DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4713255
title: Na Cnocáin

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Na Cnocáin (school) (Knockanes, Co. Kerry), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Bean Uí Spealáin.
description: Brick Field / Doherty, Patrick -- Cas na Cúinne / Cahill, Diarmuid -- Folklore / Cahill, Diarmuid -- Tobar na Naomh / Doherty, Bridie -- Domhnall Ó Donncadha / Healy, Lizzie -- Time of Tadhg and Donal / Sullivan, Eileen -- Fairy Story / Sullivan, Joan O' -- Rae na Croiche / Spealáin, Dominic Ó -- Páirc an Leasa / Healy, Biddy -- Cnocán na Rince / Sullivan, Joan O' -- Old Story / Sullivan, Ellen O' -- Reilig / Kelly, Hanna -- Richard O'Leary / Spillane, Dominic -- Cliúin Field / Donoghue, Mary O' -- Gollán Stone / Donoghue, Mary O' -- Old Fort / Sullivan, Joan O' -- The Duel / Spillane, Dominic -- Arthur O' Leary's Trial / Spillane, Dominic -- Orpen / Healy, Paddy -- Fairy Story / Sullivan, Joan -- Widow's Curse / Spillane, Dominic -- Páirc na gCopóg / Healy, Biddy -- Muckross Abbey / Healy, Lizzie -- Punchbowl / Cathaill, Diarmuid Ó -- City / Conaill, Seán Ó -- The O'Leary's -- Lonh ago there lived a monk in Northeern Ireland. He committed some sin and for penance he was told say the rosary in a field in Muckross... / Shúileabáin, Siobhán Ní -- There is a fort about two miles to the east of this school in a field called Pairc Leara - fairies used to be seen there every night long ago playing football... / Crowley, Tim -- Gortdearg / Cronin, Dan -- Moving Bog / Doherty, Patrick -- There is a ford near our house where Mass used to be celebrated long ago... / Cahill, Diarmuid -- Old Forge / Moynihan, Nora -- Long ago fairies used to be seen. There were two boys playing on the road one day and a gentleman came along and coaxed one of the boys with him and led him as far as a fort... / Moynihan, Nora -- City / Connell, John -- In our farm long ago in one of the fields there was a house and a widow living in it... / Kelly, Mary -- Long years ago there was a boy going around the country looking for work. A landlord hired him... / Mhúineacáin, Nóra Ní -- Past Method of Making Butter / Cheallaig, Máire Ní -- Fairy Story / Sullivan, Paddy -- Fairy Story / Chonaill, Sighle Ní -- Fairy Story / Cathaill, Micheál Ó -- How the Gobán Saor Got His Wife -- How the Gobán Saor Built a Castle -- Brewsterfield -- Orpen and the Outlaws -- In the district of Rathmore about forty years ago, two men were on their way home from a wake. It was very late at night... / Chonaill, Áine Ní -- Cian na mBeann Óir / Dhochartaig, Brighid Ní -- Lamp / Shúileabháin, Eibhlín Ní -- Bulláinín Bán / Healy, Paddy / Sullivan, Jackie -- Piseoga -- Famine / Healy, Lizzie -- This man lived in Cuilea long ago. The people long ago used to go down to Limerick in the harvest picking potatoes... / Moynihan, Nora -- Old Story / Healy, Biddy -- Old Story / Sullivan, Joan O' -- Jack the Fool / Healy, Lizzie -- One of the O'Donoghues / Healy, Paddy -- Páirc na Sióga -- Black Thief / Doherty, Patrick -- Though Irish has not been spoken as a language in this school district for three quarters of a century or more, the following words are used here every day...
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.