DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5008968
title: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór (school) (Kells, Co. Meath), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Siúracha na Trócaire.
description: Funny Story / Aughy, Mary -- Old Story / Aughy, Mary -- Funny Story / Mullen, Bertha -- Big Wind 1839 / Stone, Teresa -- Night of the Big Wind / Smith, Rose -- On the Night of the Big Wind / Donnelly, Eileen -- More about the Big Wind / Mullen, Bertha -- Another Story about the Big Wind / Clarke, Madeline -- Riddles / Myles, Nano -- My Home District / Kiernan, Peggy -- Old Story / Maguire, Cecilia -- Funny Story / Maguire, Cecilia -- Saint Columba's First Visit to Kells / Myles, Nano -- Bective Street / Donnelly, Eileen -- Canon Street / Govern, Mollie Mc -- St Columba's House / Grimes, Ellie -- Funny Story / Morris, Teresa -- Funny Story / Heary, Christina -- My Home District / Tevlin, Josie -- Big Wind / Aughey, Mary -- Funny Story / Reilly, Eileen -- Weather-Lore / Maguire, Cecilia -- Lone Bush / Smith, Bridget -- St Kieran's Well / Loughlin, Minnie Mc -- St Columba's Well / Grath, Connie Mc -- Weather-Lore / Usher, Philomena -- Weather-Lore / Kiernan, Peggy -- More Weather-Lore -- Food in Olden Times / Costello, Sheila -- Food in Olden Times / Farrelly, Annie -- Food in Olden Times / Kiernan, Peggy -- Food in Olden Times / Morris, Teresa -- Lore of Certain Days / Marmion, Mary -- Sneezing / Stone, Teresa -- Lucky and Unlucky Days / Maguire, Cecilia -- Lore of Certain Days / Kiernan, Peggy -- Lore of Certain Days / Aughey, Mary -- Lore of Certain Days / Farrelly, Annie -- Lore of Certain Days -- Lore of Certain Days - The Priest's Shirt / Marmion, Mary -- Lore of Certain Days / Marmion, Mary -- Lore of Certain Days / Mullen, Bertha -- Lore of Certain Days / Hennessy, Ellie -- Lore of Certain Days / Stone, Teresa -- Lore of Certain Days / Donnelly, Eileen -- Lore of Certain Days - Candlemas Day / Entegart, Gertie Mc -- Lore of Certain Days / Morris, Lizzie -- True Story / Healy, Nellie -- Tree Story / Rogers, Bridie -- A Prayer to the Angel Guardian / Mhaolmhuire, Áine Ní -- True Story / OWens, Philomena -- Collection of Prayers / Usher, Philomena -- Collection of Prayers / Kiernan, Peggy -- Collection of Prayers / Stone, Teresa -- Prayers / Costello, Sheila -- Prayers / Heary, Christina -- Prayers / Marmion, Mary -- Prayers / Lacy, Nancy -- Prayers / Myles, Nano -- Prayers / Donnelly, Eileen -- Prayers / Grimes, Ellie -- Prayers / Clarke, Madeline -- Kells Castle / Myles, Nano -- Local Ruins - Kells Castle / Smith, Bernadette -- Kells Castle / Smith, Rose -- Round Tower of Kells / Kiernan, Peggy -- Round Tower of Kells / Stone, Teresa -- Round Tower of Kells / Donnelly, Eileen -- Local Ruins / Kiernan, Peggy -- Old Schools / Costello, Sheila -- Old Schools / Grimes, Ellie -- Old Schools / Marmion, Mary -- Old Schools / Kiernan, Peggy -- Old Schools / Aughy, Mary -- Tinker's Corner / Gogarty, Kathleen -- On the Cookstown Road / Fitzsimons, May -- Man in Black -- Church Tower -- Old Festivals -- Old Crafts / Mullen, Bertha -- Old Stone Crosses in Kells / Grimes, Ellie -- Cross of Kells / Marmion, Mary -- Old Stone Crosses / Myles, Nano -- Kells in Pagan Times / Lacy, Nancy -- Kells in Pagan Times / Stone, Teresa -- Mullaghea Church Bell / Brady, Annie -- Lost His Bet but Kept His Word / Kiernan, Peggy -- How the Marquis of Headfort Befriended a Priest / Sheerin, Kathleen -- Incident of September 1798 / Brady, Annie -- Another Story about Archbishop Hugh de Lacy / Donnelly, Eileen -- Local Cures / Brady, Annie -- Local Cures / Kiernan, Peggy -- Local Cures / Farrelly, Maggie -- Local Cures / Hennessy, Ellie -- Local Cures / Geraghty, Teresa -- Cures -- Old Cures -- Distinguished Men who Visited Kells in Bygone Days -- Old Crafts / Brady, Annie -- Old Crafts / Grimes, Ellie -- Chandlery in Market Street / Myles, Nano -- Sawmills / Stone, Teresa -- Old Crafts in Kells / Sheerin, Kathleen -- Old Crafts / Aughey, Mary -- Our Blessed Lady and the Rushes / Govern, Mollie Mc -- Old Crafts / Grimes, Ellie -- Festival Customs / Kiernan, Peggy -- Festival Customs / Sheerin, Kathleen -- Festival Customs / Aughey, Mary -- Festival Customs / Farrelly, Annie -- Festival Customs / Usher, Philomena -- Festival Customs / Geraghty, Teresa -- Festival Customs / Grimes, Ellie -- Festival Customs / Farrelly, Maggie -- Festival Customs / Marmion, Mary -- Festival Customs / Morris, Teresa -- Festival Customs / Brady, Annie -- Wool and Flannel / Usher, Philomena -- Old Catholic Church of Kells / Usher, Philomena -- Straying Sod / Usher, Philomena -- Barne's Mansion / Usher, Philomena -- Triangle / Usher, Philomena -- St Patrick in Co. Meath / Morris, Teresa -- Old Graveyards / Aughy, Mary -- Hidden Treasure / Stone, Teresa -- Little Bit of Folklore / Hickey, Sylvia -- St Patrick's Bell / Marmion, Mary -- It was supposed that whoever took water first from a common well on May morning took at the same time the butter from all the people's churns who used that same well. / Morris, Teresa -- A man walking in his field one day found himself getting entangled in something. / Hickey, Sylvia -- Cromwell's Mansion / Lacy, Nancy -- Maigh Bolg Church / Marmion, Mary -- Prophecies of St Columba / Stone, Teresa -- Kells in Cromwell's Time / Myles, Nano -- Setting Charms on May Eve / Usher, Philomena -- Kells in Cromwell's Time / Usher, Philomena -- Loughan Lea Mountain / Stone, Teresa -- Saint Bridget / Kiernan, Peggy -- Legend of Glendalough / Brady, Annie -- Our Lady's Well / Hickey, Sylvia -- Saint Columba and Saint Kieran / Myles, Nano -- Saint Colmcille's Well / Smith, Bernadette -- Proverbs / D'arcy, Angela -- Bratach Brigid -- Unbaptised Child -- Old Wells / Aughy, Mary -- Lore of Funerals / Heary, Christina -- Lore about the Corncrake / Reilly, Maureen O' -- Old Wells / Costello, Sheila -- Proverbs / Marmion, Mary -- Local Hero / Mullen, Bertha -- More about Ambrose Quinn / Heary, Christina -- Sacred Trees / Kiernan, Peggie -- Mrs Rowley / Sheerin, Kathleen -- After the Marriage Ceremony / Grimes, Ellen -- Mass Paths / Govern, Mollie Mac -- Priest's Room / Smith, Bernadette -- St Kieran's Well / Donnelly, Eileen -- Lore about Carlanstown / Thornton, Josephine -- Care of the Feet / Mullen, Bertha -- Story of a Fort / Geraghty, Teresa -- Old Forts / Lacy, Nancy -- Hauling Home / Lacy, Nancy -- Night of the Big Wind / Marmion, Mary
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.