DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4428269
title: Ballinakillew

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Ballinakillew (school) (Ballynakillew Mountain, Co. Donegal), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Mary K. Nutt.
description: Mullinacross Graveyard / Murray, Maggie Mc -- Old Burial Place / Murray, Maggie Mc -- Old Road / Harron, Derrick -- Old Graveyard / Kerr, Edith -- Another Old Graveyard / Harron, Evelyn -- Graveyard at Hollybrooke / Harron, Evelyn -- Human Bones Found / Logan, Ruby -- Old Roads / Logan, Ruby -- Skeletons of Drumholm / Logan, Ruby -- Piper's Hole / Harron, Derrick -- Wishing Stone of Marriage / Harron, Derrick -- Old Plate / Quinn, Mary -- Giant's Stone on Carrick Alt / Murray, Maggie Mc -- Story of a Giant / Kerr, Edith -- Old Road / Kerr, Edith -- Land Slide / Kerr, Edith -- Dead Man who Came to Life / Kerr, Edith -- Raffle on a Dead Donkey / Kerr, Edith -- Old Road / Murray, Maggie Mc -- Greed / Murray, Maggie Mc -- Enchanted Hare / Murray, Maggie Mc -- Giant's Stone at Carrick / Harron, Derrick -- Misunderstanding / Harron, Derrick -- Giant of Coole / Logan, Ruby -- Fairy Fort / Logan, Ruby -- Witch of Coxtown / Logan, Ruby -- Old Hawthorn Tree / Logan, Ruby -- Forts / Crea, Willie Mc -- Mermaid / Crea, Willie Mc -- Milk Taken by the Fairies / Kerr, Edith -- Giant's Chair / Harron, Evelyn -- Fairies Made her Blind / Harron, Evelyn -- Haunted House / Harron, Evelyn -- Cures -- Cures -- Cures -- Cures / Crea, Willie Mc -- Cures / Harron, Evelyn -- Cures / Logan, Ruby -- Wise Sheepdog / Kerr, Edith -- Ghost Laid / Kerr, Edith -- Fright / Kerr, Edith -- Accident that Happened Near Us / Quinn, Mary -- Curiosity / Quinn, Mary -- Fairies Take a Cow / Quinn, Mary -- Fort / Kerr, Edith -- Ghost / Kerr, Edith -- Ghost / Kerr, Edith -- Fairies at the Well / Harron, Evelyn -- Bones Found this Week / Harron, Evelyn -- Coxtown Gatehouse / Harron, Evelyn -- Phantom Horse / Harron, Evelyn -- My Home District / Murray, Maggie Mc -- Ghost Story / Murray, Maggie Mc -- Ghost Story / Murray, Maggie Mc -- Ghost Story / Murray, Maggie Mc -- Weather-Lore / Murray, Maggie Mc -- Old Crafts / Murray, Maggie Mc -- True Story / Murray, Maggie Mc -- Phantom Cart / Murray, Maggie Mc -- My Home District / Harron, Evelyn -- My Home District / Herr, Edith -- My Home District / Harron, Willie -- Food of the People of Long Ago / Logan, Ruby -- Story about Fairies / Harron, Evelyn -- Piper's Hole at Brownhall, Ballintra / Harron, Evelyn -- Song / Murray, Maggie Mc -- Cuckoo Donkey / Harron, Derrick -- Song / Kerr, Edith -- This poem was made by an old railway ganger. When the Donegal railway was being made. / Kerr, Edith -- Little Girl taken by the Fairies / Monaghan, Eileen -- Banshee / Monaghan, Eileen -- Warning / Monaghan, Eileen -- Strong Man / Quinn, Mary -- He Was Found Out / Quinn, Mary -- In Olden Times / Clay, Sadie Mc -- Old Chair / Clay, Sadie Mc -- Dress of Long Ago / Clay, Sadie Mc -- Witch of Coxtown / Logan, Ruby -- Poem / Logan, Ruby -- Poem -- Strange Experience / Harron, Derrick -- Mass Rock in Carrick / Logan, Ruby -- Injured by the Fairies / Logan, Ruby -- On the land of Paddy McGlenchy, of Rathneeny Bar. Laghey, there is a fort which is supposed to be haunted by the fairies. / Logan, Ruby -- Landlord Fooled / Quinn, Mary -- In Olden Times / Clay, Sadie Mc -- True Story / Harron, Derrick -- Poor Man's Friend
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.