DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4658459
title: Druim Bréan Lios

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Druim Bréan Lios (school) (Drumbreanlis, Co. Leitrim), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Eibhlín Nic Ghuidhir.
description: Errew a quarter of a mile from this school contains a graveyard, said to be the second oldest in Ireland. -- Frank Doyle's Cave -- Saint Patrick's Well -- Errew Lake -- Drumbreanlis -- Beliefs Concerning Taking of Butter by Witchcraft -- Another Story -- Story -- Story -- Banshee -- When Mrs McManus was about twenty years of age she and her sister Mrs Brady, who is now dead... -- There is a corn mill still in Aughawillian. When Dan Kiernan was a young man about 70 years ago... -- Ghost Story -- Story about Fairies -- Food Used by the People in this Locality 40 Years Ago -- Food Used on Black Fast Days in Lent -- How the Festival of Easter Was Kept here 40 Years Ago -- Festival of Christmas -- St John's Eve -- St Stephen's Day -- About thirty years ago a man named Reilly lived in Mullahorn. -- In this parish about 35 years ago lived a girl called Quinn. -- Funerals and Wakes in this Part of the Country 70 Years Ago -- Hidden Treasures -- Hidden Treasures -- Feats of Strength -- Hidden Treasures -- Great Mowers -- Quick Runners -- Accounts of Great Storms -- A woman named Leavy lived in Fihora about 70 years ago. -- Local Landlords of Long Ago -- Fairy Story -- Hedge-School in this District -- Story about Hidden Treasures -- Local Cures -- Fairy Story -- Tricks that Used to Be Played on Halloween -- Catherine Quinn of Gulladoo (dead now about 40 years) was hired in John Doyle's Errew. -- Version of Will-o'-the-Wisp -- Superstitions Connected with a Forge -- Marriage Customs in this Part -- Ten Commandments in Verse -- How Poteen Used to Be Made here -- Seven Sacraments in Verse -- Walker's Ghost -- Paddy the Lad's Shop -- Grabber O'Neill -- Madam's Ass -- Briody's Flitting Trousseau -- Jimmy Murphy's Shop -- Great Frost and Snowstorms -- Ghost Story -- Story Told about Errew Graveyard -- Another Story Told about Errew Graveyard -- Story about the Fairies -- I was knitting a shawl for my mother and did not know how to put the fringe on it... -- Story Told about the Same Fields -- I was coming off my Kaly (céilidhe) one night in January 1932 from a friends house... -- I went over the night before the fair of Arva 28th June 1918 to Hugh Maguire's... -- In the winter of 1926 a neighbour of mine got very sick. -- A little boy named Connolly was drowned in the bog... -- James Doyle, uncle to Mrs Dan Kiernan went a 'céilidhe' to William Clerkin's, Errew. -- I went for a suit of clothes to Jim Mastersons (Jim the tailors) Cornafest. -- A man named P. O'Rourke was going to Carrigallen from Bredagh... -- Forts in this District / Maguire, E. -- Games Played by Children in this Neighbourhood / Maguire, E. -- Lucky and Unlucky Days for Doing Certain Actions -- Ghost Story -- Tom Kiernan Cornafest was one Sunday evening sitting in Cornafest fort. -- When Tom Duffy Corglass uncle to Hugh Duffy was a young man... -- Superstitions Concerning Errew Fort -- In the parish of Columcille, Longford about fifteen miles from here lived a girl forty years ago who went to her room and refused to take any food. -- Mularvy's Ghost -- McEntyre's Ghost -- Shee Lights on the Bog Road -- Story about a Man that Horses Could Not Draw His Corpse -- Puffer's Ghost -- Old Prayer / Maguire, E. -- Old Prayer / Maguire, E. -- Another Prayer Taught to me by My Mother / Maguire, E. -- Abide with me / Maguire, E. -- Night Prayer -- Old Houses in these Parts -- Old Houses in These Parts / Kiernan, James -- Travelling Folk / Kiernan, John -- Place Names in this District and what they Probably Mean / Maguire, E. -- Song Made by James McEntyre -- This is the version of Mularveys ghost given by Paddy Reilly Drumbreanlis who says his father lived in the locality the time the ghost was banished. -- Ghost Story -- Strange Happening Not Far from this Locality about 70 Years Ago -- Song about Cornadrum -- There is an island on Lough Gowna called Inis Mór on which St Columcille erected a monastery. -- The following song was composed by James McEntyre Behamore, Carrigallen on the sinking of the Titanic.
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.