DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4666592
title: Murher (B.)

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Murher (B.) (school) (Murher, Co. Kerry), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Tomás Ó Conaill.
description: Tarbert Drowning / Corridan, John -- Fairy Child / Walsh, Joe -- Fool / Walsh, Joe -- Ghost / walsh, Joe -- Ghost / Corridan, John -- Fairy Story / Corridan, John -- Fairy Story / Corridan, John -- Fairy Story / Corridan, John -- Years ago people were very much afraid to be out at night lest they should see or hear the headless coach. / Corridan, John -- Not very long ago two young men set out on a harvest night to steal a bag of apples from a neighbour. / Corridan, John -- Long ago people used to fight with blackthorn sticks. / Walsh, Joe -- Long ago there was a man living in Tarbert whose name was John Lysed. / Mulvihill, Michael -- Long ago tailors used to travel from house to house mending and making clothes, as the case may be. / Mulvihill, Michael -- Newtown Pattern / Kearney, Con -- There was a man returning home late one night. / Mulvihill, Michael -- Headless Coach / Mulvihill, Michael -- Once upon a time there was a man who used to go out hunting every day. / Mulvihill, Michael -- A priest names Fr. George O Callahan was Curate in Newtownsandes. / Kearney, Con -- Salt-Making / Kearney, Con -- Story of a Fort / Fennell, James -- Fairy Story / Fennell, James -- Fairy Story / Walsh, Joe -- Fairy Story / Culhane, Maurice -- Fairy Story / Culhane, Maurice -- Fairy Story / Culhane, Maurice -- Forts / Corridan, John -- Headless Coach / Stack, John -- after the old Knight of Glin's death, there were horses seen galloping around the castle grounds. / Stack, John -- Story / Stack, John -- Mermaid / Stack, John -- Once upon a time there lived three young men whose names were Jack, Joe and Tim. / Stack, John -- Once upon a time there were two men who were cousins living in adjoining farms, one having a much smaller farm than the other. / Corridan, John -- Story / Stack, Patrick -- Story / Stack, Patrick -- Story / Stack, Patrick -- Headless Coach / Fennell, James -- One night as a man was passing through a field he caught a leprechaun. / Fennell, James -- One morning a man went out to drive in his cows to milk them. / Fennell, James -- One night a priest was returning home from a feast he met a woman on the road. / Fennell, James -- Fr Harnett / Walsh, Joe -- In times of old, it is said a troop of fairies used to play about the borders of an Irish lake. / Stack, John -- One night two little girls went into the church praying, and after being there for a while they felt very tired and they lay don in the seat and fell asleep. / Stack, John -- Once upon a time there was a boy and he used to be always out late at night. / Donoghue, Tom -- Once upon a time there was a poor man and he had only one cow, and the field where she was grazing was very small, and there was also a fort in it. / Donaghue, Tom -- Once upon a time there were two boys who went into a church, and one began to kick a skol around the church and these are the words the boy said, "I invite you to my house some night". / Donoghue, Tom -- According to tradition there was a castle in the glen, about three miles from Newtown. / Culhane, John -- One night as a nurse was returning to Newtown after attending to a patient in Knockanure she was passing a fort when a man came out of it and asked her to come in to see his wife. / Culhane, John -- There once lived in the remotest part of Kerry a man that had a wife and family but he had nothing to do to support them. / Culhane, John -- Big Wind / Stack, Pat -- Gunsboro, in the parish of Ballybunion was the scene on one occasion of a public execution. / Stack, Pat -- Hidden Treasure / Stack, Pat -- Fairies -- Story -- Story -- Story / Stack, Pat -- In the year 1848, and 1849, the famine came to Ireland. / Stack, Pat -- There was a man who lived in a place called Tullamore in the west of Kerry. -- Once upon a time there lived a man and his wife in the town of Asdee. -- Once upon a time there lived a woman in the parish of Tarbert and she had two children. -- Once upon a time there was a man filling a load of sand on the bank of the river, when he saw a mermaid in the water. -- Story / Quinn, Con -- Hidden Treasure / Quinn, Con -- Story / Quinn, Con -- Once upon a time, there was a man, and every night he used to go to the town. / Stack, Richard -- Once upon a time there lived an old woman and her daughter beside a fort. / Stack, Richard -- Once upon a time there was a boy working in a house, and a few years before that, the man of the house died. / Stack, Richard -- When the Danes invaded Ireland they were very cruel to the Irish. / Evoy, Denis Mc -- My Mother's uncle tells a story that happened to himself. / Evoy, Denis Mc -- Once upon a time there lived a shoemaker and his wife. / Evoy, Denis Mc -- Long ago there was a man going to Listowel very early one morning and he saw a big black dog on the side of the road. / Evoy, Denis Mc -- Once upon a time there lived in the parish of Athea a poor man and a boy. / Evoy, Denis Mc -- There was a castle at Glenlappa, Newtownsandes. / Stack, Richard -- One night there was a priest going on a visit to a sick person. / Stack, Richard -- One upon a time there was a boy working in a house in parish of Newtownsandes. / Stack, Richard -- The castle which was erected in Glenlappa was said to be built with a mixture of blood and mortar. / Windle, James -- Long ago there were two men who used to quarrel about land, and meeting each other in a lonely valley through which a river flowed, they began to fight. / Windle, James -- Long ago there lived a man in this neighbourhood by the name of O' Sullivan. / Windle, James -- Long ago there was a house near Glin to which men used to come every night playing cards. / Windle, James -- Cures -- There were two children who met a Leprechaun one day. / Stack, Pat
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.