DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5044720
title: Grangecon

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Grangecon (school) (Grange Con, Co. Wicklow), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Ss Ó Maoláin.
description: Signs of the Weather -- Riddles / Byrne, Kathleen -- When the late Pierce O'Mahony ("The O'Mahony of Kerry) was very young he used visit his Uncle in Grange Con and live for months at a time with him. -- Young Taylor lived at Collinstown station. He was a very feeble boy and one leg was greatly deformed. / Maoláin, Séamus Ó -- Piper's Stones / Mallen, Sheila -- Local idea certainly is that King Cormac was buried in Killeen Cormac. -- Very little tradition about Michael Dwyer in this locality. The only story obtainable being that one night he was on the run. -- There is a field in Mr Stephen Nolans in Rathbran. There is supposed to have been a battle in this field. / Germaine, Joe -- The Archaeological Society some years ago paid a visit to Grange Con to see the ruins. / Maoláin, S. Ó -- Lord Walter was going along the bog road, when he came upon an old man whose ass's car was overturned. / Maoláin, S. Ó -- Moll Antony / Mallen, Sheila -- Moll Antony -- Lights / Maoláin, S. Ó -- Simon Fylan used to go up on Ballykane Hill to shoot rabbits on a moonlight night. -- Once upon a time a protestant man by the name of Mr. Tutty lived in Whitestown. / Byrne, Kathleen -- Once upon a time a man names Hughes was returning from the town of Tullow. / Byrne, Mary -- In Freynestown there is a house (uninhabited at the present time) in which a girl, her mother and father lived. / Byrne, Mary -- Once upon a time a man lived near Timolin. He had a wicked dog which was disliked by all the people. / Doyle, Paddy -- One time there lived in Ballycore a man named Edward Dowling. He wished to build a house but he had not enough stones. / Doyle, Paddy -- In the same house there lived a girl. One day she went out behind the house to pick flowers. / Doyle, Paddy -- This man who was named Cardiff, lived in Ballyhook. That was about eighty years ago. / Powell, Bridie -- There was a man a long time ago coming up along the creamery road one night about twelve o clock. / Norton, Tom -- One night a man by the name of Jack White was coming home from Dunlavin and he met a man who was playing cards by himself... / Nolan, Sheila -- Some centuries ago a man by the name of Fitzgerald was taken by the fairies and at the end of every seven years he rides on a horse which is shod with silver shoes. / Nolan, Sheila -- A man and his wife were taking a short cut across the fields and they saw a little man tumbling in the nettles and the man caught him... / Nolan, Sheila -- One day Mr Norton, Knockarig was working in a house and a boy that was working there told him not to sleep in the house but Mr Norton said he would. / Moore, Michael -- When we came to live in Grange Con at first, we heard that this house was haunted. / Courtney, Sheila -- There were a parish Priest and Curate who lived in Dunlavin. One of the Priests got a sick call one night and the Curate went. / Sleator, Noel
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.