DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4613711
title: Cill Beathach

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Cill Beathach (school) (Kilbaha Middle, Co. Kerry), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Tomás Ó Ceallacháin.
description: One night a man near Abbeyfeale was dying. / Shine, Nora -- Long ago a man was going home from a neighbours house and when he was crossing a ditch a man put out his hand and the man said "Fág an áit sin"... / Shine, Eileen -- Garret Stack went to confession Christmas Eve and he was to go to communion Christmas morning and the clock stopped during the night... / Shine, Cornelius -- One evening Dan Stack went into Newtown for flour with an ass and car. / Kennelly, Patrick -- In some parish long ago a priest died and the bell was heard ringing a few nights after by the clerk. / Hanrahan, Denis -- There is a well in Knockanure belonging to the Carrols and Mr Carrol dreamt that there was gold in a piece of ground coming out over the well. / Vaughan, John -- One day below in Mick Hanrahan's field there was a hurling match and a lorgadán came out of the ditch with a hurley... / Kennelly, Patrick -- A great storm blew over this locality in the month of February 1893 -- There is a Conucaan in Mrs Ahern's place in Dirreen... / Carthy, John Mc -- There was a blessed well in Jim Woulfe's field and one day they washed clothes in it and that night the well changed out to Tom O'Connor field which was two fields away. / Shine, Eileen -- There is a fort in Direen and one day Jack Shine and some others went digging it. / Kennelly, Bridget -- There is a cnocán in Ned Ahearn's field in Direen. / Kennelly, Bridget -- People usually get married during Lent. / Kennelly, Bridget -- There was a blessed well in Jim Barrett's field and people washed clothes at the mouth of it and one day a bird came... / Shine, Nora -- Poll na portaigh ¶ Gort na quille... / Shine, Cornelius -- My grandmother used make candles out of the fat of cows. / Shine, Nora -- During shrove people generally get married. / Shine, Nora -- The square meadow ¶ The garden field... / Shine, Nora -- Poll buí ¶ Poll dubh... / Shine, Nora -- Stephen Kennelly, Leitrim, used to make baskets for carrying eggs and holding potatoes. / Shine, Eileen -- People generally get married during Shrove. / Shine, Eileen -- There was a forth in Michael Sullivan's field and about seven years ago Con cut it down. / Kennelly, Patrick -- A great snow storm occurred in the year 1893, in the month of February. / Kennelly, Patrick -- A great storm blew over this district in the month of October 1882. / Kennelly, Patrick -- If a person having the chin cough drank the leavings of a ferret's milk, he would be cured. / Kennelly, Bridget -- Falling soot is a sign of rain. / Kennelly, Bridget -- A great snow storm occurred about forty five years ago on the eleventh of February. / Kennelly, Bridget -- The longer you live the more you see. / Kennelly, Bridget -- Michael Shine in Direen used make nails, he is dead about thirty years. / Kennelly, Bridget -- Mr Hudson was the landlord over Upper Kilbaha and George Kitchenor was the landlord over lower Kilbaha. / Kennelly, Bridget -- There was a house in Timmy Buckley's meadow and Mr Garvey was the name of the man that was living in it. / Kennelly, Bridget -- People say that it is unlucky to pick flowers or throw out the ashes on May day. / Kennelly, Bridget -- A great storm blew over this this district on the month of February 1907. / Shine, Eileen -- 'Tis better be sure than sorry. / Shine, Eileen -- If a robin came into the house. / Shine, Eileen -- Black-tea if rubbed to sore eyes, would cure them. / Shine, Eileen -- Necessity is the mother of invention. / Kennelly, Patrick -- It is said that Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays are unlucky days to get married. / Kennelly, Patrick -- Swallows when flying high are a sign of good weather. / Shine, Cornelius -- The cure for a toothache is a piece of cloth when burned and inhale it up your nose. / Shine, Cornelius -- A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. / Shine, Cornelius -- About a hundred years ago there lived a man by the name of Casey. / Vaughan, Eileen -- There was a girl going for her milk in the evening. / Vaughan, Eileen -- The following are the names of our cows. / Kennelly, Bridget -- Tinkers we generally call the travellers that go around from house to house in our district. / Shine, Eileen -- Long ago there lived a man whose name was Julian in a plot of ground now owned by James Shine. / Shine, Eileen -- The place where unbaptised children are buried in Murhur Churchyard is at the right hand side of the yard. / Shine, Eileen -- People often swap and sometimes one gives the other boot. / Shine, Eileen -- The following are names for money. / Kennelly, Bridget -- The name of our home district is Kilbaha. / Kennelly, Bridget -- Each year in the winter time some of the potato crop is selected and stored for the coming year to plant. / Kennelly, Bridget -- Old Sayings / Carthy, John Mc -- Old Crafts / Carthy, John Mc -- In planting bawn, ridges have to be made. / Carthy, John Mc -- There are many travellers in this locality and there is welcome for them always. / Carthy, John Mc -- Names for Money / Carthy, John Mc -- The well known birds in this locality are: the crow, magpie... / Carthy, John Mc -- Games / Carthy, John Mc -- The following are the names of wild birds: The wren, the cuckoo... / Kennelly, Bridget -- The cuckoo comes to this country about the end of July. / Kennelly, Bridget -- There was a head-school in Kilbaha and another in Shreahan. / Shine, Nora -- The following is a list of wild birds. / Shine, Nora -- Games / Kennelly, Patrick -- Kilbaha is located in the North-East of Kerry. / Kennelly, Patrick -- Very seldom travellers stay in this district, but they often come around begging food and clothes. / Kennelly, Patrick -- Very often in this locality farmers plant their potatoes in ridges. / Kennelly, Patrick -- The west field. The rick field... / Kennelly, Patrick -- Very often potatoes are sown in drills. / Shine, Cornelius -- Tinkers are the names of travellers that go around this locality. / Shine, Cornelius -- There are 91 people and 14 servants in our district. / Shine, Cornelius -- There was a fair about once a forthnight long ago in Listowel. / Shine, Cornelius -- The following are our games for past-time: playing marbles, in Spring... / Shine, Cornelius -- The commoniest names of the birds are: blackbird... / Shine, Cornelius -- About a hundred years ago there was a hedge school in lower Dirreen. / Vaughan, Eileen -- Long ago there lived a Couple whose names were Mary and John. / Kearney, Eileen -- Some time ago there lived a boy whose name was Dick Whittington. / Kearney, Eileen -- A great storm blew over this district in the year 1907 in the month of February. / Kearney, Eileen -- There was once a woman coming back from the other life. / Ahern, John -- There was a man by the name of Patrick Brooderick, he built his house on a mass path. / Liston, Willie -- People generally do not get married during the month of May, August, September and October, for these are unlucky times during the year for marrying. / Kearney, Eileen -- There is a blessed well in Wolf's field. / Kearney, Eileen -- The travellers always come begging before a big fair. / Vaughan, Eileen -- There were two shops in all Newtown long ago. / Shine, Michael -- When the day for planting the potatoes come we generally have a number of the neighbours. / Enery, William Mc -- In this district Travellers are called tinkers. / Enery, William Mc -- The commonest of the birds around this district are, the black bird, the thrush... / Hudson, William -- In this district travellers are called tinkers.
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.