DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4758509
title: Ballyhale

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Ballyhale (school) (Ballyhale, Co. Kilkenny), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Eibhlín Ní Shúilleabháin.
description: Parish of Ballyhale -- Hidden Treasure -- Hidden Treasure / Hennebry, Nellie -- Hidden Treasure / Dempsey, Peggy -- Hidden Treasure / Hennebry, Nellie -- Hidden Treasure -- Funny Stories -- Funny Stories / Fitzpatrick, Thomas -- Funny Stories / Long, Mary -- Weather-Lore -- Signs of Fine weather -- Local Heroes -- Local Heroes / Long, Eilis Ní -- Local Heroes / Breathnach, Máire -- Local Heroes / Wall, Maureen -- Local Heroes / Walsh, Brigid -- Severe Weather / Inderbí, Eibhlín Ní -- Severe Weather / Longaigh, Eilis Ní -- Severe Weather / Breathnach, Máire -- Severe Weather / Longaigh, Máire Ní -- Blizzard of 1917 / Súilleabháin, Eilbhlín Ní -- Blizzard of 1917 / Holden, John -- Blizzard of 1917 / Díomasaigh, Peigí Ní -- Blizzard of 1917 / Walsh, Brigid -- Home Crafts - Candle-Making / Wall, Máirín -- Candle-Making - The Dip Candle / Holden, John -- Home Crafts - The Dip Candle / Eacada, Siobhan Ní -- Old Crafts - Nail-Making / Walsh, Brigid -- Old Crafts - Basket-Making / Tobin, Alice -- Old Crafts - Hat-Making -- Old Crafts - Leather Tanning -- Farm Animals / Henebry, Nellie -- Hedge-Schools -- Hedge-Schools / Inderbí, Eibhlín Ní -- Hedge-Schools / Dempsey, Margaret -- Graveyards - Old Burials in the Parish of Ballyhale / Shúilleabhain, Eibhlín Ní -- Graveyards - Kilcurl / Inderbí, Eibhlín Ní -- Kilcurl / Walsh, Maire -- Graveyards - Knocktopher / Longaigh, Máire Ní -- Graveyards - Knocktopher / Hennebry, Nellie -- Graveyards - Kilkeasy / Fitzpatrick, Thomas -- Derrynahinch Graveyard / Hawe, Joseph -- Local Poets and Their Rhymes / Davis, Stephen -- Local Poets and Their Rhymes / Hennebry, Nellie -- Local Poets and Their Rhymes / Hennebry, Nellie -- Local Poets and Their Rhymes / Dempsey, Peggy -- Local Poets and Their Rhymes / Walsh, Brigid -- Local Poets and Their Rhymes / Long, Mary -- Fairy Story / Henebry, Nellie -- In and around this district there are many fairy forts calles raths or as we pronounce it 'raw' or 'rawheen'. / Henebry, Nellie -- Fairy Forts / Walsh, Brigid -- Fairy Forts / Dempsey, Margaret -- Ruined Castles of this District -- Ruined Castles - Castlebanny Castle -- Ruined Castles - Kilcurl Castle -- Wells -- Wells -- Townlands - Ballyhale / Walsh, Brigid -- Townlands - Derrynahinch -- Townlands - Kiltorcan -- Townlands - Castlebanny -- Townlands - Coolmeen -- Townlands - Knockwilliam -- Football Match / Walsh, Brigid -- Forfeited Point / Walsh, Brigid -- Fairy Story from Castlebanny / Henebry, Nellie -- Story / Long, Eilis -- Townlands - Rosboultra -- Townlands - Kilcurl -- Townlands - Ballybray -- Story / Henebry, Nellie -- Once upon a time a man from this district was called up in the middle of the night by his herd who informed him that one of his mares was foaled. / Walsh, John -- Story / Walsh, John -- Flail / Dempsey, Peggy -- Care of the Farm Animals / Dempsey, Peggy -- Horses / Dempsey, Peggy -- Calls / Dempsey, Peggy -- Games / Dempsey, Peggy -- In this district the practice of making Saint Brigid's and St. Patrick's crosses has been given up this long time. / Henebry, Nellie -- Brigid's Band / Long, Eilis
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.