DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5009278
title: Naomh Bríghid, Blackwater

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Naomh Bríghid, Blackwater (school) (Blackwater, Co. Wexford), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin.
description: Near the ruined church of Saints Peter and Paul in Ballyvaloo, a village midway on the east Wexford coast there is a low grassy hill known locally as the "Muileán". / Chearbhall, Áine Ní -- In two places in this parish there is what is called locally a "Money Hole". -- Nearly one hundred years ago a man named "Toby the Thatcher" emigrated to America with a great number of other people that were leaving the country because of the famine. / Chearbhall, Áine Ní -- Do bhí fear ann fadó agus do bhí móinfhéar aige. / Shúilleabháin, Máire Ní -- Riddles -- Local Happenings - The Wreck of the Pomona -- Local Happenings - The Wreck of the Lydia -- Local Heroes -- Severe Weather -- Big Wind of 1839 -- Old Schools -- Local Marriage Customs -- Shipwrecks - Loss of the Tinnaberna Fishermen -- Local Heroes -- Churning -- Churning -- Festival Customs -- Old Methods of Making Bread -- Old Crafts -- Old Crafts -- Famine -- Famine -- Public Works -- Old Methods of Sowing Potatoes -- Modern Methods in this Place -- Fairy Forts -- Fairy Forts -- Fairy Forts -- Fairy Story -- On the field adjoining the haggard attached to my home there is an ancient graveyard. -- There was a man in Ballyconigar not so very long ago by the name of Patrick Quirk and he was very fond of telling old stories. -- Old Graveyards - Blackwater Parish -- Old Graveyards -- Old Graveyard at Roideanach on the Soreen Road -- Discovery near John Kehoe's House, Killincooley -- Killincooley Graveyard -- Béaloideas in Ballyvalloo Graveyard -- Killila Graveyard -- Old Marriage Customs -- Old Marriage Customs - What Master Joe Lacy Heard in the Local Froge -- Old Marriage Customs - Cutting the Bridecake -- Old Marriage Customs -- Hurling and Football Matches -- Townlands of Blackwater Parish -- Local Happenings - Shipwrecks -- Local Happenings - The Wreck of the Welcome -- Local Happenings - The Wreck of the Pomona -- Local Happenings - Wreck of the George and Elizabeth -- Local Happenings - Wreck of the Bane Ship -- Severe Weather -- Old Crafts -- Farm Operations - Threshing with a Flail -- Farm Operations - Sowing Potatoes Immediately After Famine -- Old Cures -- The same Stephens was the means of bringing back the 'Profit' to a certain farm. -- Food in Olden Times -- Making of Bread -- Fairy Stories -- Local Poets -- Manufacture of Linen -- Old Houses -- Leipreachán -- Marriage Customs -- Hedge-Schools -- Béaloideas on Rebellion of '98 -- Old Cures -- Old Churches -- Care of the Feet -- Churning -- Bird-Lore -- Fairy Forts -- Ghost Story -- Mass Paths -- Holy Wells -- Herbs - Curative -- Herbs - Curative -- Curious Happening -- Body-Snatching -- Local Happenings - Weird -- Lore of Certain Days - Harvest of the Geese -- Holy Wells -- Local Forges -- Care of the Feet -- Local Fairs -- Local Poets -- Seanscéal - Seán Bán Gabha -- Smuggling -- Old Games - Buttons -- Old Games - Tops -- Local Happenings
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.