DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4493747
title: Carrowreagh

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Carrowreagh (school) (Carrowreagh, Co. Donegal), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Annie Davidson.
description: Grianán of Aileach / Scott, Samuel -- Riddles / Dowell, Robert Mc -- Thatching / Moore, David -- Thatching / Quigley, Annie -- Tools and Materials Used in Thatching -- Fairies / Quigley, Annie -- Fairies / Peoples, Joan -- Fairies / Dowell, Bella Mc -- How to Prepare a Field for Potatoes / Peoples, Joan -- Names of Former Teachers of Carrowreagh -- Carrowreagh Old School -- Other Clergymen in Connection with the School -- Hills of Donegal -- Games - See-Saw / Dowell, Robert Mc -- How to Cure Mumps -- How to Cure Whooping-Cough / Dowell, Bella Mc -- Games - Duck / Beattie, Willie -- Games - Hide and Go Seek / Foster, Anna -- Games - Tig / Dowell, Robert Mc -- Games - Cap Ball / Peoples, Joan -- Games - Playing Jacks / Peoples, Joan -- Games - Weigh the Butter and Sell the Cheese / Robinson, Sarah -- Bird-Lore / Foster, Anna -- Birds / Beattie, Willie -- Games - See-Saw / Beattie, Willie -- Games - Weigh the Butter and Sell the Cheese / Gowan, Jillie Mc -- Churning / Quigley, Annie -- Plunge Churn, Staff and Butter Print -- Wooden Piggin -- Churning / Robinson, Sarah -- Travelling Folk / Peoples, Joan -- Travelling Folk / Gowan, Jillie Mc -- Peat Spade -- Cutting Turf / Robinson, Sarah -- Rough Drawing of Turf Spade -- Cutting Turf / Peoples, Joan -- Large Stone Wheel Used in Olden Times for Rolling Flax -- Rolling Flax in Olden Times / Peoples, Joan -- Homemade Toys / Beattie, Willie -- Spinning Jenny / Beattie, Willie -- Boat / Moore, Sam -- Homemade Toys / Peoples, Joan -- Golliwog / Peoples, Joan -- Homemade Toys / Beattie, Fanny Ann -- Irish Spinning Wheel Belonging to Mr Campbell Peoples / Davison, Anna -- Fairy Story -- Proverbs / Peoples, Joan -- Proverbs / Foster, Anna -- Proverbs / Robinson, Sarah -- Proverbs / Beattie, Fanny Ann -- Secret Hoards - Elizabethan Coins Found in a Quarry / Davison, Annie -- Old Houses / Peoples, Joan -- Old Houses / Foster, Anna -- Fairy Stories (Local) -- Local Fairy Tale -- Christmas Rhymes / Quigley, Annie -- Fairy Story / Canning, Sarah Ann -- Antiquities -- Care of the Feet / Dowell, Robert Mc -- Burt Presbyterian Church / Davison, A. -- Local Cures / Peoples, Joan -- Care of the Feet / Peoples, Joan -- Local Cures / Foster, Anna -- Local Cures / Dowell, Bella Mc -- Holy Wells / Peoples, Joan -- Herbs (Additional Cures) -- Cure for Cancer / Davison, A. -- Additional Local Cures -- Additional Local Cures -- Additional Local Cures -- Additional Local Cures -- Additional Local Cures -- My Home District -- Song - A Boat Sunk Off Tory Island / Davison, Annie -- Lore of Certain Days -- Local Marriage Customs -- Local Marriage Customs / Davison, A. -- Severe Weather -- Severe Weather -- Quern -- Bread -- Grid-Iron for Baking Oatcake / Peoples, Joan -- Local Heroes - The Giant's Throw / Quigley, Annie -- Bread - Boxty Bread -- Boxty Bread -- Bread - Oatmeal Fadge or Oaten Fadge -- Farm Implements Used before the Introduction of Machinery / Moore, Sam -- Food in Olden Times / Peoples, Joan -- Food in Olden Times / Quigley, Annie -- Care of Farm Animals / Beattie, Willie -- Local Happenings - The Ship Tayleur -- Local Happenings - Shipwrecks -- Old Graveyards / Davison, A. -- Rachel's Fate / Quigley, Annie -- Yarrow / Robinson, Sarah -- Local Poets / Walker, Miss Alice
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.