DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4742038
title: Crosspatrick, Johnstown

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Crosspatrick, Johnstown (school) (Crosspatrick, Co. Kilkenny), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher P. Ó Foghlú.
description: Moat of Ráth / Phelan, Mary / Phelan, Ellen -- William Russell / Phelan, Mary -- Stephen Russell's Ass / Grady, Margaret -- Song by Kieran Breedac / Grady, Margaret -- Cnoc Seanrátha / Norton, Annie -- Kilkenny Hurlers / Grady, Margaret -- Erin go Bragh / Grady, Margaret -- Rhyme about a Herring / Phelan, Mary -- Rhyme about Kieran Mc Bride / Phelan, Mary -- Rhyme about a Spade / Phelan, Mary -- Praise of Galmoy by Kieran McBride -- Eolas na hÁite - St Michael's Well / Grady, Margaret -- Scoileanna Scairte -- Story of Rath / Grady, James -- Hedge-School / Grady, Margaret -- Mat Davis taught in a school in [...]. There was another hedge school in Clonsaul. / Phelan, Mary -- Story / Dollard, William -- Story / Dollard, Billy -- There was a tree where the pump is now. / Dollard, Billy -- Story of Bayswell / Grady, M. -- Long ago there used to be a pattern in Cork on Michaelmas Day. / Grady, M. -- One day there was a fair in Bawn and a fight rose between the Bayswell men and another crowd. / Grady, M. -- There used a dead woman named Petticoat Lucy haunt Fertagh trying to hard the people. / Grady, M. -- Riddles / Grady, M. -- Riddles / Phelan, Mary -- Riddles / Foley, Mauraid -- Riddles / Grady, Margaret -- Customs / Grady, Margaret -- Customs -- Praise of Galmoy -- Scéal na hÁite / Grady, M. -- There was a bad landlord named Ellis near Templetuohy. A man named Gleeson shot him. / Grady, M. -- Maram was a landlord who was shot on hill of Cnoo-sean-rátha on his horse. / Phelan, Bridget -- Eviction / Phelan, Bridget -- There was a man in County Kilkenny who was a Catholic and he turned Protestant and married. / Grady, M. -- A man named Cody lived in Kavanagh's Castle. / Grady, M. -- There was a landlord named Keating who lived in Woodsgift. He evicted all the Graine tenants. / Grady, M. -- Scéalta Spioraid / Norton, N. -- In olden times the fairies used to carry off people. They carried off a lovely girl. / Grady, M. -- One night a man was coming home across a bog. He lost his way and fell into a bog hole and was drowned. / Grady, M. -- There was a man by the name of Laurence in Bawnmore and during the Battle of the Boyne he lost his head. / Phelan, Mary -- One evening when Tom Corcoran came home from school he went out on Tobin's Hill to hurl. / Holohan, Mary -- There was a rath in the Islands and there were fairies living in it. / Foley, Mauraid -- There was a man going to be hung one time and the executioner told him that he would give him three days to make up a riddle that none of the Guards would guess. / Holohan, Mary -- There was once a priest in Urlingford and he kept a servant boy. / Holohan, Mauraid -- Some time ago a man and a woman went out to bind, the woman had her child with her a baby girl. / Foley, Mauraid -- Years ago the headless coach used to pass up by our house about 12 o' clock. / Foley, Mauraid -- Long ago people used to go off in trances and other people used to think they were dead. / Foley, M. M. -- There was a minister living in Johnstown and he was very poor. / Holohan, Mary -- In some part of Tipperary there was a house where the neighbours always went to play cards in the night time. / Holohan, Mary -- Tom Corcoran went out on Tobins Hill one day. He had asthma and he went out to get a breath of fresh air. / Holohan, Mary -- There lived in Crosspatrick some years ago a man named Joe Brennan and one night when he was in bed he was wakened with three knocks on the mantlepiece but he did not mind he heard it again and he did not mind it, but when he heard it the third time he got up and dressed himself. / Brennan, Martin -- Most people say Whitford is haunted. Some time ago there was a ghost seen in it. / Norton, Nancy -- Once upon a time there was two boys a Protestant and a Catholic. They were great pals. / Norton, Nancy -- Once upon a time a man had two horses and one of them took a disease and at that time a fairy-woman living in Freshford, who knew the cure for every disease and the man said he would go to her. So he saddled the horse that was not sick and went to the Fairywoman. / Norton, N. -- When my mother was going with my father. He went to Ballybrophy for some things. / Foley, M. -- Once upon a time there was a man going to the fair of Portumna from Johnstown. / Holohan, Mary -- Once upon a time a woman died and her knees were cocking up in the bed as she could not straighten them and when the people were laying her out they had to put a stone on her legs to straighten them. / Norton, N. -- There was a tree in the County Tipperary and a voice used to be heard saying "Cá raghainn?" when someone was passing. / Grady, M. -- There was a woman living in Fertagh and she was fond of stealing. / Grady, M. -- One night two men were coming home from playing cards and when they came to a stile between Collard's and Phelan's fields they heard a noise behind them and looking around they saw a roll of black wool following them. / Norton, Nancy -- One night a man was coming through Bowe's fields and when he came to the middle field there was a stile in the corner and he got over it. / Norton, N. -- One upon a time two men were having a private chat in a room and they had the door locked in order that none would interfere as there was a man in the house who was always trying to listen to other people's conversations. / Norton, N. -- There is a boot of gold lost in Kavanagh's field in a pond beside the castle. / Norton, Nancy -- Once upon a time a man living in Kilkenny dreamt he found money in the cave in Donaghmore. / Norton, N. -- Three girls from Cross Patrick were in Johnstown getting suits of clothes for their brothers. / Foley, M. -- One night John Connell and Jimmy Connell were going home after playing cards and it was about one o' clock. / Norton, N. -- One night Tommie Costelloe and Jackie Leahy were coming home from Crosspatrick and it was about twelve o' clock. / Norton, N. -- Years agos there lived in parish of Thurles a friar, and the people called him "Báirin Ruadh". / Brennan, Angela -- Once upon a time there lived a man named Jimmy Doheny. / Connell, Biddy -- Song on the Burial of William Russell -- Folklore
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.