DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4428332
title: Tulach Mór

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from An Tulach Mór (school) (Tully More, Co. Donegal), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Máire, Bean Uí Bhrisleáin.
description: Seanscéaltaí / Bhreisleáin, Máire Bean Uí -- Labhraidh Luirc / Bhresleáin, Máire Bean Uí -- Seanscéal / Bhreisleáin, Máire Bean Uí -- Linguistic - Seantomhais / Bhreisleáin, Máire Bean Uí -- Rann / Dhorrian, Cáit Ní -- Ranna / Bhreisleáin, Máire Bean Uí -- Ranna / Chraith, Maighread Ní -- Seanamhrán - Bás Phádraig Uí Ghuidhir / Bhrisleáin, Máire Bean Uí -- Éanlaithe / Bhreisleáin, Máire Bean Uí -- Mo Dhómhnall Óg (Danny Boy) / Bhreisleáin, Máire Bean Uí -- Ranna agus Seanscéal Grinn / Niallghuis, Sorcha Nic -- Seanscéaltaí / Niallghuis, Sorcha Nic -- Seanscéal / Mheallaigh, Anna Ní -- Seanscéal - Mullán an Tighe Mhóir / Niallghúis, Máire Nic -- Local Estate / Bhreisleáin, Máire Bean Uí -- There was a boy one time down in Loughrous Point and his body was covered with evil. / Higgins, Theresa -- There was a landlord one time living in Bollowogs. He was very hard on the Catholics and he wanted to put them out of their homes...... / Higgins, Theresa -- Famine Period / Melley, Teresa -- Famine Period / Bhreisleáin, Máire Bean Uí -- Local Industries / Melley, Nan -- Local Industries / Nelis, Mary Ann Mc -- Local Industries - The Manufacture of Soap / Nelis, Mary Ann Mc -- Household Utensils Not Now in Use / Nelis, Mary Ann Mc -- Household Utensils Not Now in Use / Hugh, Eamon Mc -- Clothes / Hugh, Eamonn Mc -- Articles of Furniture Not Now in Use / Melley, Annie -- Household Utensils Used Long Ago / Breslin, M. A. -- Famous People / Breslin, M. A. -- Famous People / Dorrian, Sarah -- Famous People / Nelis, M. A. Mc -- Famous People / Grath, Maggie Mc -- Famous Athletes / Nelis, Mary A. Mc -- Great Swimmer / Nelis, Mary A. Mc -- Great Fighter / Nelis, Mary A. Mc -- Food - Boxty Bread / Melly, Nan -- Food - Sowens / Melly, Nan -- Cures / Melly, Thereasa -- Cures / Hugh, John Mc -- Cures / Aodh, Sean Mac -- Cures / Melly, Teresa -- Cures and Charms / Nelis, Mary Ann Mc -- Superstitions / Nelis, Mary Ann Mc -- Folklore Regarding the Weather / Nelis, Mary Ann Mc -- Signs of the Weather / Dorrian, Kathleen -- About forty-five years ago there lived in a a place called Killcashel a man named William Boyd. / Nelis, Mary Ann Mc -- Stories / Nelis, Mary A. Mc -- Belief in Fairies / Nelis, Mary A. Mc -- Long ago there lived in a place called Townawilly a man named James Boyle. / Nelis, Mary A. Mc -- Funny Story / Nelis, Mary Ann Mc -- Shipwrecks / Nelis, Mary A. Mc -- About ninety years ago there lived in Tullycleave Ardara Co. Donegal a man named Nathor Boyle with his sisters. / Nelis, Mary Ann -- Belief in Fairies / Nelis, Mary A. Mc -- Belief in Fairies / Melley, Nan -- Belief in Witches / Dorrian, Sarah -- Belief in Fairies / Dorrian, Sarah -- Belief in Fairies / Dorrian, Sarah -- Belief in Fairies / Dorrian, Sarah -- Belief in Fairies / Dorrian, Sarah -- Belief in Fairies etc. - Hidden Treasures / Melley, Teresa -- Hidden Treasure / Grath, Maggie Mc -- Danish Gold / Nelis, Mary A. Mc -- Hidden Treasure / Dorrian, Kathleen -- Belief in Fairies / Nelis, Mary Ann Mc -- Belief in Water-Horses / Dorrian, Kathleen -- Danish Gold - Fairy Treasures / Hugh, Patrick Mc -- Danish Gold - Fairy Treasures / Hugh, John Mc -- Danish Gold - Fairy Treasures / Aodh, Sean Mac -- One time there lived in Tullybeg a man called Condy O'Donnell, along with his sister Brigid. He was always challenging the devil to fight. / Nelis, Sarah Mc -- About sixty years ago a man named Willie Maxwell from Ardara was fishing at Lough McHugh which is a large lake in Tullymore..... / Grath, Maggie Mc -- One Halloweve night about sixty years ago five men - four of whom were the name of Sweeney and one named O'Donnell - were going to Ardara with firkins of butter to sell. / Carr, Mary A. -- There was a man one time who lived in Moolagh - a place a short distance west of Tullymore townland. / Carr, Mary A. -- There was once a king who lived in the Rosses, and he had two sons. / Carr, Mary Ann -- Folktales / Nelis, Sarah Mc -- Cures / Dorrian, Kathleen -- Cures / Grath, Maggie Mc -- Cures / Carr, Mary Ann -- Herbs / Melley, Theresa -- Superstitions / Melley, Nan -- There was a man one time named "Willie the Wisp" and he was a blacksmith. He gave himself up to the devil. / Hugh, Patrick Mc -- In old times it was a custom of the people to tie the thumbs and big toes of a person together when they would be dead. / Hugh, Patrick Mc -- One morning very early a man from Maghera was fishing in the Lougherous Point when he saw a mermaid sitting on a rock combing her hair. / Hugh, John Mc -- One day a number of men from Cairn were out at the bar for rack. / Hugh, John Mc -- One day St Colmcille was passing through Churchill and being very hungry he asked for some apples as apples were very plentiful in that place. / Nelis, Mary Ann Mc -- One day Saint Colmcille was crossing at a boathouse near Loughveagh castle. / Nelis, Mary Ann Mc -- St Colmcille / Higgins, Theresa -- St Colmcille / Dorrian, Kathleen -- Our Local Saint / Hugh, Sean Mc -- Our Local Saint / Melley, Annie -- Hedge-Schools & Master / Hugh, John Mc -- Famous People / Hugh, Eamond Mc -- Famous People / Dorrian, Sarah -- Customs - St Brigid's Eve / Hugh, John Mc -- Customs - St John's Eve / Hugh, John Mc -- There once lived in Maghera aged 20 years a woman named Nancy McHugh. / Hugh, Patrick John Mc -- There once lived in Kentucky a man named James M McHugh. / Hugh, Patrick Mc -- Old Guesses / Hugh, Patrick John Mc -- Herbs / Grath, Maggie Mc -- Herbs / Hugh, Eamon Mc -- Herbs and Weeds / Dorrian, Kathleen -- Herbs / Hugh, Eamon Mc -- Local Traditions / Hugh, John Mc -- Forts / Carr, Mary Ann -- Place Names in the Townland of Tullymore, Ardara, Co. Donegal / Carr, Mary Ann -- Place Names / Melly, Nan -- Place Names / Carr, Mary Ann -- Place Names / Dorrian, Sarah -- Irish Sayings and Phrases / Brisleáin, Máire Bean Uí -- Rann / Hugh, Mary A. Mc -- Rannta Eile / Nelis, Sarah Mc / Niallghuis, Sorcha Nic -- Seantomhasanna / Niallguis, Sorcha Nic
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.