DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4602718
title: Dubhthrian (Diffreen)

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Dubhthrian (Diffreen) (school) (Diffreen, Co. Leitrim), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher #missing.
description: During the Penal Days there was a very cruel enemy of the Catholics living in Manorhamilton. -- Sir Frederick Hamilton and his men of Manorhamilton went to play havoc and slaughter among the people of Sligo one day. -- Years ago there was a spring well outside of Sligo -- Long ago there was a man and his son living at the back of Benbo, a mountain overlooking Glencar. -- There is a cave or hole in Gurteen, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim on the Gurteen mountains and it is known as "Teampail Teichric" -- There was once a man called Cormac Mac Sharry (Reawóg) living in Largy, Killasnett, County Leitrim. -- There was a man living in Glencar one time and he dreamt if he was beyond on London Bridge he would get a pot of gold. -- During the Penal Days when the Catholics were forbidden to practise their religion, Tiernan O'Rourke and his wife were living in Dromahair Castle... -- St Patrick was one day passing through County Leitrim and he came as far as Bunduff, a little river in North Leitrim. -- Long ago there lived a man in Glencar called Páidin Ó Laidhe and his son Sean, adjacent to the townland then called Five Pound Land, now called Castletown. / Ternan, Teresa Mac -- Once upon a time a bear met a fox on the road, carrying in his mouth several fishes. / Ternan, Mary Alice Mac -- One time a boy was lodged in a country house. / Ternan, Mary Alice Mac -- One time a little girl played a trick in the name of the devil. / Ternan, Mary Alice Mac -- Once upon a time there lived a man in a small thatched house in Grange, Co. Sligo. -- One fine Sunday a crowd of people gathered together at a crossroads and they began to dance. -- One time a man was going to the bog for a creel of turf. -- One time a man named Tom came to Manorhamilton with a pound to buy a bag of flour. -- One time a girl went washing to a lake and she saw a nest of 'Dourcús.' -- One time a farmer called John Hegarty was in search of a servant boy. / Ternan, Delia Mac -- On the lands of William Cullen, in the townland of Gortagregory, in the parish of Killasnett and in the barony of Rossclogher there is a rock of gold. -- During the reign of Queen Elizabeth there lived in Glencar a very wealthy man named Owen Cooney. -- One evening Mrs John Gordon was passing the fort that is situated by her house in the townland of Towneymachugh... / Kerrigan, John P. / Kerrigan, Brian -- One night sixty nine years ago a man named Owen Rooney was going home from ceilidhing in Willy Mac Cann's (Gurteen, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim). / Kerrigan, John P. / Kerrigan, Brian -- One evening Lord Leitrim came upon a man and his wife coming home from town and they loaded with parcels of every shape and size. / Kerrigan, John P. / Kerrigan, Brian -- 'Teampaill' is a large cave or hole in Gurteen, Manorhamilton. / Kerrigan, John P. / Kerrigan, Brian -- Long, long ago when witchery and magic were common in Ireland a man, wife and their family were living in their house. / Kerrigan, John P. / Kerrigan, Brian -- Once upon a time a little fairy woman came into a house and asked a little piece of butter. -- One time a poor farmer named James had two sons who never knew anything. -- One time a man met a girl on the side of the road and she was crying. -- One day a man went to put a bush in a gap. -- One winter's night a crowd of young men were playing cards and róging each other. -- Once upon a time there was a rich farmer named John Kelly. -- The 'gobhan saor' wanted to get his son married and to get a good wife for him... / Ternan, Seán Mac -- Long ago there was a man called Luke Flynn living in Drumahon, Gurteen P.O., Manorhamilton where Bernard O'Rourke now lives. -- There was a priest in Glencar one time called Father Pat Traynor and one day he had to attend a sick call over near the 'Protestant town.' / Ternan, Teresa Mac -- There was a man called William Martin living in Banagher, Leacán P.O., Five Mile Bourne, The Manor, County Leitrim one time. / Ternan, Teresa Mac -- The fore-mentioned William Martin had a net for catching fish and a double barrel pistol. / Ternan, Teresa Mac -- Long ago the Protestant town, Glencar, Sligo, was inhabited by Protestants only. -- Long ago the young men of Glencar used to gamble in William Mac Cann's, Gurteen, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim every night. -- Years ago in the old enchanted times all sorts of ghosts and goblins were supposed to reside about Teampaill. -- Once upon a time a crowd of young men were gambling in a farmer's house on a cold winter's night. -- In a country cottage one winter's night as the snow lay on the ground a crowd of young men were gambling and sure enough they were enjoying themselves quite merrily. -- Long, long years ago in the days of mighty men two giants decided to have a little battle. -- One cold, stormy, winter's night a little family circle were sitting comfortably at the turf-fire. / Thighearnáin, Teresa Nic -- There is a little bush on the back of Leawn mountain and it is called 'the fiddler's bush.' / Devaney, Bridie -- One day a man took his hatchet and went to cut a whitethorn bush for firewood, as fires were bad the same year. / Devaney, Bridie -- There was once a man in the olden days and he met with a great misfortune one time. -- Long, long years ago some of the people were very backward. -- One time two lands were talking about ghosts. / Ternan, Teresa Mac
description: Teacher name missing.
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.