DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4922122
title: Tír-Dhá-Ghlas (Terryglass)

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Tír-Dhá-Ghlas (Terryglass) (school) (Terryglass, Co. Tipperary), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Seán Ó Gliasáin.
description: List of Irish Words and Phrases Adopted into the Living English Speech of the Galltacht -- Historic - Local Traditions Regarding Danes -- When the Danes had well established themselves in Ireland they kept a large fleet of boats on Lough Derg. -- What was the ruling Irish family or clan in the district before the establishment of the English power there. -- Local Traditions of Historic Personages or Events Since the Coming of the English -- Brennan on the Moor -- Brennan on the Moor (another version) -- Michael Hawkins was a Rapparee of Tipperary in the early part of the 19th century. -- A priest-hunting event occurred about the same time as the above one in Roscrea, where there lived a priest who had eluded capture. -- United Irishman -- Terries -- During the time of the Terries there lived in Finnoe, Borrisokane, a landlord named Walter, who was notorious as an evictor and hunter of the Catholics of the land. -- About 100 years ago the lived in Kylanoe a family named Reid... -- A man named Pat Nolan lived in Firmount, Carrigahorig at the time of the Terries. -- There lived in this district well over a hundred yers ago a Terry named Darby Hogan. -- Some Traditions of Penal Days -- Penal Days -- Penal Days -- Local Traditions of Famine Period -- Local Traditions of Famine Period -- Local Traditions of the Famine Period -- Local Traditions of the Famine Period -- Local Traditions of the Famine Period -- Names of Landlords -- Names of Landlords -- Names of Landlords -- A family named Barry lived at a place in Terryglass now called Barryhill. -- About eighty years ago there lived in the townsland of Ashgrove, Terryglass a family named Talbot. -- Near the present churchyard there lived a man named Donoghue who owned a fine house, which was built near the chuchyard gate. -- In Ashgrove Lodge lived a man named Tierney. -- There were about sixty families in all evicted by this cruel Thomas Talbot. -- Synge Evictions -- Synge, the landlord of Slevoyre, often tried cunning methods to dispossess farmers of their holdings. -- The estate of Garrownaglogh, Terryglass had fallen into debt about the year 1845... -- Anything that is Remembered of Plantations in the District -- Faction Fights -- Faction Fights -- Traditional Sports Centres for Horse-Racing -- Nicknames - Personal and Family -- Nicknames - Personal and Family -- Sites of Historic Interest, Mass Rocks, Battlefields -- Sites of Historic Interest, Mass Rocks, Battlefields -- Sites of Historic Interest, Mass Rocks, Battlefields -- About forty years ago as workmen were engaged in digging operations in the Greenane near St.Columba's well human bones were dug up. -- Battlefields -- In May 1934 the revered relic of St. Columba was removed from it's resting place in the school yard. / Gliasáin, Seán Ó -- Mass Rocks, Churches / Gleeson, Seán -- Ancient Roads Trade and Commerce of Locality Long Ago -- A very ancient road, supposed to have been used by the monks of Terryglass.... -- Traditions of Local Industries that have Disappeared -- Traditions of Local Industries that have Disappeared -- Traditions of Local Industries that have Disappeared -- Traditions of Local Industries that have Disappeared -- Names and Descriptions of Old Furniture Now No Longer Made -- Names and Descriptions of Old Furniture Now No Longer Made -- Names and Descriptions of Old Furniture Now No Longer Made -- Topographic -- Social -- Food Formerly Used on Ceremonial Occasions / Sammon, Mrs -- Recollections of Local Hedge-Schools -- Recollections of Local Hedge-Schools -- List of Successive Managers of the Present National Schools as Far Back as Memory Goes -- List of the Principals of the School -- Religious -- Religious -- St Augh's Well -- A young girl from Co. Galway came to St. Augh's well to perform the rounds. -- The eye-well was covered in by a Protestant-Minister some seventy years ago. -- Some eighty years ago boat loads of pilgrims used be seen coming across Lough Derg.... -- About the beginning of the eighteenth century a man named Patrick Griffin owned the field.... -- St. Ruadhan, founder of the monastery of Lorrha, never refused anything for the love of God. -- Ancient ceremonial customs have practically died out in the district. -- On the last day of Shrove - Shrove Tuesday - pancakes are made and the younger generation has... -- On the Eve of All Souls Day candles are lighted on the windows which are left.... -- The local graveyard is ancient, it adjorns the ancient monastic buildings and even the monks' oratory.... -- There are no inscriptions in the Irish language or even the oldest tombstones in the graveyard. -- Six of the oldest dated tombstones in the local graveyard. -- Archaeological -- People usually regard forts with supernatural fear.... -- Traces and Survivals of Pagan Religious Customs - Beliefs in Omens and Accidents -- Wake and Funeral Customs -- Wake Games -- When Was Keening at Funerals Discontinued in the District -- Belief in Fairies - Fairy Legends -- A priest on a sick call one night had to pass by the churchyard of Terryglass. -- A servant maid who lived at Gortalougha House, Ballinderry was drowned in the Shannon at Gortalougha Bay. -- There is an old fort in Firmount, Carrigahorig... -- About sixty or seventy years ago there lived in Ryehill, Ballinderry a man nick-named "Johnny the Neighbour." -- The belief in fairies still exists among the older generations of people, but with the rising generation the belief is gradually dying out. / Gliasáin, Seán Ó -- Belief in Water-Horses, Water-Bulls -- Songs, Rhymes and Other Items Collected from Old People who had Interesting Things to Say About Parishes Outside Terryglass -- Story -- Gob, mouth; Móingé, fibrous, bad turf...
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.