DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4742071
title: Cnoc an Doire (C.)

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Cnoc an Doire (C.) (school) (Knockaderry, Co. Kerry), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Nóra Ní Chorcoráin.
description: The old people believed that one should never plough a fort. / Brosnan, Sheila -- There were two brother's living together long ago, one of them was Jack and the other was Paddy... / Brosnan, Sheila -- One day a woman called her husband to his dinner. / Fitzgerald, Nora -- Long ago a farmer had six or seven cows. / Brosnan, Sheila -- How Killeagh Got Its Name / Keane, Bridie -- One morning a woman in Killeagh was making a barrel. / Keane, Bridie -- There is a fort on both sides of the road from Killeagh to Currans. / Griffin, Margaret -- Many years ago there lived in the neighbourhood of Killeagh a farmer by the name of Burke. / Keane, Bridie -- There was once a monastery in Ardcrone. / Keeffe, Mary O' -- Rosanean means the castle of the birds but I suppose rather the home of the birds. / Broderick, Bridie -- Gortshanavagh mean the field of the heifer. / Broderick, Bridie -- There lived in the parish of Firies long ago a man named Flynn. / Burke, Peggie -- One night a boy named Jack Scott was coming home from town and it was twelve o'clock the dead hour of the night. / Corcoran, Maureen -- A man was coming from Killarney one night about 12 o'clock. / Keane, Bridie -- Lady Dowger was a very old lady and while she lived she led a very bad life. / Brosnan, Sheila -- One day two little boys went gathering nuts. / Fitzgerald, Nora -- Once upon a time there lived a smith in Currans. / Keane, Bridie -- There was a man from upper Killeagh named John De Lacy. -- Why Ash Wednesday Was Called Puss Wednesday -- Once a lunatic was sitting on the wall of the mental Hospital. / Fitzgerald, Nora -- A man came home drunk one night and his wife began to scold him. / Fitzgerald, Nora -- A boy and his mother lived in a house together. / Brosnan, Sheila -- There was once an old man whose was dead. His daughter was in America. / Brosnan, Sheila -- Long ago there was an old woman who never threw out the feet-water. / Burke, Peggie -- There were two Galway boys in England one time in the Customs. / Corcoran, Kathleen -- There was a man coming from a funeral one night and it was dark. -- A few years ago when tourists were moving around Killarney in jaunting-cars. The jarveys had some stories for them. -- There is a fort in Killeagh and another in Boulicullane. / Keane, Bridie -- A man was passing a graveyard one night. -- One night a man was coming from work about twelve o clock. -- A man once had a fort in his field and he tilled the field. -- In olden times there used to be spirits seen. -- In olden times there lived a rich farmer and close by there lived a poor woman who was not able to buy any milk. / Sullivan, Bridie -- There was a man living near Firies Village long ago and one night he was called that the cows were in the garden. -- There is a fort in a field not far from our house. -- There is a fort in a field not far from our house.
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.