DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4602725
title: Tulchán

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Tulchán (school) (Tullaghan, Co. Leitrim), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Seosamh Mac Guidhir.
description: Rossfriar and the Monks / Guidhir, Seosamh Mac -- Cormac Riabhach / Guidhir, Seosamh Mac -- Gillaroe / Guidhir, Seosamh Mac -- Hidden Treasure / Guidhir, Seosamh Mac -- Tawley Lake Treasure / Guidhir, Seosamh Mac -- Carrick Treasure / Guidhir, Seosamh Mac -- McClancy Castle Treasure / Guidhir, Seosamh Mac -- Wardhouse Treasure / Guidhir, Seosamh Mac -- Cleary's Treasure / Guidhir, Seosamh Mac -- Lake Treasure / Guidhir, Seosamh Mac -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Funny Story -- Funny Story -- Marriage Customs -- Riddles -- Riddles -- Riddles -- Funny Story -- Funny Story -- Funny Story -- Local Heroes -- Local Heroes -- Local Heroes -- Local Heroes -- Local Heroes -- Local Happenings -- Local Happenings -- Local Happenings -- Local Happenings -- Old Schools -- Old Schools -- Old Schools -- Old Schools -- Marriage Customs -- Marriage Customs -- Marriage Customs -- Marriage Customs -- Marriage Customs -- Marriage Customs -- Penal Days -- Penal Days -- Penal Days -- Penal Days -- Local Place Names -- Local Place Names -- Local Place Names -- Local Place Names -- Local Place Names -- Local Cures -- Local Cures -- Local Cures -- Local Cures -- Local Cures -- About a hundred years ago the people made their own dolls at home. -- Long ago the people never bought dolls. They made them themselves. -- Long ago the people made their own toys. -- About one hundred years ago there were no toys to be got in shops so the people had to make toys of their own. -- About a hundred years ago the people used to make their own toys such as dolls and ships and kites. -- Monday and Thursday are counted very lucky days for making cures and Saturday a very unlucky day. -- Long ago there were certain days on which the people used to plant the potatoes and sow the corn. -- Every Wednesday of the week is a lucky day for changing to a new house but the people say "Saturday's flitting is a short sitting." -- Whit Sunday is an unlucky day to be born. It is said any person born on Whit Sunday would commit murder. -- A great many people put in their crop on Good Friday because they say that they would have good luck with their crops. -- The borrowing days of the year are the last two days of March and the first day of April. -- There is a Fairy Fort in Martin McGurran's field. -- One night about twelve o'clock when my grandfather was burning a kiln of lime he saw three little lights down in the bogs. -- There is an old forth in Augharrow situated on the side of a hill. -- At Tullaghan there is a forth named Cruc-na-hee in the townland of Towneytalen. -- Story -- One May morning about seventy years ago Felix Gallagher had a horse away from the house in a field. -- Gillaroe in Lough Melvin -- There was once a man living in Glenade whose name was Hughdie Big Ned. -- Black Thief of Shrone -- There was one time a man and his wife who went out to save hay to a meadow. -- One time Tom Connor had a cat. -- One time two men were coming from rambling in Wardhouse. -- There were three sons and their father who lived in Castlegal and they had hay in grasscocks. -- There was once a man living in Glenade. His name was Hughdie Big Ned. -- Long ago the last three of the Danes was left in Ireland. -- In the year 1847 when the famine raged through Ireland this district suffered very much. -- In the time of the famine there was a boiler in Wardhouse for making porridge the Government supplied. -- The Famine started in the year 1846 because of the blight on the potatoes. -- In the famine times there was a boiler in Wardhouse for making stirabout. -- In the famine times there was a boiler in Wardhouse. -- There is a mass path coming from Laughta down the bar lane to Tom Rooney's field. -- There are some old roads through the country which are not used now. -- The road leading from Tullaghan to Wardhouse is a very old road. -- There are two St Patrick's wells situated in Redbrae near the sea. -- There is a well in Gubacreeny called Saint Marshal's well. -- There is a holy well in Gubacreeny in a field of John Feelys. -- There are a great many holy wells around this district. -- Herbs -- Herbs -- Herbs -- Herbs -- Herbs -- Herbs -- Festival Customs -- Festival Customs -- Festival Customs -- Festival Customs -- Festival Customs -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story - The Highest Penny -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story
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.