DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5008933
title: Dangan (C.)

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Dangan (C.) (school) (Dangan, Co. Meath), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh.
description: Tale / Grehan, Elizabeth -- Tale / Ryan, Maureen -- Tale / Melia, Brigid -- Legend / Dwyer, Annie -- Story / Nugent, Ellen -- Story / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Names of Fields / Grehan, Elizabeth -- Names of Fields / Melia, Brigid -- Names of Fields / Nugent, Ellen -- Names of Fields / Nelson, Mary -- Names of Fields / Clarke, Agnes -- Names of Fields / Ryan, Carmel -- Names of Fields / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Names of Fields / Dwyer, Laurence -- Ghost Stories Told / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Ghost Stories Told / Dwyer, Annie -- Ghost Stories Told / Nugent, Ellen -- Ghost Stories Told / Grehan, Elizabeth -- Ghost Stories Told / Grehan, Elizabeth -- Ghost Stories Told / Clarke, Agnes -- Ghost Stories Told / Nugent, Ellen -- Ghost Stories Told / Grehan, Elizabeth -- Ghost Stories Told / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Ghost Stories Told / Nelson, Mary -- Crafts / Grehan, Elizabeth -- Crafts / Clarke, Agnes -- Old Cishawn / Dwyer, Annie -- Old Basket / Dwyer, Annie -- Long ago when twigs weren't in use the poor people used to make bisoms for sweeping the floor... / Dwyer, Annie -- Lime Kiln / Dwyer, Annie -- Old Noggin / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Old Pair of Wooden Soles / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Basket-Making / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Old Suggin / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Local Cures / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Local Cures / Nelson, Mary -- Local Cures / Grehan, Elizabeth -- Local Cures / Grehan, Elizabeth -- Local Cures / Grehan, Elizabeth -- Local Cures / Grehan, Elizabeth -- Local Cures / Dwyer, Annie -- Cure of the Evil / Dwyer, Annie -- Cure of the Burst / Dwyer, Annie -- Cure of Blood Poision from a Prod of a Fork / Dwyer, Annie -- Cure for Piles / Dwyer, Annie -- Cure for Warts / Dwyer, Annie -- Cure for the Whooping Cough / Nugent, Ellen -- Cure for Ringworm / Nugent, Ellen -- Cure of a Pain in Your Back / Nugent, Ellen -- Cure for Warts / Nugent, Ellen -- Cure for Wildfire / Grehan, Elizabeth -- Cure for the Burst / Grehan, Elizabeth -- Cure for the Whooping-Cough / Hughes, Rosaleen -- There is a blessed well in Kildare and it is called Father Moore's Well. / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Local Cures / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Local Cures / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Local Cures / Ryan, Annie -- Cure of a Sore Toe / Dwyer, Annie -- People who have lumps in their throats will be cured by a girl who has certain long leaves growing in her garden. / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Cure of the Thrush / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Cure of a Toothache / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Cure for a Sting of a Nettle / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Cure for a Sting of a Wasp / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Cure for an Abscess / Hughes, Rosaleen -- People who have marks on their bodies after sores can be cured. / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Cure for a Bleeding Nose / Nugent, Ellen -- Cure of the Wildfire / Nelson, Mary -- Riddles / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Riddles / Nugent, Ellen -- Riddles / Nelson, Mary -- Riddles / Dwyer, Annie -- Riddles / Grehan, Elizabeth -- Birds of a feather flock together... / Nelson, Mary -- Necessity is the mother of invention. / Hughes, Rosaleen -- Proverbs / Melia, Brigid -- What is it that a cat has but no other animal has? / Ryan, Annie -- A watched kettle never boils. / Nugent, Ellen -- For age and want save while you may no morning's son lasts a whole day. / Dwyer, Annie -- Oh Laws Begorra Oh Boys, O Boys... / Melia, Brigid -- Oh Dear! but the boys are the boys... / Melia, Brigid -- Old Castles / Melia, Brigid -- "Vanna" well is situated in the townland of Ginnetts.
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.