DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4921923
title: Cill Liath

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Cill Liath (school) (Killeagh, Co. Cork), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Ó Murchadha.
description: Long long ago there lived a man named Fineen Mac Carthy and his wife and children. / Cronin, Mona -- A great many years ago there lived in the Townland of Dangan a poor labourer who with his wife and large family occupied a small mud cabin. / Cotter, Patrick -- About sixty years' ago a little more or less, a carpenter was working in a farm-yard at Ballyling, bounding Castle-Richard where the famous castle is. / Kennedy, Eileen -- Long ago a party of men from Ballynua, heard how there was gold to be found in a rock in Castlerichard, near the old church yard. / Canty, Eillen -- Steeple of Cloyne / Hickey, Patrick -- Mr John Canty / Hickey, Patrick -- Some years ago an old man hid a Crock of gold under a big tree. / Murphy, Patrick -- In a place called Castle Richard near the castle which was built by the Geraldines long ago, a graveyard was built in which the princes and nobles from the castle were interred, a crock of gold was buried. / Cronin, Rosemary -- Long Long ago there lived a little girl about eleven years old she lived with her mother in a little village. / Joyce, Jennie -- Once there was a small farmer who had three sons, two of them were very clever, but the third was, what is commonly called a fool. / Cotter, Mary -- Treasure was supposed to have been buried in Capel Island. / Kennedy, Patrick -- Some years ago a family named Flemmings resided in a beautiful residance in Ballycurrigna. / Grane, Bridie Mc -- Aghadoe, Burgess, Bannafora... -- Funny Story / Kennedy, Paddy -- Clever Fox / Cotter, Mary -- Signs of Rain -- Three brothers went away to seek their fortunes. / Murphy, Patrick -- Ship Been Wrecked / Kennedy, Eileen -- Shipwreck / Cronin, Rosemary -- About seventy years ago a terrible disaster occured on the ocean mid-way between Joughal and the Ferry Point. / Sullivan, Helen O' -- About twenty five years ago a ship named the Tadorna was wrecked at Ballycrenane. / Grane, Bridie Mc -- In the year 1890 there came from the East, a big storm and blizzard. / Joyce, Jennie -- In the year 1887 a severe south-easterly gale swept over the south-east coast of Ireland, particularly the sea coast of Youghal, where a large gap was broken and it flooded the townland of Ballyvergan and the townlands adjoining. / Kennedy, Eileen -- In the month of January in the year 1854 we had a great storm. / Keeffe, Patrick O -- There was once a man working for a farmer. / Grane, Bridie Mc -- There was a man in Gortrue, his father died in Youghal hospital. / Cronin, Mona -- 40 years ago a man was living near Kildinan and he was a great drunkard. / Cronin, Rosemary -- 70 years ago a man lived in Conna. / Cronin, Rosemary -- A miserly farmer who lived near Mitchelstown hired a man to work for him. / Cronin, Rosemary -- Funny Story / Cotter, Patrick -- Funny Story / Ahern, Lulu -- Funny Story / Foley, Dan -- A man from Killeagh went to England to seek for work. / Kennedy, Eileen -- There was an old school in Killeagh in the year 1857. / Kennedy, Eileen -- Mr Mc Grath was an old school-master and he kept an old school-house at Ballyferode in the year 1847. / Kennedy, Eileen -- Near Bally-macoda in a place called Brownbog. / Grane, Bridie Mc -- Long ago there was a school in Ballyhonock. / Hickey, Paddy -- In a place called Gort which is situated near Fannisk a schoolhouse was built 90 years ago. / Cronin, Rosemary -- Trades / Cotter, Patrick -- Old Trades / Grane, Bridie Mc -- Old Trades / Kennedy, Eileen -- Old Trades / Foley, Paddy -- Old Trades / Keeffe, Paddy -- Weddings / Cronin, Mona -- Weddings / Kennedy, Eileen -- Weddings / Ahern, Lulu -- Weddings / Grane, Bridie Mc -- Poets of the Killeagh District / Kennedy, Eileen -- Nellie Bán / Kennedy, Eileen -- Dawning of the Day / Kennedy, Eileen -- Pósadh an Páoraigh / Cronin, Rosemary -- Old Cures -- Old Cures / Kennedy, Eileen -- Old Cures / Grane, Bridie Mc -- Old Cures / Cronin, Mona -- Old Games / Kennedy, Eileen -- Old Games - Pitch and Toss / Kennedy, Paddy -- Prayer / Kennedy, Eileen -- Old Fairs / Kennedy, Eileen -- Old Fairs / Grane, Bridie Mc -- Old Fairs / Cotter, Patrick -- Fairs / Cronin, Rosemary -- Landlords / Grane, Bridie Mc -- Landlords / Kennedy, Eileen -- Landlords -- Landlords -- Meals and Food / Kennedy, Eileen -- Meals and Food / Grane, Bridie Mc -- Meals and Food / Cronin, Rosemary -- Meals and Food / Cotter, Patrick -- Meals and Food / Keeffe, Patrick O -- Ancient Legend -- Gobán Saor / Cotter, Patrick -- Old Cabins / Kennedy, Eileen -- Ancient Houses / Keeffe, Patrick O -- Old Cabins / Cotter, Patrick -- Old Cabins / Grane, Bridie Mc -- Fionn Mac Cumhaill / Kennedy, Eileen -- Fenian Story / Keeffe, Patrick O -- Ightermurragh Castle -- Inchiquin Castle -- Castlerichard Castle -- Remarkable Subterranean River
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.