DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5177635
title: Clooney, Cuinche

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Clooney, Cuinche (school) (Clooney, Co. Clare), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Clúmháin.
description: A Landlord named Hall evicted a family from their farm in Clooney -- Knockfearbréag -- The old name of the townland now called Newgrove, was Ballyslattery -- Bothar na Corp -- Tobar Ineen -- Ennis was always famous for being the home of the Franciscans even in the far black olden days when famine and persecution reigned in Ireland / Gready, Gerald O' -- I live in Lasanna which means the little forts the house is situated between two forts -- There was a piece of land that was in dispute and a neighbout coveted it and pretended he owned it although he did not own it at all / Flannagan, Anna -- About a mile and a half from my home on the roadside to Ennis there is an ancient withered tree / Gready, Philomena O' -- There is a wood near my house and it is called Derrymore Wood / Halloran, Bridget -- When Dromore House was repairing / Markham, Katherine -- Local Stories -- Pollanamuck / Clune, Michael -- The last friar of Quin Abbey was Friar Hogan. -- Ballymaclune Well -- May Eve Customs -- Superstitions -- Cures -- Duelling -- When Biddy Early lived in Feakle the priests of the surrpunding parishes forbade any parishoner to visit her -- A boy in Quin was remaining delicate and no improvement was coming on him from day to day. -- Signs of the Weather -- Poteen -- The Midnight Hurling Match in Creavagh -- Long ago a priest of the name of Father Smyth, was called to Rylane on "a sick call" -- The Stage Coach used travel from Galway via Moyriesk and Quin to Limerick -- The Bad Spots in Quin and Clooney During the Night -- A police patrol was out one night -- An aunt of two young ladies went to Lisdoonvaona -- A neighbour who lived near him and was a great friend of his, fell suddenly. -- A man named Bindon owned the Clooney estate, gave the site for the present nice Church. -- Once upon a time there lived a man, and he was at a mission, and he fell into a terrible illness, and he was almost mad / Flannagan, Anna -- In olden times priests were forbidden to say mass only in lonesome and backward places. / Dwyer, Bridget O' -- About a century ago, there lived a family half way between Ennis and Spancilhill. / Degidon, Philomena -- There lived half way between Spancil Hill and Ennis a family named Hynes. / Grady, Philomena O' -- Cures / Degidon, Philomena -- There is an old road going from the main road at Clooney Church to Moyriesk road. / Fáwl, Thomás -- Long ago there was a man and his wife going to Limerick at 3 o'clock in the morning. / Fáwl, Thomás -- About 60 years ago Father Dan Murphy of the parish of Crusheen was called to a sick call to Rylane. / Dwyer, Bridget O' -- Once upon a time there was a priest living in a village and as he was in bed one night a knock came to his door. / Mahon, Nancy Mc -- About a mile and a half from my home on the roadside to Ennis there is an ancient withered tree / Grady, Philomena O' -- There was a brewery in the Causeway in Ennis long ago. / Degidon, Philomena -- A very long time ago there lived a man and he used always milk his own cows and he got no milk / Flannagan, Anna O' -- There was a young man one time and he used to go to his cousins house every night / Degidon, Philomena -- Long ago there lived a man in Tulla, whose name was Dan Flanagan / Halloran, Mary O' -- Once on a time there lived a king in Ireland who had an only son. / Dwyer, Bridget O' -- Between Gort and Crevagh in the parish of Quin and a famous highwayman called "The Black Terror" -- A man in Crusheen was always very fond of "ferriting" and looking for rabbits -- Some years ago there was a man named Kielly in Low Island Ballynacally who used visit Biddy Early whenever his stock or friends used be ill, / Degidon, Philomena -- A man named Leally Ballynacally went to Biddy Earley to know if his mother, who was ill, would get better / Degidon, Philomena -- Old Sayings / Degidon, Philomena -- About fifty yeats ago a man named Harvey had a very valuable horse / Dwyer, Bridget O' -- Long ago many marriage customs were in the district. / Degidon, Philomena -- In the parish of Crusheen there was a man who dreamt of gold that was buried in his "haggard" -- Long ago there was a famous highway man who plied his trade on the road from Ennis to Limerick. -- Situated on the Ennis Road going to Lisdoonvarna, may be seen the ruins old Lemanagh Castle. / Degidon, Philomena -- Pat O' Leary and the Mystery Cow / Flannagan, Anna O' -- Long ago there was a man whose sister was sick and he went to Biddy Early for a cure / Ireton, Joe -- In olden times there was a blessed well in Clooney / Ireton, Joe -- A curtain man called in one day to a forge to a smith to put a set of new shoes on his horse, which he did / Flannagan, Anna O' -- In olden times a man and his brother were going to Ennis one day. / Faul, Thomas -- Long ago there was a man who lived in Ireland who was very poor / Faul, Thomas -- Old Sayings -- There is a story in Connection with the fair of Spancilhill, many years ago / Ireton, Joe -- Fifty years ago a man living in west clare was acually dying as he got a sudden pain when clearing some trees in a fort / Dwyer, Patrick O' -- Ambush of Glenwood / Dwyer, Patrick O' -- There is a fort about half a mile from my house / Degidon, Philomena -- When Martin Ahern was working in Ballykilty the residence of a local gentleman -- When he was working in Ballykilty it was his special job to mind the lambs at the "gaining" time. -- Ardsollus (correct name means Ahsollus or the ford of the light. -- When the cholera was raging in Tulla so many people were dying, that all the people were scared of going near the dead body, -- At the time of the Fenians a famous Fenian was in "his keeping" in the parish of Quin -- Old Roads -- After the 1798 Rebellion, many of the Wexford men fled from the reign of terror that then existed in the County Wexford -- Customs at Wakes -- Customs at Funerals -- Funeral Customs -- 1 There is an old castle beside Clooney Lake -- When any of the Singleton family died, a carriage always rolled up to the door at twelve o clock the night before he died -- Fair of Quin
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.