DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4613719
title: Cluain Meacan

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Cluain Meacan (school) (Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Liam Ó Catháin.
description: Reilig i gCluain Tiobrad / Dhoghair, Máire Ní -- Currach na Teine -- A man lived in Listowel once and he did not believe in the true religion. / Halpin, Thomas -- I know a man by the name of Jim Twomey and he is the best mower in Dromin. / Halpin, Con -- Another Funny Story / Hegarty, Jack -- Ghost Story / Kennelly, Cahal -- Funny Story / Kennelly, Cahal -- Accident / Kennelly, Cahal -- Up to thirty years ago when the races would be on in the Island in Listowel there would be five or six tents made of rough poles and sacks. / Walsh, Mary -- Hidden Treasure / Kennelly, Martin -- Hidden Treasure / Kennelly, Cathal -- Hidden Treasure / Doyle, Betty -- Hidden Treasure -- Hidden Treasure / Barry, Peg -- Hidden Treasure / Histon, Betty -- Hidden Treasure / Walsh, Mary -- Riddles -- Weather Signs -- Cures -- Local Heroes -- Local Heroes / Kennelly, Cathal -- Local Heroes / Kennelly, Cahal -- Local Heroes / Sullivan, William O -- Local Heroes / Kennelly, Cahal -- Local Heroes / Donegan, Sileen -- Local Heroes / Mahoney, Thomas O -- Local Heroes / Doyle, John -- Local Heroes / Denegan, Eileen -- Marriage Customs / Doyle, John -- Marriage Customs / Doyle, Betty -- Marriage Customs / Sullivan, Kathleen -- Sayings Concerning Marriage -- Births -- Sneezing -- There was an old woman rolled up in a blanket. -- Local Athletes / Sullivan, Kathleen -- Great Artist / Denegan, Eileen -- Games -- Games we play at school / Shanahan, Mary -- Famous Heroes -- Tralling Folk -- Proverbs -- Homemade Toys / Sullivan, Kathleen O -- We get rushes and make chairs out of them. -- Travelling Folk / Costello, Nicholas -- Fairy Forts / Halpin, Con -- Fairy Forts / Healy, Pat -- Story / Mahony, Tom -- Fairy Forts -- Fairy Forts -- Fairy Forts -- Fairy Forts -- Old Schools / Shanahan, John -- Old Schools -- Old Schools -- Old Schools -- Local Place Names -- Local Place Names -- Local Place Names -- Local Place Names -- Local Place Names -- Local Place Names -- Local Place Names -- On one occasion Blakeney Kitchener had no one living with him but a servant girl. -- Holy Wells -- Holy Wells -- Old Houses -- Penal Days -- Penal Days -- Penal Days -- Penal Days -- Fairy Story -- Funny Story -- It is said that an old witch lived in Bedford long ago. -- Lore of Certain Days -- Long ago a man by the name of Martin Kennelly was coming was coming home from town one night. -- Local Roads -- Long ago there were gentlemen in North Kerry who used to keep greyhounds for hunting at this time hares were very scarce there was a little boy living with his mother at the edge of a mountain. -- Story -- Story -- Stories of Leprechauns and Witches -- Stories of Leprechauns and Witches -- Stories of Leprechauns and Witches -- Stories of Leprechauns and Witches -- Famine -- Famine -- Famine -- One night there was a man coming from a dance about twelve o' clock. -- Long ago there was a chief in Ireland, and he owned an estate in Ireland. -- Bird-Lore -- There was a man named Hayes working at Bill Connor's and he cut down trees out of the fort and every morning they used see a cow dead at a gap near the fort. -- Once upon a time a landlord lived in Derry -- Land Agitation -- Saint Stephen's day falls on the 26th of December every year. -- Once upon a time a piper lived in Clountubrid, all the people used give him food, and let him stay at their house during the winter. -- Long ago there was a man and it used be said he had witch-craft. -- Long ago there lived a man and they used to call him Jack the Ghost killer he was he was a brave man and he used not be afraid of any fairies. -- Long ago there was a great lot of witchcraft in the people. -- Long ago about sixty years ago there was a man by the name of Gorgie Sands living in Newtown. -- At one time there was a ghost haunting an old building and if anybody come near the ghost would appear and the people used fly in terror. -- Long ago there were two farming women living in a townland. / Keane, John -- Once there was a man named Jack the spirit killer. -- Not long ago a little girl was going home from school on May Eve. -- One night a man was coming home from a wake. -- Long ago there was a man named Michael Driscoll who was a workman of old Raymonds in Dromin about a mile from Listowel. -- Long ago there was a girl going to school through through the fields. -- Long ago there was a very cruel king in Ireland. -- There was a man coming up Dromin one night and he heard a cry and terrible noise in the wood... -- There was once a priest; that lived in Kilbaha. -- Once upon a time there was an old woman who very ill and was in danger of death. -- Long ago there was a great lot of Witch craft, and the old people used to call it pishoges. -- In olden times during the winter months it was a great practice for men to go out at night torching for birds while they were asleep in the hedges. -- There is a fort in this neighbourhood which was famous some years ago for events taking place in it. -- A man named Dillon was returning from Listowel one night. -- Long ago in the bad times there was a lady in Listowel named Mrs Sheaver. -- Two boys went hunting rabbits one night. -- There was a woman and her son living in a cottage and they were very poor. -- Once upon a time there lived a man in Dirra and his name was Mc Connor and he was all devilment. -- At a certain cross road every night a woman used be dressed in white and used be seen. -- Once upon a time there was a servant girl in a farmer's house. -- Strange Animals -- Once upon a time a man was coming home from a gambling house. -- One day a man went to Banna strand near Tralee for a load of sand. -- I live in Clounmacon, three miles outside Listowel. -- About a hundred years ago there lived about two miles beyond. / Barry, Kitty -- Long ago a man by the name of Jim Doyle was coming home from mowing in Bonk's field near Raymonds in Dromin. / Twomey, Criss -- Long ago a man by the name of Thomas Daly was cutting hay in a meadow near Caherdown. / Barry, Peg -- Over 200 years ago it being about the penal times there lived a Catholic family about a mile outside Dublin. / Barry, Peg -- Once upon a time a man named Martin Beggins lived in a poor derelict place. / Barry, Peg
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.