DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4921630
title: Béal Átha Fhinghín (B.)

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Béal Átha Fhinghín (B.) (school) (Ballineen, Co. Cork), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Beircheart Seártan.
description: Dunmanway - The Coxes - Site for Catholic Church / Cobhthaigh, Seán Ó -- Má Gun / Futhcheallaigh, Séamus Ó -- Má Gun -- Má Gun -- The Prócadóir / Cobhthaigh, Seán Ó -- When the Gaorthadh Bridge was built they were caught... -- Father John Power was parish priest of Rosscarbery about one hundred years ago... -- The Duves were famous highway men who were born somewhere between the region of Ballineen and Bandon... / Neill, Donal O' -- The Beamishes lived in Kilmalooda. They owned a lot of property and the graveyard was in their land... / Cobhthaigh, Seán Ó -- Sean dearg Nash lived in Brinny near Bandon. / Neill, Donal O' -- When the landlords were in power they treated the tenant very cruelly... -- There lived in Clogagh in the time of the Soupers a poor working man named Mick Singleton... -- There was a man by the name of OKeefe. He lived between Clonakilty and Rosscarbery... -- Headless Huntsman -- A long time ago there lived in a big Mansion a certain gentleman who was a terrible tyrant. And his Father who was dying was still worse... / Aonghusa, Seosef Ó h -- About 80 years ago when the Catholics we downtrodden. The parishioners would feel very happy if they would be able to have one priest Father Ned Mulcahy was a parish priest in Kilbritain at the time... / Cobhthaigh, Seán Ó -- Máire Ghaolach / Cobhthaigh, Seán Ó -- About 180 years ago there lived in a small thatched house on the side of the road, between Cahervouler Cremary and Knocks school a woman named "Máire Gaolach"... / Feithcheallaigh, Séamus Ó -- Beamish - Palaceanne -- A woman named Mrs. Donovan of Knocknapogue near Ballinadee was coming home from Bandon very late one night, about fifty years ago... -- Jack Bata was going late one night from Gurtaleen to Buckaree... -- Taidhgín Riabhach was a carpenter that was there long ago. His name was Crowley... -- A very long time ago there lived a very old woman by the name of Moll Carroll... / Neill, Domhnall O' -- In the time of the Whiteboys a certain Whiteboys came in to Castletown and a woman went to Captain Beamish to tell him... / Síthigh, Tomás hÉnnrí Mac -- Mr Jennings before he died ploughed a liss and set garden there after being warned not to interfere with it... / Neill, Donal O' -- The lived in Dunmanway about 100 years ago a family named Cox... -- The Bonny Bunch of Roses O -- Song -- Tenant Farmer -- Old Mrs Smiley -- Father Dan - Parish Priest of Inis Céin 80 Years Ago -- Véarsaí -- Véarsaí -- Véarsaí -- Tadhg was one Sunday going to Castletown Mass... -- Tadhg Ciaruigheach and a woman, a neighbout of his, each gave an order to Mick Báid in Dunmanway for a pair of shoes... -- Song / Fithcheallaigh, Séamus Ó -- When she was a child they had a workman named Tim Sexton... -- Song / Cruadhlaoich, Eoin Ó -- Dunmanway -- "Father Dan OSullivan ("Father Dan") was P.P. of Inis Chéin about eighty years ago... -- A Dhonnchadh is Léir Liom -- There was an old man who used to be going around here long ago... -- Aodhagán O Rathaille went into a house somewhere... -- My mother's grandfather was Curley Murphy. He lived in a big house at Gurt a Lín, and he owned all the top of Kinneigh... -- A part of the main road leading to our house from a place called the Idlebrdge to the Lordscross is supposed by many people to be haunted... / Aongusa, Seosef Ó h -- "Long ago there was a fairy hunt in Manch when I was small. They used to see the faries hunting... -- In olden times there liven a Colonel in a big demesne, he had a lot of Protestant tenants and there lived a few Catholics near them... -- One night a young man named Denis O Mahony Garrendruig went stealing apples from a garden that belonged to Frank Stawell Ivy lodge near Kilbritain Casle... -- Some people long ago at Kinneigh suffered from having no butter... -- Máire na Scian -- Jackie the Lantern (sic) was a blacksmith... -- Pictiúr é seo de shoc shean-chéachta "adhmaid" atá i seilbh T. Uas, O Muircheartaigh, Cigire Sgol... -- The Thatching Needle -- Sketch of a Castóir -- A Butter-Print -- For lighting purposes they used a splinter of fir ("ver") ("bog-wood")... -- Uirlisí -- Flax Wheel -- Doimhneog -- Treá -- Fragment of Floor of Corn Kiln - Earthenware -- Gabhann "The Bold Tenant Farmer" leis an bhfonn so... / Seártain, B. -- Ainmneacha Áiteann -- My grandmother used to tell this. She has two uncles and they had a boat, a "sloop" she used to call it... -- Men from Clonakilty were out fishing one night she used to tell. They caught a strange sort of fish the like of which they never saw before... -- When she was young, a cousin of hers - his name was Dave Barry - had a fine mare that he thought a lot about... -- I often heard Dinny Dan's mother God rest her, tell this story. When she was a young girl at home a neighbour of hers, a young married woman got sick... -- Saol na nDaoine - Saothar Bia -- Setting Potatoes -- Setting Wheat -- They used to kill a cow for Christmas. They would have her maybe three months fattening on raw potatoes and cabbage and wheaten straw... -- Spinning - Tucking -- Lime-Burning -- "It is often I spent a night working at the flax. Everyone in the house would have his own job... -- A Song Sung to the Cow while Milking -- Piseoga -- The Names of Dance Masters -- Piseog -- "Píobaire na Gruaige" was a dancing master who used to travel around here about sixty years ago... -- Píobaire na gruaige was in college... -- Hedge-Schools -- Hedge-Schools -- Mass Rock -- Mass Rock -- Mass Rock -- Mass Rock -- Mass Rock -- Leigheasanna -- Spells - Charms -- Spells - Charms -- A long time ago there was a priest going on a sick call... -- "One of the Conners of Fortrobert, Robert was his name, joined Fenians. The English were after him for a long time... -- In the house of Coxe's Br. lives Lord Norberry when he condemned Robert Emmet to death... -- One night, not very long ago "Rich" Lordan was passing there with a horse and cart... -- In the time of the troubles there were sentries posted at the Lord's Coors and they saw the dog walking up and down beside them... / Lordan, John
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.