DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4493773
title: Clochar na Trócaire, Carn Domhnaigh

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Clochar na Trócaire, Carn Domhnaigh (school) (Ballylosky, Co. Donegal), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher An tSr. M. Beanín agus an tSr. Nic Fhionnlaoich.
description: Old Ruins / Farren, Sue -- On the top of Sliabh Sneachta in the district of Glentogher there is a well. -- Out at the Mein in the district of Glenagannon, Carndonagh there is a big rock which is a giant was supposed to throw from the top of Sliabh Sneachta. -- In the district of Glengannon there is a place named Gibraltar. -- Old Houses / Doherty, Sadie Maria -- Old Houses / Doherty, Sadie Maria -- It is said that the bell which now occupies the Belfry of the Protestant Church at Carndonagh was formerly in use in the catholic church before the sixteenth century. / Doherty, Dympna -- Names of Fields -- Local Marriage Customs / Duggan, Maeve -- Local Marriage Customs / Duggan, Maeve -- Local Marriage Customs / Gonagle, Teresa Mac -- Local Marriage Customs -- Local Marriage Customs -- Old Crafts / Canny, Maude -- Old Crafts / Faulkner, Peggy -- Old Sayings -- Names of Fields and Townlands -- Stories / Farren, Sue -- Stories / Farren, Sue -- Stories / Farren, Sue -- Stories / Farren, Sue -- In the district of Tulnaree, Carndonagh, Co Donegal, there is a small village called Gort. / Canny, Maude -- In the penal days when the priests were being hunted, a priest used to hide in a house now called Fairview, near Carndonagh, Co Donegal. / Clingain, Roseanne -- A man named Bernard Ruddy from Kellystown, Glentogher, Co Donegal. / Hirrell, Kathleen -- There is a story told of an old man and woman who lived to together in the townland of Ballyloskey, Carndonagh, County Donegal. / Elhinney, Maggie Mc -- About one hundred and fifty years ago there was a white thorn bush growing in Kellystown, Glentogher. / Cauley, Kathleen Mc -- There was a man called Neal Mc Colgan quarrying a small rock in a field by his house in Gleneely, Culduff. -- Another story is told of this same man who having cut a hedge that was growing beside his home, lost his sight. -- About twenty years ago there lived a man called Richard Mc Laughlin with his wife Rose in a small cottage in Monedaragh in the Parish of Culduff. -- Near Drumley there are still ruins of a few fairy forts to be seen. -- About fourteen years ago Hugh O'Donnell, a native of Monedaragh came from America and he noticed a similar fort on one of his fields and he began to scold his brother because he did not want to remove it. -- A few years afterwards Edward Orr, a native of Burt, in the parish of Culduff, who bought the farm interfered with it in a similar manner. -- Another man called Den Mc Cauley a native of the same district tied a sheep to a holy tree on the same farm and it ate part of the back of the tree. -- Between seventy and eighty years ago a strange woman came to the house at present occupied by Sarah and Mary Kearney, The Mullins, Carndonagh. -- A man called Willie O'Donnell, The Mullins, Carndonagh, returned from Australia, in the year of 1913. -- About forty years ago there was an old man called Hugh Mc Colgan living in Creagalogue in the parish of Culdaff. -- About sixty years ago there was an old man called Conn Doherty, living in Bealnabo, in the parish of Culdaff Co Donegal. -- About thirty years ago Neal Mc Colgan a native of Gleneely, in the parish of Culdaff, Co Donegal. / Long, Sadie Maria -- Old Hags -- Old Hags -- Fairy Stories / Cavanagh, Monica -- Fairy Stories / Cavanagh, Monica -- Fairy Stories / Cavanagh, Monica -- Fairy Stories / Cavanagh, Monica -- Fairy Stories / Cavanagh, Monica -- In the penal days about the 1700 the Irish priests were being persecuted by the English soldiers. -- About fifty years ago in certain man who lived in Glens-Maha, was out ploughing in a field. -- About sixty five years ago there was a man, who when coming home from his work. -- There was a certain landlord, who lived in Malin, Co Donegal. -- About ninety years ago