DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4921933
title: Baile Giolla tSionáin (C.)

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Baile Giolla tSionáin (C.) (school) (Ballygiltenan Upper, Co. Limerick), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Máiréad, Bean Uí Chathaláin.
description: Seo cuid de sna piseogaibh go mbíodh baint aca le lá Bealtaine... / Cathláin, Máiréad Bean Uí -- Chreideadh na daoine, leis, go ndeineadh seanamhná go mbíodh diabhlaidheacht aca girrfhidhthe díobh féin... / Cathláin, Máiréad Bean Uí -- Seo nós a bhíodh ar siúbhail timceall na h-áite seo fadó... / Cathláin, Máiréad Bean Uí -- Seo rud a bhíonn ar siubhal Oidhche Samhna ag daoine óga... / Cathláin, Máiréad Bean Uí -- Seo rud a bhíonn ar siubhal Oidhche Shamhna ag daoine óga... / Cathláin, Máiréad Bean Uí -- Tá nós nó dhó ag baint le h-Oidhche Nodlag bheag... / Cathláin, Máiréad Bean Uí -- There was a man in Ballyguiltenane once, who lived with his son... / Sheehan, Mary -- There was a doctor going to a sick person one night and his motor broke down... / Sheehan, Mary -- In a field near Ballyguiltenane school is a deep hole. On May eve fairies are seen there... / Sheehan, Mary -- Once upon a time there lived a youth named Jimmy... / Windle, Nancy -- Once upon a time there lived a tailor and his wife... / Windle, Nancy -- Long ago tailors went to houses making clothes. A tailor went one day to a certain house to make clothes... / Windle, Nancy -- There is a place near my home which is called Poll Dorcha. It is said that there is gold hidden there... / Windle, Nancy -- There was a man coming home from a dance about two o'clock... / Evoy, Mary Mc -- When the Danes came to Ireland in 795 they built castles and strongholds all over the country... / Enright, Hannah -- Long ago a ghost used to appear in Abha na sráide to anyone that would be out after mid-night... / Culhane, Josephine -- There was a house once which was built on a path. The people used to hear music and dancing every night... / Culhane, Josephine -- Long ago the pagan priests offered sacrifice on altars called Druidical altars or Chromlechs... / Hanlon, Peggy -- Páirch na Laogh. It is so called because calves are in it always... / Culhane, Josephine / Ahern, Shiela -- There was a man going to Listowel one morning very early. He met a woman in the road dressed in white, and she was barefooted... / Hanlon, Peggy -- A woman lived long ago who was always getting a toothache. She went to a witch for a cure... / Hanlon, Peggy -- There lived a woman in Dirreen who gave in to piseóga very much... / Ahern, Shiela -- The cnucán is situated about a mile from my home it resembles a bowl turned upside down... / Ahern, Shiela -- There is another story about the cnucán. A man went ploughing it one day to set wheat in it... / Ahern, Shiela -- A fair is held in sweet Glin town At the dawning of each year On the first of dark December When Christmas times are near... / Lynch, Kathleen -- Paddy dear you're welcome here from Cappamore so gay Yourself and Jim the stones to break in Blain so near Athea... / Lynch, Joan -- One morning a man was going to a fair about three o'clock. He had six calves and a cow driving them before him... / Fitzgerald, Nora -- In Turraree there is a light seen almost every night and anybody that will cross that way after ten o'clock is sure to be frightened with it... / Fitzgerald, Nora -- There is a certain well near Shanagolden called the spirit well... / Hanlon, Peggy -- One morning there was a man going to a fair and he met a ghost... / Hanlon, Peggy -- There was a man in BallyGuiltenane who lived with his son. There was a little field situated near the house... / Fitzgerald, Nora -- One Xmas morning two men were going to early Mass... / Culhane, Josephine -- Long ago there lived a man, woman, and their two sons near Limerick. One of them went to the city working... / Culhane, Josephine -- Some time ago a woman in Glin was ironing clothes at a table... / Culhane, Josephine -- One night a man from BallyGuiltenane was going to a fair... / Culhane, Josephine -- Not long ago a boy from Glin was going to a fair with cattle... / Culhane, Josephine -- One time there stood a little hut in a lonely mountain... / Enright, Hannah -- One Christmas night a woman from Glin was lighting candles... / Enright, Hannah -- In Glin it was the other night A dreadful fight took place Between the Dillanes and Thompsons Which proved a great disgrace... / Enright, Hannah -- Twenty froggies went to school Down beside a wee pool... / Sheehan, Joan -- There is a lesson in each flower A story in each stream and bower... / Sheehan, Joan -- There was a man there one night and he was going home late from walking... / Culhane, Margaret -- There was a man one day out in the meadow saving hay... / Lynch, Josey -- One night a man in Turraree was going to a fair A motor-car passed him without a driver... / Lynch, Josey
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.