DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4493759
title: St Mary's, Buncrana

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from St Mary's, Buncrana (school) (Buncrana, Co. Donegal), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Máire, Bean Uí Bhraonáin.
description: Weather Signs / Laughlin, Denis Mc -- Marriage Customs / Loughlin, Denis Mc -- One Early Morning / Armour, Patrick -- Riddles -- Riddles / Donnell, Lilly O' -- Old Cures / Laughlin, Seán Mc -- Led Astray / Grant, Maisie -- Taken Away by Fairies / Doherty, Margaret Mary -- Meals of the People Long Ago / Laughlin, Annie Mc -- Superstitions / Laughlin, Madeline Mc -- Superstitions / Grant, Maisie -- Grinding of the Corn -- Flax / Armour, Patrick -- Story / Laughlin, Annie Mc -- Thatching / Guiness, Dan Mc -- Holy Wells and Mass Rocks / Doherty, Mary -- Sloke -- Old Age Pensioners / Laughlin, Annie Mc -- Proverbs / Laughlin, Annie Mc -- Festival Customs -- Old Methods of Cooking / Laughlin, Madeline Mc -- Conundrums / Gillespie, Bridget -- Turas / Laughlin, Annie Mc -- Gentle Bushes / Laughlin, Annie Mc -- Caves / Doherty, Annie Mary -- Fair Day Long Ago / Guinness, Dan Mc -- Landlord Days / Doherty, Elizabeth -- My First Shoes / Armour, Charles -- Famine / Doherty, Margaret Mary -- Churning / Armour, Charles -- Long ago there were coats named walecoats and these were worn by the Donegal men when going up to Devy to beat the Orangemen. / Donaghey, Bridget -- Grandma's Games / Doherty, Elish O' -- Local Forts / Donaghey, Bridget -- Story / Laughlin, Madeleine Mc -- Buncrana and the District / Doherty, Elizabeth -- My Grandfather's Schooldays / Donaghey, Bridget -- Local History / Loughlin, Denis Mc -- Story / Doherty, Mary -- Folklore / Doherty, Mary -- Where Bricks Were Made / Doherty, Mary -- Story / Donaghey, Bridget -- Story / Doherty, Elizabeth -- Story / Donaghey, Bridget -- The church at Cockhill is not built on the site where the foundation stone was first laid. / Doherty, Elizabeth -- The above mentioned lady says she always believed that a source of bogbean in Spring kept sickness and the doctor away for the rest of the year. / Armour, Charles -- It was believed in my young days that certain people could take the butter from the neighbours' milk, and put it in their own. / Doherty, Elizabeth -- She often heard strangers coming to this place talk about the bushes that are growing here and there through the fields. / Doherty, Margaret Mary -- A few evenings ago I paid a visit to the house of the above named lady. She showed me a stone and asked me to observe it carefully. / Armour, Charlie -- Olden Times / Deehan, John -- Story / Armour, Pat -- When my Mother was a young girl she began, she and three neighbour girls were out walking on a Sunday evening. / Armour, Pat -- Castle - Buncrana / Donaghey, Bridget -- Few Hours with the Old People / Grant, Philomena -- Old Sayings / Donnell, Lily O' -- When my Grandmother got married sixty-five years ago she went to live in a little house about a couple of miles from town. / Hagan, James O' -- Story / Guinness, Pat Mc -- The old people took great care of their feet and seldom or never had corns. / Armour, Charles -- Story / Deehan, John -- About seventy years ago two families lived in Slavery. / Doherty, Mary -- Rambler from Clare / Doherty, Mary -- There were two kinds of travellers many years ago. / Donnell, Lily O' -- Local Poets / Donaghey, Bridget -- Local Ruins / Doherty, Mary -- Landlord Days in Ireland - Eviction of a Donegal Priest / Doherty, Mary -- Somewhere in Donegal there is a hill where Fionn Mac Cumail and his best warriors are supposed to be sleeping. / Doherty, Elizabeth -- When he was a small boy he said he was hired and had to work very hard. / Doherty, Mary -- Long ago there were many industries in this country. / Doherty, Mary -- Long ago some people kept game cocks, and these were put to fight in certain places. / Hagan, James O' -- At the Fireside / Donaghey, Bridget -- Local Industries / Carron, Andrew Mc -- We often hear people say "Oh there is no fasting now" said an old lady and gave a description of her early time with regard to fast. -- Some of the names of the places around here are Irish and have some meaning. / Doherty, Elizabeth -- Long Ago / Deehan, John -- Great Man Remembered / Laughlin, Annie Mc
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.