there was a Danish slave in the service of a man who resided in that part of Clonmary known now as the Cross. -- About one hundred years ago, a man whose name I have been unable to find was walking along the road in the parish of Clonmary. -- About one hundred and twenty years ago there was a boy hired to a man in Ennisoneill in the parish of Clonamry, who was called John Devlin. / Doogan, Maeve -- In the Moneydaragh in the parish of Culdaff, County Donegal, about eighty years ago, there was a farm which was going to be sold, but it was supposed to be haunted. / Farren, Susan -- In a place called Drim in the parish of Culdaff, County Donegal, there was a rowan tree growing about fourty years ago. / Farren, Susan -- About a century ago, a man named Tom O'Conner lived in Talmore in the parish of Culdaff, County Donegal, and he had a black cat. / Farren, Susan -- In the black 47 there was a man named Paddy Doherty in the Illies, and he had to travel two miles or so, for his share of the broughan. / Canny, Maude -- In this same year 47 the potatoes rotted and Bishop Maginn, Lord Bishop of Raphoe and Derry, ordered the people of this locaility, to burn sod fires and to pit all the potatoes that they considered safe, in the ashes, to save them from rotting any further. / Canny, Maude -- About two hundred years ago there was a giant on the top of Cruimlish Hill in the parish of Drung Co Donegal. / Gallagher, Sarah -- I have often heard the following story in this district, about a man named Joe Callaghan. / Gallagher, Sarah -- One Halloween Eve when my granny, Mrs Mc Laughlin, was a grown up girl she housekeeping in a neighbours house. / Gallagher, Sarah -- About ninety years ago a woman named Mary Lynch a native of Crainahoran left her home in the morning to go to her friends house and she said that she did not go at all but she was taken some place where she saw big grand houses and palaces but she did not know where she was. / Gallagher, Sarah -- There was a man named Harry Scott who lived in Carrowblagh about one hundred years ago and he had a wife and children. -- In the year 1891 there was supposed to be a haunted house in Milltown, Carndonagh. -- About twelve years ago a man named Patrick Mc Gonagle now residing at the Millbrae cottage Carndonagh. -- About fifty years ago woman lived in Carndonagh and her name was Sally Ailo. -- About one hundred years ago the people all thought that the end of the world was to come in a week or so, and all in this locality filled a stocking of meal. -- About twelve years a man called Patrick Mc Gonagle of Carndonagh, now living at Milbrae, beside the convent school, joined the Free State Army and was stationed in the Curragh of Kildare. -- In the parish of Clonmary young boys and girls were out, one day herding. / Laughlin, Maggie Mc -- One night an old woman was going to her son's house with a present of a kid, and when she was passing a 'gentle' holly bush, she happened to brush against it, and all of a sudden, she saw a great three storey house with lights flashing from each of the windows, beside her. / Laughlin, Maggie Mc -- There was a certain man being in Tiernaleague, and he scoffed at the fairies, saying that there were no such things. / Laughlin, Maggie Mc -- About forty years ago in the parish of Culdaff, Irishowen, six men were cutting corn in a field, which was known as the king's grave. / Faulkner, Peggy -- A long while ago, there was a white thorn growing in Kellystown, Glentogher. / Doherty, Mary -- There was a curious a man living in Gleneely near Culdaff who came to a priests house looking for help. / Doherty, Mary -- There is an old story told of a man who lived in Ballyliffin, Co Donegal, about fifty years ago and he helped monks across the water. / Doherty, Mary -- There was a boy named John Brian who lived in Gleneely, about forty years ago. / Doherty, Mary -- It was customary with the old people to get up very early on the first morning of May in order to see the first morning smoke in the chimneys about fifty years ago there lived an old woman in Strass, two miles outside Carndonagh, Co