DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4666578
title: Chúil Árd (C.)

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from An Chúil Árd (C.) (school) (Coolard, Co. Kerry), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Máire Ní Liaghain.
description: Old Story / Scanlon, Kit -- Hidden Treasure / Scanlon, Kit -- Hidden Treasure / Elligott, Mary Mc -- Hidden Treasure / Scanlon, Kit -- Hidden Treasure / Walsh, Sheila -- Riddles -- Signs of the Weather -- Old Story / Scanlon, Kit -- Old Story / Walsh, Eliza -- Old Story / Hanrahan, Nancy -- Old Story / Walsh, Sheila -- Local Heroes / Scanlon, Kit -- Local Heroes / Hanrahan, Nancy -- Long ago there lived a man named Shaun Murnane and he was a great fiddler. / Walsh, Sheila -- Marriage Customs / Hanrahan, Nancy -- Place Names / Hanrahan, Nancy -- Games I Play / Hanrahan, Nancy -- Place Names / Scanlon, Kit -- St Bartholomew's Well / Hanrahan, Nancy -- Travelling Folk / Scanlon, Kit -- Travelling Folk / Elligot, Mary Mc -- Travelling Folk / Walsh, Bridie -- Travelling Folk / Kelly, Hanna -- My Home District / Walsh, Eliza -- My Home District / Kelly, Hanna -- My Home District / Elligott, Mary Mac -- My Home District / Dwyer, Hanna -- My Home District / Walsh, Nora -- Linen / Scanlon, Bridie -- Woollen Cloth / Elligott, Mary Mc -- Candle-Making / Dowling, Bridie -- Lime-Kilns / Dwyer, Hanna -- Churning / Walsh, Nora -- Fairy Forts / Walsh, Nora -- Mike Buckley of Coolkeragh went to Denis Connor's fort... / Dwyer, Hanna -- There is an incident told about Hegarty's fort. / Corridon, Lizzie -- One day a man went into a fort nearby... / Walsh, Eliza -- Local Cures / Dowling, Bridie -- Local Cures / Scanlon, Kit -- Local Cures / Hanrahan, Nancy -- Local Cures / Walsh, Eliza -- Local Cures / Scanlon, Kit -- About fifty years ago there lived at Duagh a family of the O'Sullivn's. / Scanlon, Kit -- A man was drawing home hay one day from a meadow. / Walsh, Eliza -- There was once a fort that was built in Coolkeragh... / Walsh, Eliza -- One night a man was coming from Listowel. / Hanrahan, Nancy -- The gabha beag was a wee black-smith named James Nolan,... / Dowling, Bridie -- Fairy Story / Walsh, Nora -- Old Story / Walsh, Nora -- Caves of Guhard / Scanlon, Kit -- Caves of Guhard / Walsh, Nora -- Weeds / Walsh, Eliza -- Weeds / Walsh, Nora -- My father sets about an acre of potatoes every year. / Kelly, Hanna -- Setting Drills / Kelly, Hanna -- Care of Potatoes / Scanlon, Kit -- Digging Potatoes / Hanrahan, Nancy -- Old Story / Hanrahan, Nancy -- Old Story / Walsh, Nora -- Old Story / Kelly, Hanna -- Proverbs -- Pishogues / Scanlon, Kit -- Pishogues / Walsh, Nora -- Bread in Olden Times / Scanlon, Kit -- Houses Long Ago / Dowling, Bridie -- It is said if you put a part of a plough in the fire another person could not make her butter. / Scanlon, Bridie -- If birds came down the chimney and went out the door it would be the sign of bad luck. -- About one hundred and twenty years ago, poor travelling women went around the country called Connacht women. / Scanlon, Kit -- Local Happenings / Scanlon, Bridie -- Land League / Scanlon, Kit -- Forge / Scanlon, Kit -- Tailoring / Dwyer, Hanna -- Shoemakers / Walsh, Nora -- August 15th / Collins, Sheila -- Chalk Sunday / Walsh, Nora -- St Brigid's Day / Corridan, Lizzie -- St Martin's Day / Walsh, Eliza -- St Stephen's Day / Scanlon, Kit -- It was in the time of the Landleague,... / Scanlon, Kit -- Pishogues -- Long ago people used to make spancels out of the snare of the cows' tails. / Scanlon, Kit
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.