DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4427969
title: N. Seosamh, Cill Lasrach

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from N. Seosamh, Cill Lasrach (school) (Killasser, Co. Mayo), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher S. Mac Carrghamhna.
description: Traditions Connected with Our Lord and the Blessed Virgin - The Sevenfold Love of the Mother for Her Son -- Na Tincéirí an Dream is Mí-Ámharaí Lá amuigh -- Origin of Tobacco at Wakes -- How the Goat Lost its Fleece of Wool -- Why the Raideog Never Grew -- Cross on the Asses' Back -- Why there Is a Cure in Tow -- Why there Is Supposed to Be Poison in the Needle and No Poison in a Cobbler's Awl -- Why the Wasp Should Be Killed and the Cricket Spared -- Origin of the Moy -- Places of Interest in the Locality and Stories Connected with them - Geata na hAltóra -- Places of Interest in the Locality and Stories Connected with them - Fross Mór -- Places of Interest in the Locality and Stories Connected with them - Ballinacurra -- How Columcille Converted Tory Island -- Fionn's Hospitality -- Landlords -- Food in Olden Times -- St Lasair -- Forts -- Local Cures -- Superstitious Beliefs -- Wake Games - Reata -- Food / Caron, Joseph P. -- Rann / Caron, Joseph P. -- Seán Maghuidhir a ghleanna / Caron, Joseph P. -- Seanfhocal / Caron, Joseph P. -- Scéal / Caron, Joseph P. -- Rann Eile / Caron, Joseph P. -- Féile Bríde Bricín / Caron, Joseph P. -- Scéal / Caron, Joseph P. -- A Dhomhnaill Uí Chonaill, an dtuigeann tú Gaedhilg! / Caron, Joseph P. -- Amhrán / Caron, Joseph P. -- If the old people heard of elderly people getting married they'd say "Ní hé posadh an uastaráin é". / Caron, Joseph P. -- Uisce na dTrí Teorannachaí / Caron, Joseph P. -- A girl named O'Grady went to Aclare pattern and was spotted by a man from the wilds of Attymaas. / Caron, Joseph P. -- The used to have to walk from Cloonfinish to Drogheda to meet the boat from England. / Caron, Joseph P. -- French '98 / Caron, Joseph P. -- Wells / Caron, Joseph P. -- There is an old white thorn bush (at Gavagan's) Cloonfinish and they used to spread the clothes on it. / Caron, Joseph P. -- Superstitious Beliefs / Caron, Joseph P. -- Scéal / Caron, Joseph P. -- Eve last night about three weeks ago I received a sad glad letter of an old hag's death. / Caron, Joseph P. -- There was man called Hennigan living in Cloonagh at one time. / Caron, Joseph P. -- Weather Signs (Signs of Rain) / Caron, Joseph P. -- Signs of Fine Weather / Caron, Joseph P. -- The crowing of a hen is very unlucky and a hen that crows should be killed. / Caron, Joseph P. -- There is a belief that if there's a white cock in the yard that the man of the house will be in good health while the white cock remains alive. / Caron, Joseph P. -- Seanfhocal / Caron, Joseph P. -- You shouldn't exchange a hen for a hen or a duck for a duck, it is supposed to be unlucky. / Caron, Joseph P. -- The lending of a hatching hen to a neighbour brings ill luck. / Caron, Joseph P. -- A clutch of eggs, for the purpose of setting under a hen should not be washed before presenting some to a neighbour. / Caron, Joseph P. -- The screeching of the grouse is taken as 'Sparáil an Fraoch'. / Caron, Joseph P. -- There is a lake in Cuillonaughton, Callow, Killasser which is known as loch a' císte... / Caron, Joseph P. -- There lived at one time in Cuillonaughton, Callow, Foxford a chieftain called Naughton o' Ruadáin... / Caron, Joseph P. -- Some believe that the St Lasair after whom this parish named was a daughter of St Ronan's. / Caron, Joseph P. -- Wake Customs / Caron, Joseph P. -- Scéal / Caron, Joseph P. -- The fairies are supposed to have gone since the prayers after mass started. / Caron, Joseph P. -- Haunted Places in the Locality - At Bóithrín Úr / Caron, Joseph P. -- Haunted Places in the Locality - At Martin's Gate / Caron, Joseph P. -- Haunted Places in the Locality - At Sceachach / Caron, Joseph P. -- Haunted Places in the Locality - At Omar (i.e. on the Ballinacurra Road) / Caron, Joseph P. -- Haunted Places in the Locality - At Cnoc Brianaigh / Caron, Joseph P. -- Haunted Places in the Locality - Casadh Coirnéal / Caron, Joseph P. -- Haunted Places in the Locality - In Tom the Buck's Old House / Caron, Joseph P. -- Haunted Places in the Locality - At Tiernan's Old House / Caron, Joseph P. -- Superstitious Beliefs and Observances / Caron, Joseph P. -- Cailleach Béarach / Caron, Joseph P. -- Cailleach Béarach as a Mower / Caron, Joseph P. -- Cailleach Béarach as a Builder / Caron, Joseph P. -- Gobán Saor / Caron, Joseph P. -- How Gobán Saor Selected a Wife for His Son / Caron, Joseph P. -- Mull na gCích / Caron, Joseph P. -- Killconduff / Caron, Joseph P. -- Stretching between Dromeda and Gurteen lies a bog known as Esker bog. / Caron, Joseph P. -- In a field belonging to James Peyton (John) known as the fort field (the fort referred to on page 81) unbaptised children were buried. / Caron, Joseph P.
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.