DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4713261
title: Gleann Fleisge

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Gleann Fleisge (school) (Glenflesk, Co. Kerry), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Donnchadh Ó Spiolláin.
description: Widow's Sons / Kelly, Con -- Mike Purcell / Courtney, Maurice -- Snow White / Byrne, Kathleen -- House on the Lios / Donoghue, Eileen -- There was an English man and an Irish man and a Scotch man in town this day. -- How the Doolougs came to Lough Guitane / Spillane, Owen -- A man named Paddy O Rourke lived near Killarney a long time ago. / Shine, Stephen -- Fort in Mrs Byrne's Land in Glenflesk / Byrne, Kathleen -- A man and his wife and children were gone to bed one night. / Healy, Maureen -- Fort in Mrs Margaret O Donoghue's Land in Killaha / Donoghue, Colm -- Log an Airgid / Donovan, Denis -- Fort in Mrs Margret Donoghue's Land in Killaha / Donoghue, Colm -- Fort in Con Donoghue's Land in Rusheen More / Donovan, Denis -- Old Fort / Spillane, Owen -- Fort in Michael D. O Donoghue's Land in Killaha / Donoghue, Michael -- Fort in Mr Lyne's Land in Coolies / Spillane, Owen -- Fort in Mrs P. Donoghue's Land in Gortdromakiery / Spillane, Owen -- Fort in Mr Jack Counihan's Land in Lough Guitane / Spillane, Owen -- Hidden Treasure / Spillane, Owen -- Hidden Treasure / Ealuighthe, Máirín Ní h- -- Hidden Treasure / Dongohue, Hanna -- Hidden Treasure / Leary, Pat -- Hidden Treasure / Spillane, Tim -- Piseoga -- Piseoga -- There was a man there long ago and he had a small shabby little house. / Heay, Maureen -- Once upon a time there lived an old woman and an old man in the middle of Lough-Quittane lake in an Island. / Spillane, Owen -- There lived a woman in Crosstown long ago. -- There was a big hole in on of our fields. / Healy, Maureen -- There was a man who left his home to go to his uncle's in Bealna Stroghera. / Healy, Maureen -- Pisoega -- House on the Lios / Donoghue, Eileen -- Páirc a' Tuille / Healy, Denis -- Leprachaun / Donoghue, Colm -- The Pot of Gold -- Cois abhainn a gClaideach do chaitheas tréimhse i dtosach mo shaoghail, le buachaillí aeraca ar dá thaobh an Cí bhí rinnce is ceol ann ag fir mná óga. -- Story -- There was once a man who was sick and he sent for the priest. / Hayes, Michael -- Is dúbhach dealbh deórach an pósadh do gealladh dom go h-óg mé a cheangail le sean-donán. -- Is brónach mise anois agus is cuis dom fe méar. -- Mo grád is mo laogh tú agus dé bheatha cughain. -- Ráca Breá mo Chinn -- Tá spéir-bhruineall taitneamhach bhanamhail grádhmhar caoin dom éásad le sealadh i gan fhios dom cáirde gaoil. -- One day as I chanced for to roam is mo caolech agam-sa go groidhe. -- Eistigh a dhaoine le'm breithre. -- Ar mo ghabhail tríd an mbaile gur mh'ainm ráth Cúmhaill do chonnac an ainnir ba taitneamhach lium. -- Tráthnóinín déanach is mé a' dul a' bhálraeracht casadh orm spéir bhean is í a' caoí. -- Fiach -- Diarmuid 'Ac Séamus an File -- Insín na Glotharnaí -- Signs of the Weather / Donovan, Denis -- Riddles
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.