DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4649705
title: Gort Leitreach

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Gort Leitreach (school) (Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Seosamh Mac Cionnaith.
description: spadach - móin bhán eadtrom.... -- If you find a stone when cleaning turf bark and make sign of cross on cheek with it, you will never have a toothache. / Duignan, John -- Ceapach a low hill ... / Kenna, J. Mc -- Failin Whelan -- Going of me ¶ Coming of me -- Mac Raghnaill was the ruling Irish family in district in olden times. -- Lord Cornwallis, on his way to intercept Hambert at Ballinamuck ... / Conefry, Reverend P. -- In the time of the Whiteboys ... -- When Hambert was marching to Ballinamuck ... -- Clements -- Rinn 1345 / Kenna, J. Mc -- Belscarra, along the Cloone River ... -- Flummery. A food made from the seeds or tailings of oatmeal ... -- Oat bread baked standing up against a gridle ... -- Canoe Found in Lough Rinn in 1929 -- If you see a hen crowing on a floor or hear her crowing at night it is a sign of death. -- Clooncaher Well / Kenna, J. Mc -- Twelve rush candles were burned ... -- Hallow Eve Customs -- Bonesetting -- Rub a Cobweb to a Cut -- Patrick McKenna ¶ Who died in the year 1777 died 63. / #missing, -- Half Set / Higgins -- Black Pig / Higgins, Catherine -- Cool of Butter / Higgins -- Jack O'Hara - Brisk and Bold / Higgins -- Witch of Cloncoose / Higgins, Dominic -- Policeman / Higgins -- Clinton's Dance / Higgins -- Jack Reenan's Hob / Higgins -- Cassidy's Buck / Higgins -- Love Letter -- Ghost Story -- John Coxes Rhyme - The Two Sows / #missing, -- Bachelor's Chat -- Ghost Story -- Ghost Story -- Drumlish Affray of 1881 / #missing, -- Cures Still Used -- Hedge schools existed at one time or another at ... -- Before present bridge at Bohey was built the road to Rossmore went by the end of the house in which Tom Keenan lives at present (8/35). -- An old road can be traced from Fearnaght barrack across the top of the hill and down to the Catholic graveyard ... -- The road through Lear from Junction at Drumkirk to main road at Cloone is supposed to have been made as a relief work at the time of the Famine. / Kenna, J. Mc -- At Belscarra off main road from Mohill to Cloone and the by-road from Redhill ... / Kenna, J. Mc -- Nellie's Well -- Mick Glancy's Well / Reilly, Kate -- Mick Mulvey's Well / Kenna, J. Mc -- Tobar crann. In the townland of Drumbad ... -- Bonfire Night / Kenna, J. Mc -- Mickna townland belonged to a landlord named O'Beirne who lived near Drumsna. / Kenna, J. Mc -- Remembered by People -- Clonee, Gortimse, Drumconvey, Drummien, Mullaghbrock, Caltan, Keeldra, etc. belonged to Whites of Cloone Grange. -- The Duignans were big farmers who owned at one time ... -- When a person dies the clock is stopped immediately and is not allowed to work again until after the funeral. -- After Ballinamuck a pikeman was in hiding ... -- A rebel (Gilheany by name) on the run after Ballinamuck ... -- Down to the year 1860 or thereabouts ... -- List of Parish Priests in Gortletteragh -- Tom Gilheany -- Surnames of Pupils on Rolls in Gortletteragh School -- Classification of Children in Gortletteragh School According to Hair Colour -- Eye Colour -- On the Death of Lord Leitrim / Flynn, F. -- In horror and dismay. -- Once upon a time there was a green man. -- There was an old woman who lived in Lear and she could change into a hare... -- If there is any animal sick ... / Cox, Lizzy -- It is said there is a pot of gold ... / Duignan, John -- If a person walks in his sleep ... / Garry, Eileen Mc -- There is a stone down in Mrs Griffin's meadow ... / Duignan, John -- There was a man called Civlehan ... / Duignan, Frank -- There is a stone in Joe Mallon's field ... / Mallon, John / Creamer, Tom -- If your right hand is itchy you will have a shake hands. / Kenna, Peggy Mc -- Clooncahir Well / Mallon, John -- The system of match-making still exists in the district. / Cionnaith, Seosamh Mac -- Very Rev. T. Masterson PPP 1926 -- Sixty or seventy years ago the travelling man was an institution in the countryside. -- Fishing / Kenna, J. Mc
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.