DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4493712
title: Taobh Breac

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Taobh Breac (school) (Tievebrack, Co. Donegal), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Donnchadh E. Mac Congáile.
description: Foreword / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Donaghmore / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- People / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Townlands / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Forts / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Holy Wells / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- O'Neills and O'Donnells, Killgordon Castle / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Castlefin / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Battle of the Finn / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Plantation / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- In the Famine Times / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Late Charlie Gallen of Gortichar and Shooting in Cattle / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Féar Gorta or Hunger Grass / Congáile, Donnachadh Mac -- Strays / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- My Home District / Menamin, Lizzie Mc -- Local Happenings / Carlin, Patrick -- Bird-Lore / Menamin, Eileen Mac -- Weather-Lore / Cormick, Dan Mac -- Local Cures / Kane, Hugh -- Herbs / Carlin, Mary -- In the Penal Times / Carlin, Gerald -- Fairy Forts / Carlin, Patrick -- Riddles / Laughlin, John Mc -- Local Marriage Customs / Doherty, Maureen -- Famine Times / Cormick, Dan Mac -- Proverbs / Menamin, Eileen Mac -- Festival Customs / Carlin, Patrick -- Donaghmore Place Names / Carlin, Mary -- Potato Crop / Menamin, Lizzie Mc -- Local Poets / Carlin, Gerald -- Local Roads / Carlin, Patrick -- Local Travelling Folk / Doherty, Maureen -- Buying and Selling / Gallagher, Madeline -- Funny Stories / Menamin, Eileen Mac -- Local Heroes / Menamin, Lizzie Mac -- Old Stories / Carlin, Patrick -- Food in Olden Times / Carlin, Patrick -- Collection of Prayers / Menamin, Eileen Mac -- Bogslide / Doherty, Maureen -- Mass in Donaghmore / Kane, Hugh O' -- Tracing Irishisms in the Planted Finn Valley / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Is the Ice-Box or Refrigerator a Modern Invention? / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- What Old Tombstones Tell us / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Here are the two principal Roman Catholic Churches of this parish. / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Caisleán na Finne - Castlefin / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Gentry Bushes / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Mortland's Fort / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- In the Days of the Bridle Paths / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Donaghmore Protestant Church / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Coill na gCuiridin - Killygordon / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- O'Donnell Castle, Killygordon / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Interesting Life Story by Patrick Kelly Ballyarrel Born July 19th 1853 / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- James Mc Loughlin, Tievebrack, Poet, The Counsellor / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Map of Ireland 327 Years Ago / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Local Forts and How to Find Them / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- In the Days when Corn was Ground into Oaten Meal in Every Home and People Lived on Oat Cake and Brochan / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Bella Brooks / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Charley Harper's Old Cow / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Killeter Fair / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Romance of Con Tinney / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Gray Stone on the Heath / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Wild Raparee / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Daniel McDonald and the Fairies / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Rector's Ride / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Springtime / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Tillers of the Soil / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- What Will the Next Move Be? / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Take Off Your Hat to the Doctor! / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Broad, Broad Way / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Ballyláimhláidiraboo / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- McGowan's Bean Sí / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Tricolour / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- When the rooks are flying homewards, and the evening shadows come ... / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- In the Days of Yeomanry / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- The above is a facsimile of a Tithe receipt in the possession of Miss Rose A. Gallen / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Rate Receipts of the Famine Years / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Broken single-edged sword. / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- "Tallion" Iron for ironing old women's caps. / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Hundred Years Ago! / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Hundred and Thirty-Eight Years Ago / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Almost Two Hundred Years Ago / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- Old Coins / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac -- This Indenture made the 10th Day of April in the year of our Lord God... / Congáile, Donnachadh E. Mac
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.