DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4493804
title: St Boden's, Culdaff

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from St Boden's, Culdaff (school) (Culdaff, Co. Donegal), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Doiminic Ó Duibhne.
description: Urnaí na Maidine / Duibhne, Doiminic Ó -- Páirc an Chlampa / Duibhne, Doiminic Ó -- Bucker's Rock / Duibhne, Doiminic Ó -- Moll's Rock / Duibhne, Doiminic Ó -- Policeman's Cove / Duibhne, Doiminic Ó -- Naomh Buadán / Duibhne, Doiminic Ó -- Druid Circles / Dhuíbhne, Anna S. Ní -- Druids' Altar / Grory, Bernadette Mc -- Muff Altars / Long, May -- Muff Altars / Sheils, Mary -- Old School - Cloncha / Cassidy, Romey -- Monk's Rock, Claggin / Noone, Dan -- Old Wells / Deeny, B. Philomena -- Fallen-Over Well / Deeny, B. Philomena -- Shipwreck - Alcess / Grory, John Mc -- Shipwreck - Merry Snow / Dhuíbhne, Anna S. Ní -- Wreck of the Cargo Boat - Dunmore / Deeny, B. Philomena -- Shan Crosack / Dhuibhne, Anna S. Ní -- Black Bess / Deeny, Eugene Edward -- Big Flood 1908 / Cassidy, Romey -- The Mayor / Deeny, Eugene E. -- Grousehall - Murder / Deeny, Eugene E. -- Miracle / Deeny, Eugene E. -- Scythe / Dhuibhne, Anna S. Ní -- Honest Servants / Dhuibhne, Anna S. Ní -- Corpse / Deeny, Kathleen -- Clocking Man / Shiels, Mary -- Cheap Hat / Noone, Dan -- One-Eyed Servant / Doherty, Mary Ann -- How he Got Out of Hell / Long, Maggie -- Inside a Whale / Deeny, Kathleen -- Inside a Whale / Deeny, Anna -- Ghost Stories - Cloncha Ghost / Colgan, Kathleen Mc -- Ghost - Cat's Eyes / Colgan, Kathleen Mc -- Haunted House / Colgan, Kathleen Mc -- Shining Man / Doherty, Mary A. -- Ghost at Farren's / Shiels, Mary -- Midnight Threshing / Long, Mary Ann -- Cloven Foot / Long, Grace -- Kicking Man - Penny-Farthing Days / Long, Grace -- Black Cat / Grory, John Mc -- Ghost on Lonely Road / Grory, Bernadette Mc -- Ghost - White Cow / Deeny, Kathleen -- Giant's Grave / Deeny, Kathleen -- Fairy Tales - Fairy Cow / Deeny, Anna -- Fairy Tales - Two Witches / Deeny, Anna J. -- Fairy Tales - Fairies in Culdaff / Deeny, Anna -- Haunted Rock / Deeny, Kathleen -- Fairy Tree / Deeny, Kathleen -- Man who Lost His Hair / Deeny, Philomena -- A rock up here at Pat Farren's is a fairy home. / Deeny, B. Philomena -- How Cnoc an Phíobaire Got Its Name / Deeny, Philomena -- New Byre at Cnoc an Phíobaire / Deeny, Philomena -- Paddy Salach / Deeny, Philomena -- Oak Tree / Deeny, Philomena -- Strange Cow / Deeny, Philomena -- Fairy Cow / Deeny, Philomena -- Gentle Tree / Grory, John Joe Mc -- Witchcraft / Grory, John Joe Mc -- Fairy Tale / Grory, John Joe Mc -- Cows All Dying / Grory, John Joe Mc -- Fairy Tree / Grory, Bernadette Mc -- Pipers & Ellen's House / Grory, Bernadette Mc -- Sick Woman / Grory, Bernadette Mc -- Giant's Grave / Grory, Bernadette Mc -- Witch, Cockroach / Shiels, Mary -- Master of all Masters / Shiels, Mary -- Open Sesame / Daid, Mick Mc -- Fairy Servant / Colgan, Hugh Mc -- Mrs Napper Tapper / Daid, Mick Mc -- Black Hound of Cloncha / Daid, Mick Mc -- Fairy Horse Mystery / Gee, Neil Mc -- Girl Dumb by Thorn / Colgan, Hugh Mc -- Pig Rock / Colgan, Hugh Mc -- Man and Blue Light / Gee, Neil Mc -- Fairy Rock - Sheep / Noone, Daniel -- Bag Swallow You / Noone, Daniel -- Old Tree / Colgan, Kathleen Mc -- Mystery - How the Milk Was Lost / Colgan, Kathleen Mc -- Girl Dumb by Pin in Head / Long, Annie -- Skulls / Long, Maggie -- Fairies in Campbell's Hill / Cassidy, R. A. -- Miller in Bottle / Cassidy, R. A. -- Hare Witch / Cassidy, R. A. -- Shoemaker / Doherty, Mary Ann -- Gentle Rock / Long, Mary Ann -- Wilkey's Well and Cows / Long, Grace -- Den in Hilltown / Deeny, Anna J. -- Witch as Hare / Colgan, Hugh Mc -- Thief - Young Boy / Long, Annie -- Thief Stealing the Sheet / Shiels, Mary -- Thief and the Watches / Grory, Bernadette Mc -- Thief and Bacon / Gee, Neal Mc -- Thief and Guard / Deeny, Eugene Edward -- Thief / Deeny, Kathleen -- St Joseph / Grory, Bernadette Mc -- Story of Death / Noone, Daniel -- Story of Murder / Noone, Daniel -- Priest Hunting / Noone, Daniel -- Treachery / Deeny, Anna -- Strange Messenger / Deeny, Kathleen -- Monk and the Pagan / Deeny, Kathleen -- Playing Cards / Grory, John Joe Mc -- Festival Customs / Grory, John Joe Mc -- Landlord and Tenant / Shiels, Mary -- Famine Story / Shiels, Mary -- Sacrament of Baptism / Gee, Neil Mc -- Playing Cards / Noone, Daniel -- Man that Had Power to Blink / Noone, Daniel -- More than he Expected / Noone, Daniel -- Weasel / Long, Annie -- Cures - Toothache / Shiels, Mary -- Cures - Toothache / Deeny, Kathleen -- Cures for Warts / Deeny, B. Philomena -- Cures for Warts / Colgan, Kathleen Mc -- Cures for Rheumatic Pains / Deeny, B. Philomena -- Cures for Rheumatic Pains / Colgan, Kathleen Mc -- Cures for Whooping Cough / Deeny, Kathleen -- Cures for Sore Eyes / Deeny, B. Philomena -- Cures for Sore Eyes / Deeny, Kathleen -- Cure for Sore Ear / Long, Annie -- Cure for Clearing the Blood / Deeny, B. Philomena -- Weather-Lore / Deeny, Anna
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.