DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4758472
title: Drummullan

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Drummullan (school) (Drummullin, Co. Roscommon), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Séamus Mac Oirealla.
description: Once there lived a rat and a weasel in a bog. The rat thought if he could kill the weasel he would have the whole bog to himself and the weasel thought the same thing... / Gormley, James -- Once I heard a story from a man who dreamed of a pot of gold which was supposed to be hidden in the ruins of an old castle beside a lake... / Gormley, James -- One day long ago two men went to cut meadow with scythes. They cut away for a while until they came to a weasel's nest where there were four young weasels... / Gormley, James -- Once there lived a man named Michael James in Roscommon. He was in great need of money, as he had a big family to rear... / Gormley, James -- Once two men went away to look for work. They walked until their shoes were worn to the uppers, and they were very hungary but could find no work... / Gormley, James -- Once two men went over to England in search of work. They got no work the first day and the night fell on them, they had no place to sleep... / Gormley, James -- Once a boy fell in with two robbers. Now there lived near those robbers a man who was very rich... / Gormley, James -- A number of years ago an old witch that was called Jenny of the Hills, lived on one of the Cregga hills in the parish of Kiltrustan in the Co Roscommon... / Gormley, James -- Once upon a time there lived a robber in the parish of Kiltrustan in the Co Roscommon named Pat O Hare... / Gormley, James -- Once there lived a woman in Carrowkeel named Biddy Elwood in the parish of Creeve in the Co Roscommon who had a lot of butter... / Gormley, James -- Once there lived a man and his wife in Clooneybrennan in the parish of Elphin in the Co Roscommon who had a good many cows and supplied a good many people in the town with butter... / Gormley, James -- Cure / Gormley, James -- Cure of a Mad Dog's Bite / Gormley, James -- Lone Bush / Gormley, James -- Once there were hunters hunting on the Creeve hills in the Co Roscommon. All the dogs ran after a hare... / Gormley, James -- Once a caretaker of a Protestant Church tied a goat in the Church. He went and told the parson that the devil was in the Church... / Gormley, James -- One night a man named Thomas Dowd of Cummeen Elphin in the Co Roscommon was coming home from a dance. It was very late and he had to go through the fields... / Gormley, James -- Once upon James Gormley of Cummeen Elphin in the Co Roscommon dreamed of a hidden treasure. The treasure was supposed to be a pot of gold... / Gormley, James -- A number of years ago just after Frank Mc Govern setting up in Creeve in Co Roscommon. He had the shop stocked with everything that could be in a shop... / Gormley, James -- One day James Mac Glynn was turning a heap of potatoes in his garden at Creeve in the Co Roscommon... / Gormley, James -- Once I heard of a funny trick that happened at a dance. There was a fellow named John Mac Gowan who the ladies didn't like at dances... / Gormley, James -- Once upon a time there lived a woman named Bridget Dowd in Cummeen in the Co Roscommon... / Gormley, James -- There was once a man named Peter Diffley of Tanseyfield in the Co Roscommon. One night he was going home from rambling he saw a strange dog at Clonnahee gatehouse... -- Hidden Treasure -- Signs of the Weather -- Local Hero -- Riddles / Gormley, James -- Riddles / Hayden, Bernard -- Riddles / Cormack, John Joe Mc -- Riddles / Greene, Toney -- There was once a man named Joe Keenan who lived in a bog called Dooneen Creeve... / Gormley, James -- There was once a named Peter Oates of Cummeen in the parish of Elphin. He was very fond of drink... -- Great Walkers / Gormley, James -- Great Storm / Gormley, James -- Once I heard that a man named Michael Murray of Kye Elphin used to give turnips to sheep to eat... / Gormley, James -- Once a man named Thomas Beirne of Clooneycattan Elphin had an orchard. Some good boys said that the would raid it some night... / Gormley, James -- Once I heard that a young man named John Mac Gowan of Creeve Elphin was left minding the house... / Gormley, James -- One night a man named James Gormley was set astray. He was coming home from rambling... / Gormley, James -- Once upon a time a woman named Biddy Hopkins lived in Cummeen Elphin. She used to sell buttermilk... / Gormley, James -- Once upon a time James Flynn of Cummeen Elphin went cutting a lone-bush for fire wood... / Gormley, James -- Once upon a time two children were out walking... -- One May morning a man named Patrick Tiernan of Cummeen Elphin was out in his field. He saw a woman going towards his cows... -- Once upon a time Brian Dowd of Cummeen Elphin dreamed of a pot of gold which was supposed to be hidden in his own fort... -- Once upon a time a man named Jack Lenehan of Kye Elphin was supposed to be a great trainer of dogs... -- Once upon a time two boys went up the Cregga hills in the parish of Kiltrustan to hunt for rabbits.
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.