DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4921764
title: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór (school) (Knocknagree, Co. Cork), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Díarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin.
description: Cnoc na Groighe - the hill of the Stud-Horse - is rich in béaloideas... / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- Cnoc na Groidhe - the hill of the stud-horse has a very interesting history. / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- Old Customs / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- Christenings / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- Death / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- Account of the Evictions at Scrahan March 1880 / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- Other Odds and Ends of Stories / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- Another Little Story From Michael Dennehy / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- Michael informed me in our talk on Nora gCud (the spinning woman) that spinning women went from house to house and often spent months in the one house. / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- On some other occasion let us hope we'll meet Michael... / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- I had a talk with Miss Minnie Buckley (aged 68) of Park. / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- The Land League / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- Mrs Kitty O'Connell (née Kelleher) of Farrankeal aged 80 gave me an account of their eviction and some interesting recollections of her youth. / Muimneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- The Teacher v the Farmer - For the Hand of a Maiden / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- Ceann Eile a Thug Sean-Bhrighid Dom / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- Agus Ceann Eile Fós ó Bhrighid / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- Considering that her late husband Patsy Sheehan was born in 1841 I tried to get some of his tales of the famine and after from Mrs Sheehan and both she and Jeremiah gave me the following. / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- Another tale about Moll's destitution was given to me by Ned Buckley... / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- A Dennehy man in Nohoval fed the people with turnips. / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- An unknown man was found dead in the famine times... / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- John O'Connell's Account of the Land League / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- In a further talk with Denis Dennehy (64) of Scrahan he spoke of the Church, the times, the people and their "clanishness". / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- I have heard some interesting tales of (a) Ghost and Famine (b) Lights, (c) Persons going astray (d) Funerals. / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- (a) (Re lights) what my mother told you about the lights is quite true because as a young lad the lives were frightened out of us by those lights. / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- At the time of the Land League, Michael Dennehy told me, three men from the Knocknagree Branch were ordered to meet a number of men from the Kerry side... / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- I paid a visit to Mrs. Mary Bohan (Senior) Nohoval Upper Knocknagree. / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- Faction Fights / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- Beliefs and Customs / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- Knocknagree Boys' School / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- Final Few Pages / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- An Caoineadh Deireanach a Chualathas i gCnoc na Graí -- Here is an Irish 'Rosary' for the Dead which Mrs Sheehan and her family have said and still say on the three nights... / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó -- Scéilín i dTaobh Eoghain Ruaidh Uí Súilleabháin / Múimhneacháin, Díarmuid Ó
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.