes -- Old Saying / Kelly, Rose Agnes -- Unlucky and Lucky Things / Kelly, Rose Agnes -- Rhyme about Magpies / Kelly, Rose Agnes -- Potato Bread / Craig, Sarah -- How Beastings are Made / Connell, Anna May Mc -- Folklore / Murray, 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.