DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5009165
title: Gaigue (B.), Ballinamuck

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Gaigue (B.), Ballinamuck (school) (Gaigue, Co. Longford), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Peter Duignan.
description: Art McQuaide / Quaide, Frankie Mc -- Story of '98 / Brady, Patrick -- Story of the Hessians / Brady, Frank -- Story of '98 -- Killala Man's Grave / Lenahan, Frank -- Sharpening the Pikes / Connor, Patrick O -- Story of 1798 -- '98 Story / Connolly, Michael -- Story of Gunner Magee / Connor, Patrick O -- Story of 98 / Brady, Francis -- Tom Gilheany / Connolly, Michael -- Story of the Grime's People / Connolly, Michael -- Old Church in Ballinamuck / Connolly, Michael -- Bishop Higgins / Connolly, Michael -- Old School -- Old School / Connolly, Michael -- Old School / Lenahan, James -- Old School / Brady, Patrick -- Old School / Kiernan, John -- Old Names of Fields / Quaide, Frankie Mc -- Names of Fields / Gorman, John -- Names of Fields / Quaide, Frankie Mc -- Names of Fields / Guire, Patrick Mc -- Names of Fields / Duffy, John -- Old Names of Fields / Larkin, Patrick -- Old Names of Fields / Connor, Stanislaus O -- Old Names of Fields / Lenahan, James -- Old Names of Fields / Brady, Patrick -- Old Names of Fields / Kiernan, John -- Garristown / Cunningham, Pat -- Fair of Garristown / Quaide, Frankie Mc -- Old Town / Quaide, Frank Mc -- Roisin's Rocks / Connor, Patrick O -- Mass Rock / Connor, Patrick O -- Poulaphousa / Lenahan, Francis -- Fairy Tale / Quinn, John -- Fairy Tale / Kiernan, John -- Weight-Lifter / Connor, Patrick O -- The first pair of boots Edward Flynn of Gaigue got was a pair of his mothers and that year he walked to the harvest in Dublin. / Connor, Patrick O -- Strong Man / Quaide, Frank Mc -- Strong Man / Quaide, Frank Mc -- Great Mower / Brady, Willie -- Great Wrestler / Kiernan, John -- Nailer / Duffy, John -- Great Mower / Leahan, Francis -- How to Make Rush Candles / Maguire, Tom -- Hurling of Long Ago / Duignan, Peter -- Wrestling was a very common game in this district long ago. / Duignan, Peter -- Without title / Connor, Patrick O -- Hurling / Lenahan, Francis -- Long Ago at the Potato Digging / Gelshenan, Thomas -- Night of the Big Wind 1839 / Duffy, John -- Old Football Games / Farreel, John -- Old Football Games / Brady, Patrick -- In 1881 an organiser of the Invincibles was working in this district. / Duignan, Peter -- Famine of 1846 / Duignan, Peter -- Long ago on all souls night twelve neighbours would gather into a house in the townland and bring with them a candle each. / Lenahan, Francis -- The graveyard in Ballinamuck was consecrated by Bishop Kilduff. / Duignan, Peter -- Famine of 1846 / Kiernan, Patrick -- Iron Bars - Famine -- Old Roads -- Very Old Road / Flynn, Thomas O -- Very Old Road / Brady, Francis -- Billeting Rats -- Old Roads / Kiernan, Patrick -- Old Roads / Cunningham, Pat -- My Home District / Cunningham, Pat -- My Home District / Farrell, John -- My Home District / Lenahan, Francis -- My Home District / Kiernan, Michael -- Lettergullion / Gelshinan, Thomas -- My Home District / Brady, Patrick -- Lettergeeragh is a townland in the school district of Gaigue Parish of Drumlish Barony of Longford. / Brady, Patrick -- Common Herbs Used as Medicine / Gorman, John -- Old Cures / Duffy, John -- Colouring -- Old Cures / Larkin, Patrick -- Kiltycreevagh / Duignan, Peter -- Plants / Quinn, James -- Dyeing / Duffy, John -- Story of 98 / Quaide, Frank Mc -- Potato Setting / Quinn, John -- Old Sayings / Lenahan, Francis -- Old Sayings / Lenahan, John -- Local Saying / Farrell, John -- Cornawn Bawn is a big field belonging to Philip Brady of Gaigue Upper and it is the highest point of Gaigue Hill. -- Three Giants of Cornawn Bawn / Farrell, John -- Land League House / Farrell, John -- Story of Cornawn Bawn / Quaide, Frankie Mc -- Story of Cornawn Bawn / Quaide, Frankie Mc -- Story of James Herson / Farrell, John O -- That it may do you good was the customary expression when the milk was spilled because of the belief that the fairies got the milk in that way. / Brady, Phil -- Fairy Castle in Cornawn Bawn / Farrell, John O -- Good People of Cornawn Bawn Settle a Faction Fight / Quaide, Frankie Mc -- Fairy Fight at Cornawn Bawn / Quaide, Frankie Mc -- Fairy Fight at Cornawn Bawn / Flynn, Edward -- Fairy Story of Cornawn Bawn / Connor, Patrick O -- Story of Cornawn Bawn / Farrell, John -- Old Houses of Long Ago / Brady, Francis -- St Stephen's Day / Duignan, P. -- Bonfire Nights -- Long ago there were dances known as week dances. / Duignan, Peter -- Many of the old people and some people still keep St Stephens day as a day of abstinence. / Duignan, P. -- Geancánach / Duignan, P. -- Old Story / Duignan, Peter -- Story of General Blake / Duignan, Peter -- Story of General Blake / Duignan, Peter -- Story of 1798 / Duignan, Peter -- Fairy Tale / Connor, Patrick O -- Old Houses of Long Ago / Lenahan, Francis -- Longford Rising in 1798 / Duignan, P. -- The Battle of Ballinamuck is often spoken of as the last engagement of the Rebellion of 1798. / Duignan, P. -- Irish Words and Expressions -- Plantation in the Ballinamuck District / Duignan, Peter
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.