DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5177637
title: Doora, Cuinche

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Doora, Cuinche (school) (Deerpark, Co. Clare), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Cáit Diolún.
description: One morning my grandfather was going to Limerick with two pigs in a horse car. -- Once upon a time there was a man living by himself in a little house. -- Once upon a time there lived a poor man in a little haunted house up near Ennis. -- Once upon a time there was a man and he used to go out every night. -- There was an old man who lived in a house in Clare. -- My father told me story last night which he heard from my grandfather. -- There is a fort in a field near my house. -- My grandfather told me this story. -- Once upon a time there was a man and he was very poor. -- Once upon a time there lived a man. -- My father told me a story last night about a banshee. -- The school was injured by lightning in the year 1929. -- A man that lived near my father one time. -- I heard a story about a man who lived near Limerick. -- There is a field at the back of Mr McInerney's house. It is called 'the fairies field'. -- There is a big crag not far from my house. -- The name of my townland is Manus. -- My father said that he was coming home from Limerick one night in the horse car and it was very dark. -- Lord Leckinfield was the landlord of Manus long ago. -- My father told me a story during the Christmas about a field that is near our house. -- Once upon a time there lived a man who lived near my Father and he was very poor. -- The remains of an old house is in Miss Lynch's land. -- My grandfather told me a story about a rock that is at the back of Miss Mac Inerney's house. -- The houses of long ago were made of mud. -- One night my grandfather was coming home from town and he was walking. -- There is a big lios in a field in McInerney's land. -- My father told me a story about a big field that is at the back of my aunt's house. -- Mr Mac Donnell was the Landlord of all the townland of Doora and Ballyvanavan. -- The children of long ago hardly ever bought toys. -- There is a blessed well in Newhall. -- Manus is the name of my townland. -- There is a leprechaun often seen in McInerney's grove. -- There is an old ruin at the back of our house. -- There is a graveyard not far away from our house. -- There was a shop at the Mine which was owned by Mrs O'Loughlin. -- Once upon a time there was a man living with his wife in a little house not far away from Ennis. -- There was a man living alone one time. -- There is the ruins of an old hunter's shop that was there long ago in the townland of Drumdulcacney. -- The people of long ago used no tea. -- There is a holy well near the Mental Hospital. -- The houses long ago were mostly made of mud. -- There is a very old graveyard in Quin. -- A leprechaun is a very small little man. -- There is a holy well not far away from Lisdoonvarna. -- The people long ago generally used to get married at one certain time of the year called Shrove. -- Long ago the houses were all built of mud and were called mud cabins. -- There are the ruins of an old grocer's shop in one of Mr McInerney's fields. -- There is a fort in Delahunty's land. -- Major G. O'Grady was the landlord of our land long ago. -- There is a holy well in Ballyea in the parish of Clare Castle. -- Once upon a time there was a man who lived in this district. -- The people long ago generally got married at a time of the year called Shrove which lasted from Little Christmas day until Shrove Tuesday.
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.