DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4583309
title: Sraith

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Sraith (school) (Srah, Co. Galway), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Séamus E. Ó Dubhghaill.
description: In the year 1860 in Woodford, Co. Galway, in the townland of Gerrygill, two men named Mahon and Moran lived. / Abberton, Kathleen -- In a country house recently, in the village of Clonmoylan one long winter night, a man by the name of Patrick Tully told a story ... / Porter, Marie -- Potato Crop / Porter, Marie -- Eviction of Saunders / Kemple, Mary -- Biddy Early / Slattery, Michael -- Biddy Early / Abberton, Kathleen -- Biddy Early / Sullivan, Winifred -- Names of Fields -- Hedge-Schools / Porter, Rita -- If a person was receiving a clutch of eggs for a present they would give a penny to the person not to take the luck of the eggs from that person / Kemple, Mary -- May Day / Porter, Marie -- The cuckoo comes in April / Mahon, Birdie Mc -- Tailor / Porter, Marie -- Song about the Eviction -- Forge -- It is unlucky to let anything fall coming out of the chapel ... -- The dead people long ago, were laid out on boards of tables. -- The time of the Evictions a man from Woodford named Stanley and a man from Rossmore named Kickey were in Galway jail... -- Joe Minogue living near Portumna tells a story. -- Disused Roads -- Local Forge / Porter, Marie -- Long ago the people worked and made everything their own way, because they were poor ... / Porter, Marie -- Local Cures / Porter, Marie -- Long ago the old people that died, were laid out on a table. / Porter, Marie -- On May Eve the people got the May pole. / Kemple, Mary -- There are three tailors in this district. / Kemple, Mary -- On St. Martin's Day they do not work in the mill ... / Kemple, Mary -- There are five forges in this parish. / Kemple, Mary -- Long ago candles were made from tallow. / Kemple, Mary -- Whit Monday is the unluckiest day in the year. / Kemple, Mary -- Long ago their was a man in Clonmoylan who had a very bad tooth ... / Kemple, Mary -- One day a tramp went into Lyons in Abbey looking for horse hair. / Kemple, Mary -- The leipreachan was called the greasuide leipreachan. / Kemple, Mary -- There was a woman who lived on the bank of the Shannon in Kylenamally. / Kemple, Mary -- The people cut the May Poles long ago. / Mahon, Birdie Mc -- The cuckoo land is a lamb that is born after the twentieth of April ... / Mahon, Birdie Mc -- Local Cures / Mahon, Birdie Mc -- They used to dig a hole in they ground and put a bath of water down in the hole and when the hare would come ... / Mahon, Birdie Mc -- It would be unlucky to open a grave on a Monday. / Mahon, Bridie Mc -- John Minogue's uncle got married and they reared a family. / Mahon, Birdie Mc -- Long ago they used to leave the corpse on a table in the middle of the floor. / Mahon, Birdie Mc -- On May day the people stich. / Slattery, Michael -- Long ago people made wax candles from bees wax. / Slattery, Michael -- A foxes tongue would draw a thorn ... / Slattery, Michael -- Tom Donaly of Doura was a poet ... / Slattery, Michael -- Torpahy of Cooscaun ate his breakfast in his own house and walked to Limerick ... / Slattery, Michael -- The October fair is the best fair for cattle because they are fat from the after grass. / Slattery, Michael -- Clanrichard was the land lord of the county Galway. / Slattery, Michael -- There are two tailors in this district. / Slattery, Michael -- There are eight tailors, their names are ... / Porter, Thomas -- A fright would cure a hiccough. / Porter, Thomas -- A man named Blake put a poor woman out of her house ... / Porter, Thomas -- The people spilt blood in the corner of the house / Dwyer, Pat Joe -- Nine harrows pins would take away bad luck. / Dwyer, Pat Joe -- It is never lucky to open a grave on a monday. / Dwyer, Pat Joe -- At the October fair the people have to pay one penny on each bonham four pennies on cattle. / Dwyer, Pat Joe -- The people grew tobacco for their own use. / Dwyer, Pat Joe -- Once upon a time there were two girls living in a house ... / Dwyer, Pat Joe -- If you found a tip of a shoe on the road you would have good luck for that year. / Dwyer, Pat Joe -- A fright would cure a hiccough. / Broder, Jerry -- It is unlucky to open a grave on a Monday / Broder, Jerry -- long ago their was a poor wooman and she was put out of the house ... / Quinn, Michael -- There was a man and he lived near the sea. / Sullivan, Brigid -- A man heard music in a house one night he went in to the house. / Sullivan, Brigid -- There was too brothers and they were very great with one another. / Sullivan, Brigid -- One magpie is for bad luck and two is for good luck. / Sullivan, Brigid -- Long ago the people used have stirabout for their supper. / Sullivan, Brigid -- Two tailors ? tailor Burke and tailor Power. / Glasby, Mary -- Local Forges / Glasby, Mary -- Local Cures / Glasby, Mary -- Local Stories / Glasby, Mary -- Local Stories / Mulvehill, C. -- Local Stories / Lyons, Brendan
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.