DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4583325
title: Liathdruim

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Liathdruim (school) (Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Máirtín Ó Mainnín.
description: Many years ago there was a stile going into Rathfarn land by which the people used to go to Mass. / Kenny, Mary -- Carrowkeel Well / Kenny, Mary -- Over a century ago most of the houses of the village of Kilmacragh were on the north side of the road. / Kenny, Mary -- One May morning a man got up early and went to look after his stock / Kenny, Mary -- Some years ago the people were very superstitious , but now these superstitions are dying away, and the people know little about them. / Kenny, Mary -- One upon a time there was a man who did know what fear was. / Kenny, Mary -- There was a woman one time coming home by the chapel of Leitrim one night. / Kenny, Mary -- There was a fairy bush in Dalyston wood. / Kenny, Mary -- If you wash a man's shirt and put it to the fire to dry the woman that he will marry will come to take it. / Hardiman, Pauline -- To get a snail and put him into an oven and cover with the lid / Hardiman, Pauline -- There was once a man who lived a few parishes away from here and he had a wife and children. / Linnane, Teresa -- A few years ago a man named Martin Boyle was coming home from a wake in Ballyargadaun about three o'clock in the morning. / Fahy, Delia -- Long ago there was a police-man buried near the factory in Leitrim / Kenny, Mary -- One night two boys went to steal apples. / Kenny, Mary -- A large mansion called Pallas is situated south of Tynagh / Rabbitte, Anna Maria -- Once upon a time there was a hare in a mountain that nobody could shoot. / Fahy, John -- Long ago there lived a man who used to be always picking nuts / Riordan, Bridie -- Once a man met a woman who asked him would he do here a favour. / Riordan, Bridie -- Some time ago all the men used to go out card-playing money. / Kenny, Edward -- A man named Deely was coming home from one night. / Kenny, Edward -- About twenty years ago a Scottish firm was cutting timber in Dalyston wood. / Fahy, Delia -- A long time ago there was a crock of gold hidden beneath a rock in Ballyhogan, Kilrickle / Hardiman, Pauline -- There is a crock of gold hidden in a field near our house / Coleman, Nellie -- Many years ago money was very plentiful about. / Fahy, Christina -- In the demesne of Masonbrook there is an old fort. / Rabbitte, Anna M. -- A head like a thimble, a tail like a rat. / Fahy, John -- A man without eyes saw apples on a tree. / Coleman, Nellie -- Crock of Gold / Linnane, Teresa -- Crock of Gold / Kelly, Peggy -- Riddles / Kelly, Peggy -- Crock of Gold / Fahy, Delia -- Riddles / Fahy, Delia -- Riddles / Hardiman, Pauline -- Crock of Gold / Whelan, Eva -- Crock of Gold / Melia, Belinda -- Riddles / Melia, Belinda -- Funny Story / Melia, Belinda -- Funny Story / Melia, Belinda -- Funny Story / Melia, Belinda -- Riddles / Rabbitte, Anna Maria -- Cures / Kenny, Edward -- Local Funny Story / Whelan, Eva -- Local Funny Story / Fahy, Christina -- Local Trades / Fahy, Seán -- Local Marriages / Coleman, Nellie -- Local Funny Story / Rabbitte, Anna M. -- Famine / Coleman, Nellie -- Penal Laws / Coleman, Nellie -- Local Funny Story / Fahy, Delia -- Crock of Gold -- Weather-Lore / Fahey, Delia -- Old Schools / Fahy, Delia -- Local Trade - Spinning / Whelan, Eva -- Local Funny Story / Kelly, Ethna -- Local Trade / Kelly, Ethna -- Names of Fields / Kelly, Ethna -- Beggers / Kelly, Ethna -- Old Sayings / Kenny, Edward -- Names of Fields / Kenny, Edward -- Crock of Gold / Corcoran, Kathleen -- Crock of Gold / Kelly, Ethna -- Funny Story / Fahy, John J. -- Weather-Lore / Hardiman, Pauline -- Night of the Big Wind / Hardiman, Pauline -- Local Trades / Hardiman, Pauline -- Marriages / Hardiman, Pauline -- Pishrogues / Hardiman, Pauline -- Lisses or Forts / Fahy, Delia -- Strong Men / Fahy, John -- Blessed Wells / Fahy, John -- Penal Laws / Flaherty, Agnes -- Forts or Lisses / Flaherty, Agnes -- Blessed Wells / Sheil, Frances -- Care of Feet / Melia, Belinda -- Irish Words / Kelly, Peggy -- Animals / Fahy, John -- Horses and Sheep / Fahy, John -- Corrach Éirnín / Rabbitte, Anna Maria -- Cill Mac Duach / Rabbitte, Anna M. -- Local Hidden Treasure / Conway, Patrick -- Marriages / Rabbitte, Anna M. -- Lucky Days / Rabbitte, Anna M. -- Roads / Rabbitte, Anna M. -- Old Boreens / Melia, Bernard -- Herbs / Hardiman, Denis -- Pious Practices / Fahy, Christina -- On Kylebrack hill I took my quill to pen this naked truth. / Kelly, Ethna -- Old Roads / Kelly, Ethna -- Basket-Making / Rabbitte, Anna M. -- Spinning / Rabbitte, Anna M. -- Lines on the Closing of Carrowkeel Well / Melia, Belinda -- Customs with regard to Farm Animals / Rabbitte, Anna Maria -- About a half a century ago there was a certain woman in Ballinkill and she was able to keep her house with the profit of the butter. / Rabbitte, Anna M. -- Old Sayings / Rabbitte, Anna M. -- Horses / Rabbitte, Anna M. -- Old Schools / Rabbitte, Anna M. -- Night of the Big Wind / Fahy, Delia -- Thunder-Storm / Fahy, Delia -- Marriages / Fahy, Delia -- Name of Fields / Fahy, Delia -- Lucky and Unlucky Days / Fahy, Delia -- Shoes / Fahy, Seán -- Forges / Fahy, Seán -- Care of Feet / Coleman, Nellie -- Forts or Lisses / Coleman, Nellie -- Old Roads / Coleman, Nellie -- My Townland / Coleman, Nellie -- Pious Story - The Journey to Bethlehem / Coleman, Nellie -- Pishrogues / Coleman, Nellie -- Special Days for Sowing Crops / Coleman, Nellie -- Cross Day / Coleman, Nellie -- Beggars / Coleman, Nellie -- Cures from Herbs / Coleman, Nellie -- Herbs that Are for Food / Coleman, Nellie -- Blessed Well / Coleman, Nellie -- Marriage Customs / Conway, Patrick -- Old Forts / Conway, Patrick -- Blessed Wells / Conway, Patrick -- Old Sayings / Conway, Patrick -- Horses and Goats / Conway, Patrick -- Fairs / Melia, Belinda -- Feasts of the Year -- Potatoes / Melia, Bernard -- Old Story / Coleman, Nellie -- Some time ago there lived a landlord several miles from here, who felt displeased with a number of tenants for some unknown reason. / Coleman, Nellie
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.