DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4613671
title: Gort na Díogha

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Gort na Díogha (school) (Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Séamus Ó Dochartaigh.
description: Scéal -- Place Names in School District Collected by Children -- Closing of Tuam Bank -- Riddle -- Old Roads -- Rhyme -- Scéal -- Scéal Eile -- In Connection with Births - Pegg Treena -- Building -- Rhyme -- Prayers and Rhymes / Burke, Julia -- Prayer -- Belief -- A Rhyme By a Young Man on Death of His Mother -- Prayer -- William Healy -- Another Rhyme -- Bogs of Alee -- Dlaoi (Draoi) -- Scéal -- Marriages -- Weddings -- Runaway Marriages -- Scéal Eile -- Funerals -- Rush Candles for Twelfth Night -- May Day -- Churning -- Butter -- Churning -- Churning -- Old Rhyme -- Shoe Polish -- Illness, Death, Funerals Etc. -- Illness, Death, Funerals Etc. -- Crann Soilse -- Feile Brígid a Bricín -- Once upon a time there was a woman of the name of Biddy Morearity living in Dublin. -- Lough Lurgeen -- St Brigid's Night -- The Man and Horses -- Nest of Swans -- Cow -- Shoes -- Cures -- Pishrogues -- Beggars -- John Saxon lived in Kilkerrrin parish he used to come to Moher... -- Go raibh sliocht agus sleacht ar do shliocht... -- Is iomhdha fear luathar láidir indiu... -- Signs of Rain -- Schools -- Candles -- Tea -- Work -- Schools -- Mass in Gloon -- Grinding Meal -- Old Sayings -- Trades -- Scéal Eile -- Kilkerrin -- Billy's Road -- Dances of Old Ireland -- Four Last Ends of Four Different Things -- Four Things to Avoid -- Bible Men -- Marcus Hickee -- When the French Came into Killala -- Glynsk Castle -- Card-Playing -- Card-Playing -- Child in the Fairies -- Scéal Eile -- Tinkers' Hotel -- Dan O'Connell and His Hat -- Cough Cure -- Soldier's Trick -- Swapped Babies -- The Woman at the Jail Gate -- Vet -- Scéal Eile -- Irishman -- Funeral at Midnight -- Paddy Noone's father was John Noone, and he was at a funeral in Kilkerrin the 6th January. -- Charm -- Dan O'Connell and the Pig Jobber -- Mick Dowd the Butcher -- Butcher -- Foods -- Workhouse of Glennamaddy -- Homes of Long Ago -- Hedge-Schools -- Story -- Burkes of Glynsk Castle -- Bóthar Buí -- Cigarettes -- Flour -- Tea and Sugar -- Meals -- Oatmeal -- Famine -- Cuts -- Burns -- Resin Candles -- Grisset -- Haunted House -- Parson -- Story -- Scéal Eile -- Leather -- Biddy Pound on a Pig -- Houses -- Puddings -- Gobán -- Roof -- Bun Duileáin -- Lack Haddican -- Landlords - Pollock -- Policeman Shot in Fartown, Creggs -- We were bigger than Mick (who is fourteen years) before we got a trousers. -- Scéal -- Scéal -- Riddle -- Riddle -- Story -- Parson -- Johnny the Sugar Stick Man -- The Lord's Prayer -- Hail Mary -- Apostles Creed -- Months of Year in Irish -- Oíche Sin Seáin -- Blacksmith -- Scéal -- Cobin's Well -- Haw year bréag year... -- Fox and a Goose and a Sheave of Oats -- Poem from Tom Brennan -- It is not right to let fire or milk out of a house, especially milk without water... -- New Year -- Pigs -- Worms in Cattle -- Plough -- When you see the first lamb of the season... -- I saw a man take a spade, go into his garden and take a fist of clay into the house where a corpse was about to be coffined... -- Tom Hegarty says I saw his house in Manchester -- Bishop Kelly -- Friaryland, Gort na Cealtra, Sgeicheach na mBruacaí (badges)... -- Sister Lakes -- Cailleach Bhéarach -- Iron Mill in Creggs -- Graveyard -- Three Oaths Money Took When First Made -- Three Hounds Meeting -- Trí Bhua an Druncaera -- Trí Bhua an Fhir Shona -- A Cat Four Gifts -- Glasnach -- Lough Over -- Lavally Lake -- Prayer after Meals -- Athlone -- Seanmhóin - Na Mionna Móra -- Pedlar and the Tailor
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.