DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4742085
title: Landsdowne (Cuar na gCoileach)

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Landsdowne (Cuar na gCoileach) (school) (Coornagillagh, Co. Kerry), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Eibhlín, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin.
description: On Sheen's green banks in days of old A dreadful fight was won. -- When a dormouse walks over a cow the animal gets crippled. -- In our neighbourhood in Tuosist about eighty or perhaps a hundred years ago... / Shuilleabháin, Eibhlín Uí -- To keep the fairies away from stealing or harming children the mothers washed them in "wine" and then the good people would not come near. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- "Comh Uasal gach fear ar muir"... / Shuilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- As A poor old Grandmother was dying she thought she had a very thin worn petticoat for the long journey... / Shuilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- An old workman Flor O' Sullivan long since dead told me 40 years ago... / Súilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- John Browne who told me about the shepherd boy on next page that an old miser and his wife had a dispute one Xmas night... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Not long since neighbouring man called to my house who had been absent from Mass the previous Sunday and I joked him about it. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- My Mother's Mother died young having a full of young orphans to my Mother's care she being the eldest of the family... / Súilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- In 1898 or 99 I happened to be in school in school in Carysfort Park, Blackrock, Co Dublin (the present Training College was not there now)... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- My Father asked me once did I know why the McGillycuddy Reeks were so called and this is his explanation whether it is tradition or booklore I don't know. / Shuilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- An old man named "Jer Owen" O' Sullivan lived in a townland near here about 50 years ago and the poor man died... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- An old lady near here but in bed at the moment ill told me this fairy story by request: / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- There is a certain herb growing which would cure a scale in the eye but shouldn't be plucked by human hand. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Without title / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- There are three Ogham stones in Gleninchaquin about four miles from the main road and a holy well... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- There is a kind of quarry near our school called Poul a Phúca and the old people said that a fairy woman was seen here in the bad times. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Anna Máthair Mhuire Muire Máthair Críost... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Five old women lived happily together long ago... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- The pig sees the new moon the first night... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Two women were minding my grandmother on her deathbed and in the middle of the night one stooped down to give her a drop of whiskey. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- A little pupil of mine went home from school as well as ever and did jobs like little ones in the country do in the evening. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- About eighty years ago or more a woman - one Mrs Shea of Ardgroom Castletown Bere, Co. Cork was married there... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- A man named Bernard Shea had a bakery in Kenmare long ago 70 years ago perhaps. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- One night this same labouring man was going to Castletown Bere fair withe his Master as was their want... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- If a pregnant woman crossed a path then the misfortune to see a hare or meet him worse again her child would be born with a harelip... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Everybody knows the sure for the croas galar is the gander;s bill into the mouth nine mornings (both fasting) and fir the whooping cough the ferret's leavings. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- If a cow has twin calves misfortune come to the house that year moreover if they are bull calves. / Shuilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- A man who lives in Drombohilly lost his wifr 9 or 10 years ago after giving birth to twin babies... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- At the Present Lake Hotel now (of course there was no hotel there then but a bóthan let to a dairy-man long since dead... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Mrs Palmer aged 85 now living in Upper Derrinid Tuosist but who has had great losses lately as Sean O'Sullivan will know... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Another event that happened to herself when she was about 12 years or so. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Her sister and herself were stretched on the seat waiting up for their Father who was very late in coming home and their Mother was in the bed in the room with the baby. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- We used be told at home not to get up early May morning or not to rise any smoke till the neighbours would all have their own smoke going first. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Mrs Moynahan Bonane dead for the past two years or so told this story to Ms S. O' Sullivan Derrinid, Tuosist on a certain night... / Shuilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Mrs O' Sullivan was married in Tuosist but her parents lived in the adjacent parish of Bonane. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- When Dan Riney John's (of Lehelaun) son Time was born his Grandfather after viewing the outside world said "that baby boy will comb grey hairs if he isn't very badly wronged". / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- When an animal dies of a contagious disease like blue-quarter... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Mrs S O' Sullivan Derrimid tells of a girl who was at school with herslef about sixty years ago now named Máire Bhán Ní Dhonacú... