DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4713260
title: Gleann Fleisge

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Gleann Fleisge (school) (Glenflesk, Co. Kerry), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Donnchadh Ó Spiolláin.
description: How O Donoghue Cruig got the Name / Donoghue, Hanna O -- Geatairí Giúis / Donoghue, Darby O -- Curreal Bog / Donoghue, Hanna O -- Cure of the O'Donoghues / Donoghue, Michael O -- Taking Butter from Kerry to Cork in Olden Times / Kelly, Dan -- Killaha Barrack / Shine, Dan -- Talking Jackdaw / Donovan, Denis -- Sweeney and the Landlord / Donovan, Denis -- Lough Guitane Monster / Donoghue, Michael O -- Old House in Rusheen More / Byrne, John -- Wicked Herdsman / Healy, Florry -- Finghín na bPúcaí / Donoghue, Darby O -- Tobar na Naomh / Donoghue, Darby O -- Lough Guitane Monster / Spillane, Owen -- Reidy Seáin / Kelly, Con -- Tailor's Sons / Kelly, Dan -- Magic Bottle / Kelly, Dan -- Man and the Skull / Healy, Maureen -- An old woman went to visit her cousin. -- Man and the Skull / Casey, John -- Uncharitable Woman / Donoghue, Shelia O -- Crying Child / Donoghue, Shelia O -- Old Woman and the Goats / Donoghue, Shelia O -- Man and the Skull / Healy, Con M. H. -- Siobhain and Dómhnaillín / Murphy, Denis -- Song / Donoghue, Shelia O -- Nora na Gamhna / Donoghue, Darby O -- Fairies Path / Donoghue, Shelia O -- Lonely Road / Donovan, Denis -- Penitent / Donoghue, Shelia O -- Poor Widow / Donoghue, Michael O -- Purcell and the Fairy / Kelly, Con -- Fairy Fort / Donoghue, Rodger O -- Fairy Story / Kelly, Dan -- Story / Spillane, Owen -- Goat and Seven Kids / Spillane, Tim -- Lone Bush / Donoghue, Shelia O -- Mike Purcell and the Fairy Man / Courtney, Maurice -- Long ago there were fairies in a small fort owned by Counihans. / Spillane, Owen -- There was a tailor long ago and he had three sons and a goat. / Murphy, Denis -- Once there was a fairy, and she used to be seen at a kiln every morning very early. / Shine, Dan -- Once there was a crowd of people in a field they were walking around the field. / Donoghue, Bridie O -- Túirín na Céim / Donoghue, Michael -- Long ago there was a man digging a graveyard. / Donovan, Denis -- Once upon a time there lived a King and a Queen. / Donoghue, Shelia -- Fairy Shoemaker -- There was once a king that had a lot of gold and he wished to have more. / Warren, Pat -- There was a man coming back the road one night with a horse and car. -- There were people living in the middle of a bog. / Shine, Dan -- We have a fairy field at home. / Healy, Denis -- There was a man walking along the road one night. / Donovan, Denis -- There was a fairy there long ago and he was called the Lepracán. / Donoghue, Darby O -- Once upon a time there was a monster worm living in Loughquittane Lake. / Spillane, Owen -- Kiln / Spillane, Owen -- Once upon a time there lived a man a woman and their only son in a small thatched house. / Leary, John -- Dawning of the Day -- It was in September I well remember three noble heroes to Manchester came. -- There was a devil and a man long ago. / Leary, John -- There was a certain man from Tipperary. / Donoghue, Michael -- Story -- There was a servant girl one time and she worked for a rich hard-hearted woman who never gave charity to anyone. / Shine, Anne -- There is a place in Rathmore called the city. / Donoghue, Nellie -- Ar maidean luat is mo feudil mo stric na seolad cun an féir seo do duille dom i stuirre sil agus i dunaracht sa géib. -- Clydagh Flood -- O Donoghue of the Glen / Donoghue, Michael O -- Killaha Rounds / Donoghue, Nellie O -- Muckross Abbey / Spillane, Owen -- Fort / Spillane, Owen -- Tobar na Naomh / Kelly, Con -- Small Woman and the Meal / Donoghue, Michael O -- There was a King in England long ago and he had a daughter. / Donovan, Denis -- I am a young man that ran out of my land and mains. / Donoghue, Michael O -- La ga rabhas i gleann i maonar ag féach go treid agus mo conluim taoibh I spied a damsel most handsome features and she dressed most gaily beyond all queens. / Donoghue, Michael O -- There was a man by the name of Jack Shea living in a house in one of our fields and he left his house and went to America with his wife and children and after a while the house fell and the ruins are there yet and it is called Jack Shea'd haggart. / Donoghue, Michael O -- My Little Grey Home in the West -- Marcach an Chúil Chraobhaigh / Kelly, Dan -- Banks of the Suir / Kelly, Dan -- Lucey Boot / Donoghue, Darby -- A Wicked Landlord -- Story / Spillane, Owen -- Donalleen and Siobhain / Donoghue, Hanna -- Sheep and the Friars / Murcadha, Donnchadh Ó -- Haunted Castle / Hayes, Michael -- Old Woman of Lough Guitane / Spillane, Owen -- There lived a woman in Crosstown long ago. / Donoghue, Michael O -- Páirc an Phoill / Donoghue, Michael -- Jackie the Lantern / Donoghue, Michael O -- Fairy Story / Donoghue, Rodger O -- Story / Byrne, Margaret -- Story / Donoghue, Maureen Ó -- Story / Healy, Maureen -- Story / Murphy, Denis -- Story / Shine, Dan -- Story / Courtney, Nellie -- Story / Murphy, Denis -- Story / Byrnes, Kathleen -- Story / Donoghue, Darby O -- Andy Ragann / Donoghue, Timothy -- Fairy Story - The Kiln / Spillane, Domnick
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.