DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4922223
title: Dún Drongáin (B.)

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Dún Drongáin (B.) (school) (Drangan, Co. Tipperary), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Diarmuid Ó Gormáin.
description: Áit Seo -- Clog Teana -- Magh Gabhraí -- Baile Nua -- Michael Cusack / Horan, Pat -- Bishop Butler / Gleeson, John -- Cahill's Bridge / Halloran, Eamonn O -- Tadhg Ó Meachair / Garry, Michael Mc -- Ruins of Churches Around Drangan / Hall, Michael -- Place Names in the Locality -- Riddles -- Old Cures -- Burning of the Woman -- Maggie Drew told me that one night a man was playing cards in a house in Lismoyna with a lot of other men. -- There is a hollow in Michael Hall's field Magowry about twenty yards from the church -- Old Castle -- There did a man by the name of Reid live in a castle in Modeshil. -- In former times Magoury was a parish an Monks lived there. -- A long time ago when the Monks were in Magoury one Monk named Declan had a habit of reading his Office under a certain tree. -- There is an old story about Gleann na Muice Duibe bridge. -- Tom Phelan was a great weight-thrower. -- The house in which Rev Father Moloney curate of Mullinahone lives in -- Local Beliefs about the Weather -- Folklore -- In Priestown cave there are a lot of little rooms -- Proverbs -- Folklore -- Folklore -- Way to Make a Crib -- Local Poet -- Exile -- Red Blood of Ireland Flows in England (Rossa's Prison Life) -- Slievenamon - A Tale -- Halloween -- Slievenamon -- Local Poet -- Local Poet -- Moonlight on Slievenamon -- Irish Volunteers in 1913-14 -- Boys who Fight -- Cloneen (The Meeting of the Bright Boys) -- Reverie - 1912 -- Ancient Monument -- Ballylusky -- Ballylusky -- Shanakyle -- Sparrow's Fort -- Roads -- Old Sayings -- Relief Scheme in Famine Times -- Story -- Story -- Story -- Folklore -- Story -- Story -- Carrigshock of Tipperary -- Banning of the Song Cailín Deas Crúite na mBó in this Parish -- Ghost Story? -- Roads -- William Quirk, Hedge-Schoolmaster -- Another hedge schoolmaster lived at the Rookery -- Another was named Jeremiah Dunne -- Poor Scholar -- Hidden Gold -- Old Roads -- Holy Wells -- There is a lake in the Galtee mountains called Muscree and there is a tradition in the Glen of Aherlow that the last snake St Patrick banished -- It is said that Cromwell when he was coming from Clonmel to Kilkenny went down the Magoury boreen. -- Story Told Locally -- Lios na bhFeart -- My mother told me a story about a woman that lived up in Donovan's old house. -- One morning years ago my Great-Grandmother was going milking a goat -- Some of Colmcille's prophesies are that before the end of the world -- Old Customs -- Headless Coach -- My father told me a story about one of Cromwell's men -- Long ago a woman's spirit was going around. She was called Petticoat Loose. -- One night whenMickey Drewe was going by Lane's hill he saw a bed on the top of the hill + a dead man in it. -- One night a man was going home and he found a boheenta's comb. / #missing, -- It is said that the banshee follows -- There was a man of the Cahil's. -- Child's Impressions of Charles Kickham on the Occasion of his Visit to Drangan Convent about the Year 1875 -- Martley - A Thorn in the Side of the Ascendancy Party -- Roads -- Old Church -- Oldest Families -- Bosheen Jones -- Old Churches -- Tadhg Ó Meachair -- Mill -- Earl of Glengall -- Old Mill -- Roads -- Cromwell's Army -- Coolguill -- Fanning's Castle -- Famine Times -- Underground Walled Compartment -- Rogation Superstition -- Hidden Gold -- Birds -- There was a man by the name of Martin Costello living in Capnagrawn and he used to be able to do a lot of tricks. -- Martin Costello was going through a garden one day and there were two men cutting corn with hooks. -- I heard this story from Pierce Phelan Priestown. -- This School (Drangan Boys') was used as the Parish Church until the present church was built in 1863. -- Conscription -- Coolquill Castle -- Knockinglass -- Donovan's Fort -- Old Church -- Near this old church there is a Big House. -- Kilbranor Church -- Graystown Castle Near Killenaule -- Near the village of Moyglass is to be seen the ruins of a church. -- Bishop's House in Shangarry -- Before Fr. Fox built the church in Drangan (now the national school) -- Slievenamon -- Poet -- Drangan River
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.