DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5008912
title: Johnstown

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Johnstown (school) (Johnstown, Co. Meath), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Miss H.C. Hickie.
description: Raheen -- Buried Treasure -- 12th Night Custom -- Making Rush Lights -- Lore of Certain Days -- Weather-Lore -- Snow-Storms -- Local Marriage Customs / Hickie, H. C. -- Local Cures -- Brick making was carried on in Oldtown by a man named Thoams Harpur. -- Story of this brickyard... / Hickie, H. C. -- Festival Customs -- Riddles Heard Locally / Nally, Stephen Mc -- Riddles Heard Locally / Byrne, Peadar -- Riddles / Husband, Mamie -- Riddles / Briody, B. -- Riddles / Boylan, Leo -- Riddles / Boylan, Ciaran -- Riddles and Local Proverbs -- Crafts - Doll-Making / Brien, Mary -- Crafts - Spinning and Weaving -- Forge -- Churchyards, Funeral Customs etc. -- Back View of a Tombstone -- Funeral Customs / Hickie, H. C. -- Wedding Custom -- Stations or Mass Celebrated in Private Houses -- Church Avenue / Hickie, H. C. -- Food in Olden Times -- Famine Times -- Johnstown Village in 1886 -- Stone at the Quarry -- Stray Sod -- Hungry Sod -- Cures -- Cures -- Rich Farmers around Oldtown and Kilcairne employed 50 labourers for harvesting. / Neill, James -- Speaking of the Connacnt harvesters... -- Further Stories of the Raheen -- Halloween Custom -- How We Churn / Brien, Mary -- Our Fields / Briody, Bridget -- Pancake Night / Boylan, Leo -- Buried Treasure / Husband, Mary -- Ghost Story / Husband, Mary -- My Lucky Caul / Husband, Mary -- Strange Legend of Rossnaree -- Tea -- Staffordstown -- Chapel Field -- Found Patrick (Pasie) at 5 on an April afternoon putting in the cattle. -- Secret Societies -- Fairies -- Stones -- Family Curse -- Skulls -- Ghosts -- Buried Treasure in Staffordstown -- Wages -- More Ghosts -- More Reminiscences of Mrs Kelly -- Local Superstitions -- Crafts -- Churning -- Mrs Fitzpatrick's Account of Harvesters and Their Food -- Churning -- Severe Weather -- Halloween Tricks -- Halloween Tricks -- Story of Gerrardstown Castle -- Story by Mrs Garrett Reilly -- Cures -- Hidden Treasure in the Raheen or Moat of Kilcarn -- Crosses -- Bonfires -- Bird-Lore -- Oak for a Soak -- Teeth Extraction -- Cures -- Story of St Patrick -- Story of Daniel O'Connell -- Hidden Treasure and Vengeance of the Fairies -- Cure for Heart Disease / Hickie, H. C. -- Interviewed Mrs Lynch and found she is the possession of some interesting relics of the past. / Hickie, H. C. -- Black Church Field -- Furzy Field -- Collected from Mrs John Lynch -- Survival of Paganism -- Ghosts -- Story of a Murderer and Suicide -- Food -- Wakes -- Another native of the Old Road named Cullen... -- Park Murders -- Martin Reilly Mrs Reilly's son says there is a tombstone in Newtown cemetery near Trim which cures warts. -- Mrs Neill wife of Tome Neill Oldtown Navan has also told me about this monument in Newtown cemetery. -- Taking the Butter -- Story of a Priest -- St John's Well Warrenstown -- Dan O'Connell and the Little Boy -- Isn't this a Good Story -- Banshee -- Riddles -- Weather Signs -- Holy Well, Slane -- Stories of the Famine -- Collected from Tom Neill. -- Marriages -- Unlucky Day - Whit Monday -- Cure - Heart Disease -- Churning -- Old Prayers
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.