cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780064
title: One day long ago two men went to cut meadow with scythes. They cut away for a while until they came to a weasel's nest where there were four young weasels...

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant James Gormley.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780070
title: Once there lived a man named Michael James in Roscommon. He was in great need of money, as he had a big family to rear...

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant Lynda Shannon.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780075
title: Once two men went away to look for work. They walked until their shoes were worn to the uppers, and they were very hungary but could find no work...

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant Thomas Dowd.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780078
title: There are two stories of friars which I heard from a very old man since deceased.

description: Story collected by a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) from informant J. Mc Keon.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780082
title: Once two men went over to England in search of work. They got no work the first day and the night fell on them, they had no place to sleep...

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant Brian Dowd.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780091
title: There were ruins of monasteries at Lahask and Roinn na Ruaige up to recent times but the stones have been removed to make road material etc.

description: Story collected by a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) from informant P. Cunane.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780093
title: Once a boy fell in with two robbers. Now there lived near those robbers a man who was very rich...

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant Lynda Shannon.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780099
title: Danes Butter in little casks perfectly preserved has been found in recent years at Carrigeen about two miles from here.

description: Story collected by a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) from informant A. Mc Keon.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780104
title: Many people believe in pistrogues as they are called locally.

description: Story collected by a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) from informant M. Mc Glynn.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780106
title: A number of years ago an old witch that was called Jenny of the Hills, lived on one of the Cregga hills in the parish of Kiltrustan in the Co Roscommon...

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant Laurence Shannon.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780108
title: Once upon a time there lived a robber in the parish of Kiltrustan in the Co Roscommon named Pat O Hare...

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant Laurance Shannon.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780112
title: Once there lived a woman in Carrowkeel named Biddy Elwood in the parish of Creeve in the Co Roscommon who had a lot of butter...

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant James Gormley.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780116
title: List of Irish Place Names

description: Story collected by Sal Devany, a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780121
title: Crafts

description: Story collected by Annie Kelly, a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780131
title: Once there lived a man and his wife in Clooneybrennan in the parish of Elphin in the Co Roscommon who had a good many cows and supplied a good many people in the town with butter...

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant Michael Gormley.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780135
title: Cure

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant James Gormley.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780142
title: Wake and Funeral Customs

description: Story collected by a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) from informant M. Mc Glynn.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780147
title: Wake

description: Story collected by a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) from informant M. Mc Glynn.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780151
title: Wake Games

description: Story collected by a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780159
title: Fat Hen

description: Story collected by a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) from informant M. Mc Glynn.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780163
title: Cure of a Mad Dog's Bite

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant Martin Kearns.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780165
title: Traditional School Games

description: Story collected by a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780166
title: Traditional School Games - Jack Stones

description: Story collected by a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780167
title: Lone Bush

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant Martin Kearns.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780177
title: Once there were hunters hunting on the Creeve hills in the Co Roscommon. All the dogs ran after a hare...

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant James Mc Glynn.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780178
title: Fairies

description: Story collected by a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) from informant Frank Rushe.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780184
title: Once a caretaker of a Protestant Church tied a goat in the Church. He went and told the parson that the devil was in the Church...

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant Thomas Dowd.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780185
title: Black Pullet's Egg

description: Story collected by a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780187
title: Melting Lead and Alum

description: Story collected by a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780188
title: Well

description: Story collected by a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780193
title: One night a man named Thomas Dowd of Cummeen Elphin in the Co Roscommon was coming home from a dance. It was very late and he had to go through the fields...

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant Thomas Dowd.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780197
title: November's night was especially connected with movements of the fairies.

description: Story collected by a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) from informant F. Mc Glynn.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780200
title: Once upon James Gormley of Cummeen Elphin in the Co Roscommon dreamed of a hidden treasure. The treasure was supposed to be a pot of gold...

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant James Gormley.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780202
title: A number of years ago just after Frank Mc Govern setting up in Creeve in Co Roscommon. He had the shop stocked with everything that could be in a shop...

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant Martin Kearns.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780205
title: One day James Mac Glynn was turning a heap of potatoes in his garden at Creeve in the Co Roscommon...

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant James Gormley.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780208
title: Once I heard of a funny trick that happened at a dance. There was a fellow named John Mac Gowan who the ladies didn't like at dances...

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant John Bierne.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780213
title: Once upon a time there lived a woman named Bridget Dowd in Cummeen in the Co Roscommon...

description: Story collected by James Gormley, a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant Brian Dowd.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780214
title: St Martin's Eve

description: Story collected by a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780216
title: Mary Bushes

description: Story collected by a student at Cluain Uí Chuinn school (Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Mac Floinn.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780219
title: There was once a man named Peter Diffley of Tanseyfield in the Co Roscommon. One night he was going home from rambling he saw a strange dog at Clonnahee gatehouse...

description: Story collected by a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) from informant Laurance Shannon.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780222
title: Hidden Treasure

description: Story collected by a student at Drummullan school (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
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.