DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4758538
title: St Patricks Convent, Kilkenny

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from St Patricks Convent, Kilkenny (school) (Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Sr. M. Dominic.
description: Folklore - Riddles / Hackett, Maureen -- Churning -- Fairy Forts -- Local Marriage Customs / Howard, Ella -- St Fiachra's Well -- Local Ruin -- Song -- Hurling Song -- Food in Olden Times / Howard, Ella -- Herbs / Howard, Ella -- Caves of Dunmore / Hackett, Maureen -- Old Story / Howard, Ella -- Traitor in the Camp / Neill, Kitty O' -- Cures -- Weather Signs / Butler, Judy -- Kenny's Well -- Local Heroes / Phelan, Kitty -- Local Fair -- Local Hurling Match -- Ghost Story -- Cromwell's Effort to Take Down the Cross -- Old Houses -- Palace Laden -- Farm Animals / Neill, Kitty O' -- Rhyme / Neill, Kitty O' -- Old Story / Phelan, Katty -- Butt's Cross / Meade, Nancy -- Graveyard / Meade, Nancy -- Irish Prayer / Meade, Nancy -- Mc Bride's Forge / Davin, Mary -- Beliefs / Doyle, Kathleen -- Story -- Jerpoint Abbey / Phelan, Katty -- Parliament House -- Religious Story / Hackett, Maureen -- Proverbs -- Collection of Prayers / Cabe, Josie Mc -- Prayer when Rising - An Aspiration / Cabe, Josie Mc -- St Stephen's Day / Phelan, Katty -- Verse about Kilkenny / Phelan, Katty -- Ancient Abbeys -- Religious Story / Davin, Mary -- Superstitious Beliefs / Meade, Nancy -- I Lie down with God / Meade, Nancy -- Village / Meade, Nancy -- Homemade Toys / Meade, Nancy -- Local Happenings / Cabe, Josie Mc -- Evans' Effort to Shoot Cromwell -- St Fiachra / Davin, Mary -- Lady's Well / Davin, Mary -- Story -- Clothes Made Locally -- Market Cross / Brannigan, Maureen -- River Dinan / Hackett, Maureen -- Raths / Hackett, Maureen -- St John's Priory -- Gallows Hill / Davin, Mary -- Oldest House in Town / Howard, Ella -- Local Poets -- My Own Locality / Howard, Ella -- Superstitions / Neill, Kitty O' -- Sandpit / Hackett, Maureen -- Fireside Story / Howard, Ella -- Ancient Graveyard / Howard, Ella -- Lacken Mills / Neill, Kitty O' -- Canal Walk / Howard, Ella -- Ormonde Woollen Mills / Hackett, Maureen -- Marble Mills / Branigan, Maureen -- Boot Factory / Howard, Ella -- Creamery / Brannigan, Maureen -- St John's Abbey / Howard, Ella -- Barrow Starch Works / Howard, Ella -- Kilkenny College / Neill, Kitty O' -- Bennet's Bridge / Brannigan, Maureen -- Kilkenny's Ancient Roadways / Neill, Kitty O' -- Saint Francis Abbey / Neill, Kitty O' -- Clothes Made Locally / Howard, Ella -- Funny Story / Howard, Ella -- Travelling Folk -- Leprechaun / Howard, Ella -- Maiden Sod / Davin, Mary -- How Carrickshock Got Its Name / Davin, Mary -- Old Schools / Howard, Ella -- Weather-Lore / Howard, Ella -- Market Day in Kilkenny / Davin, Mary -- Old Inns of Kilkenny -- Kells Priory / Davin, Mary -- Old Hurling Match / Davin, Mary -- Severe Storm / Howard, Ella -- Proverbs / Davin, Mary -- Fireside Story -- Cromwell in Kilkenny / Neill, Kitty O' -- Ancient Churches / Neill, Kitty O' -- Butts Green / Neill, Kitty O' -- Kilkenny's Walls / Neill, Kitty O' -- Festival Customs -- Bread / Howard, Ella -- Riddles / Howard, Ella -- Riddles / Cabe, Josie Mc -- St Kieran's College / Reade, Bridie -- Our Homes -- Norbert -- Benefits of Travel -- Reading -- Flowers -- Local Cures / Howard, Ella -- Hidden Treasure / Howard, Ella -- Games I Play / Howard, Ella
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.