DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4428058
title: Garracloon

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Garracloon (school) (Garrycloonagh, Co. Mayo), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher James J. Clarke.
description: Contents -- Old Fairs / Keane, Peter -- Old Fairs / Hennigan, Alacoque -- Devil in Chain Island / Hennigan, James -- Devil on His Shoulder / Brennan, Bridget -- Phantom Funeral / Hennigan, Alocaque -- Strangled Cattle / Hennigan, Alacoque -- Taken by the Fairies / Keane, Mary Kate -- Ghost Story / Keane, Mary -- Dead Woman and the Yarn / Browne, Thomas -- Ghost Sheep / Keane, Peter -- Jealous Stepmother / Healy, Paddy -- Card-Player and the Devil / Browne, Thomas -- Jackson Ghost / Browne, Thomas -- Story of the Penal Days / Hope, Patrick -- Lost in a Fort / Hara, Annie O' -- Recovering Money Lent / Haire, Nora -- Black Pig / Brown, Beatrice -- Ghost Turkey Cocks / Keane, Mary -- Farmer and the Minister / Cawley, Robert -- Outwitting the Highway Men / Cawley, Robert -- Weather-Lore / Keane, Peter -- Phantom Coffin / Healy, Paddy -- Mean Man and the Priest / Cawley, Robert -- Good Fairy / Browne, Tommy -- Enchanted Bull / Browne, Beatrice -- Fairy Horse / Hennigan, Alacoque -- Headless Couple / Hope, Patrick -- Card-Player and the Devil / Hara, Margaret O' -- Fairies of Merrick's Fort / Brennan, Mary Ellen -- Enchanted Calf / Hara, Annie O' -- Seán Óg / Hennigan, James -- Three Princes / Molloy, Thomas -- Cultivation of Potatoes / Keane, Peter -- How the River Deel Was Made / Healy, Paddy -- Tom O'Hara and the Fairies / Molloy, Thomas -- Clever Mary / Molloy, Thomas -- Golden Bird / Gibson, Kathleen -- Enchanted Bull / Keane, Mary -- Three Magic Bottles / Hennigan, James -- Will Couper - The Blacksmith / Molloy, Thomas -- Witch and the Princess / Haire, Nora -- Jack the King's Son / Browne, Thomas -- Peter O'Flaherty and the Fairies / Hennigan, Alacoque -- Big Fairly and Small Fairly / Molloy, Thomas -- Lord Tirawley and the Bull / Hope, Patrick -- Annagh Island / Browne, Thomas -- Annagh Island / Cawley, Robert -- Innisfree Island / Hope, Patrick -- Cloghans Barrack / Browne, Beatrice -- Knockfree Old Mill / Molloy, Thomas -- Cloonbrone Church / Gibson, Kathleen -- Scotchfort Mill / Reilly, Robert -- Scotchfort Mill / Hope, Patrick -- Old Knockfree or Bailenahuirlishe / Molloy, Thomas -- French Men's Grave / Cawby, Robert -- Old Garracloon / Cawley, Robert -- Tobar Cuimmín / Molloy, Thomas -- Garracloon Old School / Cawley, Robert -- Soup-House / Browne, Thomas -- Paul's Garden / Molloy, Thomas -- Carnasock / Molloy, Thomas -- Carramore Hanging Place / Cawley, Robert -- Colonel Jackson and the Fenians / Cawley, Robert -- Carramore Old Road / Browne, Thomas -- Scothford Old School / Cawley, Robert -- Carramore Old School / Browne, Beatrice -- Old Cloontally / Hope, Patrick -- Deelcastle / Molloy, Thomas -- Gallows Hill / Molloy, Thomas -- Cloonyarigaun Townland / Hennigan, Alacoque -- Crannagh Townland / Keane, Peter -- Tom Turnbull / Molloy, Tom -- Father Murphy / Molloy, Tom -- Gortnorabbey Old Abbey - A Story / Healy, Patrick
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.