Donegal. / Doherty, Mary Josephine -- About fifty years ago there was a man who lived in a townland in Inishowen. / Doherty, Mary Josephine -- Near the Hillhead there is a Protestant church, and about 54 years ago there was a ghost beiing seen there. / Doherty, Lily -- There is holy well in Oldtown, Culdaff. / Donnell, Rose O' -- Once upon a time - perhaps sixty years ago - there was a branch bank in one of the townlands near Carndonagh, and the bank managers went on his trap once a week to this branch bank. -- Once there was a man who said he could not to frightened and a friend of his said he would bet five pounds that he would be frightened that night. / Laughlin, Kathleen Mc -- Over sixty years ago there lived a little girl, and her mother and father and aunt, near the village of Culldaff. -- One morning about six o clock a man went to the hill for a load of turf. -- Funny Story Current of this District -- Over ninety years ago two men who lived in Clonmary were great companions. -- Funny Story -- About fifty years ago there lived a family in Clonmary, who had grown very indifferent and had let their farm go to loss. -- There was a house in Collin, near Carndonagh called the "Step In". -- Roger Doherty lived in a house in Glentogher , there was a big stone in front of the door and the man thought it better to move it somewhere else. / Eleney, Mary Teresa Mc -- Once upon a time a boy named Pat O'Conner, Gleneely, Culdaff, was hired with a farmer for twenty years. / Donnell, Rose O' -- About seventy years ago a man named Mac Devitt lived Tiernaleague, Carndonagh. -- About a hundred years ago an old woman named Bridget Mac Dermott lived at foot of the hill of Cruckroosky. -- Once upon a time there was a rich man who lived in a lovely big castle out in Culdaff, Co Donegal. -- About fifty years ago there was a vacant house in this district near Collin, Carndonagh, which was for sale. -- Once our lord had been carrying a heavy cross, and there was a shoemaker sitting at work, and our Lord asked to get resting, and the shoemaker told him that there was where he should rest pointing to the cross. / Canny, Maude -- At Malin town there was a poor old man to whom the fairies had given a cow told him not to part with it. / Kavanagh, Monica -- Over sixty years ago here was an old woman called Kitty living in the town land of Effishmore, Culdaff. / Kavangh, Monica -- Saint Columba was very charitable to the poor and he made a rule that they were to come at a certain hour. / Kavanagh, Monica -- Long ago there was a man living in Glentogher, Carndonagh and his name was Morrison. / Guinness, Eileen Mc -- About fifty years ago a young man lived with his father, mother, and brother in Cashelcraw, Carndonagh. / Dever, Greta -- Forges / Callum, Susie Mac -- Weather-Lore -- Guesses -- Local Happenings / Kearney, Mary -- One time there was a large house, situated in Glenmakee, in the parish of Carndonagh, and it was supposed to be haunted by a protestant minister whose name I am unable to find. / Doogan, Maeve -- Burning of a Court-House / Doogan, Maeve -- About two hundred years ago as there was great foreign ship called the "Mary Snow" landing near Glenagivney Bay a few miles distant from Inishowen Head, with a large supply of foreign rum and tobacco. / Long, Sadie Maria -- Leigheasanna / Chaomhnaigh, Monica Ní -- Old Cures / Doherty, Betty -- The dandelion was drawn as tea is now is, and was given to people suffering from heart trouble on bronchitis. / Canny, Maude -- Old Customs and Beliefs -- Foods in Old Times / Donough, Mary B. Mac -- When people in olden times were having their tea, they just pulled a creel out into the middle of the floor and set it at a slanting angle by putting on turf under one side of it. / Donough, Mary B. Mac -- Shipwreck / Canny, Maud -- A ship called the "Brigg" sank at the mouth of the Culdaff river. -- Old Irish Prayers -- Old Irish Prayers -- Old Irish Prayers -- Old Songs -- Old Songs -- Old Songs / Long, Sadie Maria -- Emigrant's Grave / Long, Sadie Maria -- Emereld Isle
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.