DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5009025
title: Faughalstown

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Faughalstown (school) (Faughalstown, Co. Westmeath), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Bean Mhic Gabhann.
description: Old Prayer / Cotter, Mary -- Old Story / Haughey, Patrick -- Old Story / Haughey, Patrick -- Gobán Saor / Bruton, Peter -- Trotter / Haughey, Patrick -- Invisible Army / Shaw, James -- Funny Story / Bruton, Peter -- Funny Story - Honest Paddy / Boyhan, Brigid -- In years gone by there used to be big gatherings of people at the Crookedwood on Cora Sunday. / Smyth, Brigid -- There is an old castle near Derravargh's shore in Faughalstown called the Old Court or Mortimer's Castle. / Smyth, Brigid -- Padna's Céilí / Smyth, Brigid -- Funny Story / Smyth, Desmond -- Bonus / Smyth, Peter -- Funny Story / Maxwell, Thaddeus -- Funny Story / Fagan, Charles -- Story / Shaw, James -- Rolling Barrel / Shaw, James -- Strange Fish / Clinton, Laurence -- Story / Boyhan, Mary -- Cora Well / Boyhan, Mary -- Strange Incident / Bruton, Peter -- Funny Story / Gaffney, Christina -- Funny Story / Shaw, James -- Great Hunt / Shaw, James -- Fairy Story / Clinton, Patrick -- Barbavilla Murder / Shaw, James -- Story Number Three / Cotter, Mary -- Cut of Fore -- Witch Woman / Shaw, James -- Hidden Treasure / Boyhan, Brigid -- Hidden Treasure / Haughey, Patrick -- Hidden Treasure / Murtagh, Colm -- Local Heroes / Godfrey, Patrick -- Local Heroes / Haughey, Patrick -- Local Heroes / Reilly, Mary -- Local Happenings / Godfrey, Patrick -- Local Happenings / Haughey, Patrick -- Local Happenings / Clinton, Lawrence -- Local Happenings / Boyhan, Brigid -- Streamstown Murder / Boyhan, Brigid -- Local Happenings -- Streamstown Murder / Bruton, Peter -- Severe Weather / Maxwell, Thaddeus -- Severe Weather / Haughey, Patrick -- Severe Weather / Nea, Eithne -- Severe Weather / Burton, Peter -- Severe Weather / Godfrey, Patrick -- Local Marriage Customs / Flanagan, Josephine -- Local Marriage Customs / Maxwell, Thaddeus -- Local Marriage Customs / Godfrey, Patrick -- Story of the Penal Days / Haughey, Patrick -- Story of the Penal Days / Bruton, Peter -- Story of the Penal Days / Murtagh, Colm -- Old Schools / Godfrey, Patrick -- Old Schools / Bruton, Matthew -- Old Schools / Smyth, Mary -- Old Schools / Haughey, Patrick -- Old Schools / Bruton, Peter -- Old Schools / Boyhan, Brigid -- Old Crafts - Wheel-Making / Bruton, Peter -- Candle-Making / Clinton, Laurence -- Basket-Making / Haughey, Patrick -- Eel-Spearing / Haughey, Patrick -- Candle-Making / Smyth, Mary -- Local Place Names - Names of Fields in Gartlandstown / Haughey, Patrick -- Names of Fields in Streamstown / Bruton, Matthew -- Names of Fields in Faughalstown / Murtagh, Colm -- Homemade Toys / Haughey, Patrick -- Homemade Toys / Bruton, Matthew -- Bird-Lore / Smyth, Desmond -- Bird-Lore / Flanagan, Josephine -- Local Cures / Godfrey, Patrick -- Local Cures / Flanagan, Josephine -- Local Cures / Haughey, Patrick -- Local Cures / Bruton, Matthew -- Fairy Forts / Godfrey, Patrick -- Local Poets / Bruton, Matthew -- Borrowed Donkey / Haughey, Patrick -- Velvet Corduroy / Smyth, Desmond -- Beaus of Whitehall / Flanagan, Josephine -- Spraying Machine / Bruton, Brigid -- Policeman's Lament / Cotter, Mary -- Jimmy of Donore / Clinton, Laurence -- Bog of Timohoe / Nea, Maud -- Ring to Laddy / Nea, Maud -- My Home District / Murtagh, Colm -- Townland of Frenchestown -- Townland of Gartlandstown / Haughey, Patrick -- Townland of Benison Lodge / Gaffney, Christina -- Townland of Dernegarra / Flanagan, Josephine -- Townland of Streamstown / Bruton, Matthew -- Townland of Ringstown / Flanagan, Josephine -- Herbs / Flanagan, Josephine -- Herbs / Haughey, Patrick -- Herbs / Bruton, Peter -- Herbs / Bruton, Matthew -- Churning / Bruton, Peter -- Churning / Maxwell, Thaddeus -- Potato Crop / Godfrey, Patrick -- Potato Crop / Haughey, Patrick -- Proverbs / Bruton, Peter -- Festival Customs - Shrove and Shrove Tuesday / Flanagan, Josephine -- Festival Customs - Halloween / Bruton, Peter -- Festival Customs - May Day / Smyth, Desmond -- Without title
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.