DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4742166
title: Allenwood

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Allenwood (school) (Allenwood, Co. Kildare), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Seán Ó Clúmháin.
description: Story / Flynn, Mary -- Funny Story / Flynn, Mary -- Story -- Story / Flynn, Mary -- This is a rhyme which the boys sing on St Stephens Day when they are going round with the wren. / Dowling, Patrick -- A threepenny bit is called a kid's eye. -- There is a rhyme about the days of the week. / Dowling, Patrick -- On my father's land there is a bush growing and beside it is a holly tree. / Dowling, Pat -- Funny Story / Dowling, Patrick -- Fairy Forts / Dowling, Patrick -- Churning / Dowling, Patrick -- When the cow is milked the person dips his finger in the milk and makes the Sign of the Cross on the cow. / Dowling, Patrick -- Feet / Dowling, Patrick -- A nice game can be played with the old horse shoes. / Dowling, Patrick -- My Home District / Dowling, Patrick -- Churning / Cross, Kathleen -- Funny Story / Crosse, Kathleen -- Games / Crosse, Kathleen -- My Home District / Crosse, Kathleen -- Clothes / Dunne, Elizabeth -- Funny Story / Dunne, Elizabeth -- Fairy Forts -- The eggs that the hens lay on Good Friday and Holy Saturday, the people put crosses on them with soot. -- When the person that is milking has finished she puts a cross with milk on the cow. -- Great Men / Regan, Thomas -- Herbs -- My Home District / Flynn, Mary -- There are a lot of ruined castles around here, Ballyteague, Kilmeague, Blackwood, and Carbury. -- There was a hedge school near Jone's and a man named Mr O Keefe, used to teach the children. / Flynn, Mary -- Travelling People / Dunne, Patrick -- Toys / Dunne, Patrick -- Riddles / Dunne, Patrick -- People with the same name before they were married can cure the wildfire and the whooping cough. -- Mr Carroll has a field called the "Laca-deire" in Derrymullen. -- A buachallán is a plant that animals would not eat. / Dunne, Patrick -- Place Names / Dunne, Patrick -- Potatoes / Dunne, Patrick -- My Home District / Ennis, Marcella -- Houses / Ennis, Marcella -- Leprechaun / Ennis, Marcella -- Penal Days / Ennis, Marcella -- Place Names / Ennis, Marcella -- Potatoes -- Proverbs -- Prayers -- Roads / Ennis, Marcella -- Ruins -- Long ago the Ballyteague people used to come across the fields to Mass. / Ennis, Marcella -- There was a hedge-school long ago in Ballyteague in a field now owned by Keenan's Ballyteague. / Ennis, Marcella -- Toys -- Weather / Ennis, Marcella -- Travelling People / Ennis, Marcella -- Riddles -- Travelling People -- Weather / Kennedy, James -- My Home District / Ennis, Brigid -- Place Names / Ennis, Brigid -- Proverbs / Ennis, Brigid -- Riddles / Ennis, Brigid -- Roads -- Standard Sack / Ennis, Brigid -- There is an old woman buried on the canal bank in Derrymullen and there is a big black dog seen at her grave every night. -- Old people say Happy is the corpse that the rain falls on. -- Games / Ennis, Brigid -- Herbs / Ward, Maggie -- Place Names -- He who fights and runs away will live to fight another day but he who fights and takes his chance will exist in the ambulance. / Ward, Maggie -- Riddles / Ward, Maggie -- Mass Stories / Ward, Maggie -- Food -- In Kinnegad there used to be a fair called the "fair of the blackthorn stick". / Connolly, Nellie -- Graveyards -- My Home District / Connelly, N. -- Games / Connelly, Nellie -- Houses / Connelly, Nellie -- Story / Connelly, Nellie -- Herbs -- Leprechaun / Connelly, N. -- Penal Days / Connelly, Nellie -- Place Names / Connelly, N. -- Potatoes -- Old Roads / Connelly, N. -- Story / Connelly, N. -- Proverbs -- Toys / Connelly, N. -- Schools -- Weather / Connelly, Nellie -- Story -- If a person's eye is itching it is a sign of crying. / Connelly, Nellie -- Games I Play / Kennedy, Mary F. -- My Home District -- Weeds -- Travelling People -- When the pot-hooks is sticky it is the sign of rain. -- Games -- Story / Kennedy, Mary F. -- The first bicycles that came round here were called "Philosophers" and some people called them "iron horses". / Kennedy, Mary F. -- Forts / Kennedy, Mary F. -- Lucky and Unlucky / Kennedy, Mary F. -- Folklore -- Place Names / Dunne, Elsie -- Travelling People / Dunne, Elsie -- Games -- Story / Dunne, Elsie -- There was a monastery at "the hill of Cill Cuara" in Allenwood North. / Dunne, Elsie -- It is unlucky to look at anyone shaving. -- Folklore / Dunne, Elsie -- There is a place in Allenwood called "The beggar-man's hill". / Regan, Thomas -- Riddles / Regan, Thomas -- Folklore / Regan, Thomas -- There was an old school in Boston. -- Songs / Regan, Thomas -- Songs / Regan, Thomas -- Songs / Regan, Thomas -- Stories -- Stories -- Stories -- Stories -- Stories -- Stories -- Stories -- Place Names / Dowling, Francis -- Riddles -- Games / Dowling, Frank -- Story / Ward, Maggie -- Place Names -- Proverbs -- Travelling People -- Weather -- Games -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story / Dowling, Patrick -- Story / Dowling, Pat -- Long ago an old woman went around with besoms. -- Will-o'-the-Wisp -- Folklore / Ennis, Brigid -- Folklore -- Folklore -- Folklore -- Folklore -- Folklore -- Signs -- Story -- Story -- Story / Ennis, Brigid -- Games -- Story -- Story -- Story -- The banshee follows certain families. -- Signs -- Signs -- Riddles -- Every night the hens talk about going to Denmark the next day. and the next morning something always stops them from going. / Ennis, Marcella -- Herbs -- Proverbs / Ennis, Marcella -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Riddles -- As round as an apple... -- In Ticknevin Carbury Co Kildare the adults used to go to night school to learn Catechism. -- If the sun sets red it is the sign of frost. -- Once upon a time a man was coming home from a fair.
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.