DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5080332
title: Knockerra (C.), Killimer

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Knockerra (C.), Killimer (school) (Knockerra, Co. Clare), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Eibhlín Ní Cholgain.
description: Old Man's Saying / Culligan, Ellen -- Na Focail atá in Úsáid Fós ag na Daoine -- If a cow is due to calf when the moon is full she will calf at the full tide. -- Marriage Customs -- All the old things I have in my house are, a hook, which is never used, -- The Irish people hate magpies for they say they were never seen in Ireland until Cromwell came over from England. -- Holy Wells / Dea, Peggy O' -- There is a well in James Driscoll's land of Burrane called after St. Imy. / Browne, Bridget -- There was a girl in Quilty and she was going on crutches. / Lillis, Mary -- There lived a man named Cairthinín na Caoirn and he had half of West Clare to himself and there lived an other man named Fuaim na hAirce that had the other half. / Browne, Bridget -- Seán de hÓr's Work / Culligan, Ellen -- The cairthinín lived behind in Quirn. -- Ghost Story -- Uncanny Experience -- Knockerra Flag Quarries -- Historic -- Topographic / Grogan, Maureen -- There were evictions in the townland of Shessive near Cranny. / Browne, Katty -- Long ago their lived in the parish of Killimer a man named Driscoll. -- There is supposed to be a giant's grave on top of Knockerra Hill, in the farm now occupied by Mr Pat O'Shea. -- Stories about Forts / Grogan, Eileen -- My old nurse Mrs Mary Culligan told me that she lived in a house in Granatooha now occupied by Michael Walshe. -- Martie Nolan's sister and another girl in Killimer were in the bog one day. / Power, Mai -- Hidden Treasure / Brien, Mary O' -- Biddy Early - Hidden Treasure / Dea, Peggy O' -- There lived a man whose name was James Mac Mahon. / Browne, Bridget -- Good christians young and old give ear into my scroll... -- Grabber in Granatooha -- Story About a Fort -- Strong Man -- Good Walker / Culligan, E. -- Stories of the Famine Days / Browne, Bridget -- On the 15th day of August in the year of '93 ¶ Heart-rending was the news that spread through this locality -- In the summer of the year of 1893 a crowd of people left Kerry for a day to Kilkee. / Clancy, Mary -- Beautiful Town of Kilrush / Cunningham, Kitty -- County Council Election in Clare in June 1911 as Mentioned in the L.G.B. Blue Book -- Pishogues / Brien, Mary O' -- Riddles / Looney, Nan -- Riddles / Culligan, Kitty -- Riddles / Browne, Bridget -- Mermaid of the Sea / Brown, Mary Ellen -- Once upon a time there lived three boys and their three mother. / Flanagan, Tess -- About a hundred years ago a man in Querrin below Kilkee fell sick and was in danger of death. -- In the penal days when priests could not say Mass in the churches it was necessary for them to say Mass in the open. / Clancy, Mary -- Knockerra N.S. opened on the 1st January 1839. / Clancy, Mary -- St. Senan was coming out from Scattery Island one day after saying mass and he forgot his mass book, -- A man lived in Knockerra named Dan Troy. / Cunningham, Kitty -- An old man named Paddy Noonan lived in Coolminga. -- The first motor cars came to Kilkee on the 15th August 1901. / Culligan, Ellen -- Changeling Story / Power, Mai -- Changeling Story / Culligan, E. -- An old man named Tady Clancy lived in this parish about fifty years ago. / Culligan, Ellen -- There lived in the west of Co Clare a man named Hedderman who had a great stutter. / Cunningham, Kitty -- Improvised Oil Lamp / Culligan, Ellen -- Mushrooms when gathered and cooked by grilling over red-hot griosach had a lovely taste. / Culligan, Ellen -- From the school door and looking west, we can see a cattle shed which was originally a public house and afterwards was used as a church before the present church was built in Knockerra. -- In years gone by a Schooner was passing on the River Shannon near Killimer having for her cargo gold bars. -- Once upon a time there was a women who made a bargain with the devil in order that she could steal butter. -- Story about Biddy Early -- Once their lived in Knockerra a man named Tomín O Brien who was a great athlete and he fought in the Crimian war. / Cunningham, Kitty -- A man named Martin Doyle lived in Dooneil in the parish of Killimer. / Cunningham, Kitty -- Long ago there a man and his wife. / Flanagan, Tess -- Family Names -- The parish of Knockerra and Killimer has no public-house, no bakery, no tailor, no shoe-maker. / Culligan, Ellen -- Stories about Biddy Early / Power, Mai -- Biddy Early -- Biddy Early / Browne, Bridget -- In olden time Knockerra and over as far as / Power, Mai -- Gabha Rua / Flanagan, Tess -- There is a field back in Carrowfree. / Power, Mai -- The people of Doonbeg were going on Sundays to the sea picking seaweed and they would not go to Mass. / Power, Mai -- There was a man in Kilcarrol whose name was Hartney. / Grogan, Maureen -- At the time of the famine the white boys used to come out and tell the people to give the potatoes to anyone who would come for them. -- Down in Vandeleur's wood there is a well dedicated to St Senan an it is particularly noted for a cure for sore eyes. / Power, Mai -- There was a rich man called Studdert living in Clonderalaw one time. / Clancy, Mary -- In olden times St Martin day 11th November nobody used to work but a family of the Brew's who were Protestant's -- We have a field in our farm at Granatooha and for years past in the memory of the eldest inhabitants it used to be ploughed for tillage. -- I know where there is a haunted bush and a most remarkable one. -- Regular Daghdha Mór -- Cure for Telling Lies -- In the famine days there lived a poor man. / Behan, Teresa -- There was a man one time who lived in the parish of Killimer in the townland of Ballymcrinan. / Lillis, Mary -- Mrs Martin Walshe lived in Moyadda, near Kilrush. -- Iarthar Chontae an Chláir -- Mantle So Green -- Young Bessie's Fate -- Tom Trawly walked 27 miles to Spancil Hill with filly. -- Campaigning from Mutton Island for Scully (tenant) Landlord Stacpoole.
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.