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Dan Riney says that there is a special place called Cill Micheal Óg north of the old church near the fence where stillborn babies of the parish are but these were also buried in the fields at home to my knowledge. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- "Gamhshnáth has passed into the daily life... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Chualadh mo máthair a rádh (beannact de le na h-anam) nauir a bhíodh an gearán céadna ag gabhail ag duine... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- If a girl marries in Advent she can visit her old home next day if she wishes and she can visit it everyday in Lent too. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Here in my own house my Mother-in-law R.I.P was ever so fond of using holy water for every pain and ache with as much devotion as Lourdes Water is used today. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- A certain man now dead called James Browne labourer who lived at Lohart of this parish was working with a widow all his life her in Lohart. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- We had once a servant maid here named Chris Casey... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Batt O' Sullivan says he was out late and early and he never saw anything... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Peter O'Shea Lake Hotel Clonee, Tuosist Kenmare is very fond of going out after nightfall... / Shuilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- When lamp oil was unknown about 60 or 70 years ago and when no candles were used in country districts except their own homemade ones... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Tóir / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- About 1899 or 1900 when in school in Carysfort Park already alluded to the death of a companion of ours took place suddenly... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Dan Downing Lohart Tuosist Kenmare always told and still relates the following story. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- In this district when a boat is made it is never launched in the day time fearing a woman might be on the road by those carrying the boat. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- No important work is done on Monday or journey started and if one must catch a boat or train by so doing he leaves his own home Sunday evening... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- A policeman home on leave shocked his Mother by shaving himself Monday... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- The seventh son in succession has a cure for erysipelas or mumps... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- An old woman now dead and a Grand Uncle's wife of my own had for neighbours a Lánamha Pósta... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- A son and daughter with their mothers and father lived in Lauragh, Tuosist and the mother died young. / Loinsigh, Maighréad Ní -- Dan Downing aged between 80 and 90 but still able to relate the stories of old says that one night when he was coming home... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Here is another school game of my young days... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Is amhlaidh a fuaireas an scéal seo ó bean Dhíarmuide Uí Shiúlleabháin... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- A Glenmore farmer was walking to the fair of Kenmare 23 of 24 miles distant... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- This old revered "Nana" of mine always said it was better to have one mass offered for your soul before death than three afterwards. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- "Flor Caoc" O Sullivan was a workman of my father's for years. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Once my Mother told him to bring her the Weekly Hearld from town... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- This Flor used to tell a story about a certain man who went into a chapel after night-fall to play and he fell asleep and never felt the doors being closed on him from the outside. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- My son had a habit of remaining up reading novels till the small hours of the morning... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Three young men - a son of my own, one Dan Shea from Glenmore and Peter Paul O' Sullivan of Clonee, Tuosist were sitting on the fence chatting at Clonee where two roads meet. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Leasainmneacha de Mhuintir Uí Shúilleabháin anso / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Mrs Moriarty's nephew died in Ardgroom at the time she told the story about 1822 or around that. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Child's Play / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Birth Marks / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- I happened to go into the Chapel House at Dauros recently and Mrs O'Shea (whom I thought hadn't a word to give to a crow) began talking... / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Cure for Sore Leg, Ringworm, Running Sore / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Tháinig na Bríanaig mor tímcheall ag fíadach gach rud a n-íarradar fuaireadar í... -- To show how "piseóga" still live here in Tuosist a man lost his second son and only one then and the neighbours immediately began to say within themselves that the Father brought the mí ad on himself... / Shuilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- The man in question is Patrick O'Sullivan, Bunaw. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Cure for Cough / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- For "an triuc" ferret's leavings are given to the child who suffers from whooping cough. / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Caisleán na Caillí / Sullivan, Helena O' -- Mo Cheantar Féin / Shúilleabháin, Eibhlín Bean Uí -- Sí Gleann-Ins a Cuín mo ceanntar dein agus áit áluinn locach choillteach iseadh í. / Loinghsigh, Maighréad Ní -- Filíocht / Shúilleabháin, Síle Ní -- Sí Lóthart an baile fearthainn go bhfuil cómhnuide orm agus sí Tuath Siosta mo paróiste dutchais atá suidthe sa bharúntacht Gleann Na Rúctaí... -- A woman lived in Cloherane about forty five years ago and her little daughter had a very sore knee. / Lynch, Margaret -- Another of my grandmothers is, who was bred and born in Glenmore, Tuosist. / Lynch, Margaret
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.