DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4541001
title: Dristeran

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Dristeran (school) (Dristernan, Co. Donegal), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Séamus Ó Cnaimhsighe.
description: Folklore / Lynch, Maud -- Folklore / Carron, Lily Mc -- One Sunday afternoon two girls from Ballyhassy went to Redford shore to bathe. / Carron, Lily Mc -- Folklore / Carron, Lily Mc -- Folklore / Cummings, Mary -- Folklore / Cummings, Mary -- Folklore / Cummings, Christina -- St Buadan's Bell / Doherty, Brian -- Folklore / Doherty, Brian -- Folklore / Doherty, Brian -- Folklore / Doherty, Brian -- Folklore / Harkin, Annie -- There was a monastery at Carrowmore in the parish of Culdaff. / Harkin, Kathleen -- Folklore / Gibson, Elsie -- Folklore / Gibson, Elsie -- Folklore / Doherty, Mary -- Folklore / Gibson, Honor -- Folklore / Harkin, Kathleen -- Folklore / Gibson, Honor -- Folklore / Doherty, Frances -- Folklore / Harkin, Kathleen -- Folklore / Doherty, Francis -- Folklore / Harkin, Kathleen -- Folklore / Doherty, Frances -- Folklore / Doherty, Frances -- Folklore / Gibson, Elsie -- Folklore -- Gleneely / Gibson, Elsie -- Once upon a time two men were cutting turf in Crucknanoinin. -- Once upon a time there was a man who lived in Culdaff. -- Potatoes -- One time John Farren was going to Carn with a cow. -- There is a farm near our school called Grousehall. / Cummings, Mary -- There is a very strange looking rowan tree growing a couple of fields away on the same farm near (Grousehall). / Cummings, Mary -- Near my home is a holly tree. / Cummings, Mary -- The neighbours around my home tell of a very strong man called Dan Farren who used to live here. / Cummings, Mary -- Big Paddy of whom I wrote last week firmly believes in fairies. / Cummings, Mary -- There is a little lough above my house called Caillebreig. / Cummings, Mary -- There is a neighbour's house near me. / Cummings, Mary -- About a hundred years ago there lived a lovely girl in Malin. -- Shot by the Fairies / Harkin, Kathleen -- Old Customs -- There was a house in Moneydarragh in which a woman lived alone. / Long, Veronica -- About 56 years ago Neil Mc Colgan's father (Neil lives here) was building a house. / Cummings, Mary -- About the first quarter of the nineteenth century there was a hedge school in this district. / Gibson, Elsie -- My grandfather also named George Mc Candless was ploughing in a field along the road. / Gibson, Elsie -- Haunted Room / Kenna, Patrick Mc -- Cheap Hat / Kenna, Patrick Mc -- Druids' Circle / Kenna, Patrick Mc -- Power of a Priest / Kenna, Patrick Mc -- James's Well / Kenna, Patrick -- Monk's Rock / Kenna, Patrick Mc -- Local Poets / Kenna, Patrick Mc -- One night as a priest was on a sickcall in the parish of Culdaff he met three children coming towards him - two of them had lights in their hands, but the other had not. / Kenna, Patrick Mc -- Folklore / Harkin, Kathleen -- Loss of the Cambria / Doherty, Mary
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.