DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4493709
title: Sessiagh Uí Néill

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Sessiagh Uí Néill (school) (Sessiagh (O'Neill), Co. Donegal), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Liam Mac Meanman.
description: About fifty years ago it is said a certain field on Carrickmagrath was ploughed and the trees around it were cut. / Griffin, Lena -- There is a very old tree in Carrickmagrath. / Griffin, Lena -- A long time ago a man had a field of potatoes and he had them pitted. / Griffin, Lena -- Stones were drawn from Dunwiley Quarry to St Mary's Church. / Walsh, Madeline -- One time there was a woman and a small woman came into her for the loan of a bowl of oat-meal and she gave it to her. / Moore, Sally -- Once upon a time there was a man coming from Donegal as he was passing a bridge a woman stepped out in front of him and asked him would she bring him home and he said he would walk home. / Moore, Sally -- Once upon a time the fairies stole a woman's baby and left another one in its place. / Menamin, Philomena Mc -- Once upon a time a man was coming from Gortahork fair. / Menamin, Philomena Mc -- Once upon a time there was a man going to Donegal. / Menamin, Philomena Mc -- Once upon a time there was a woman and man the kept three cows. / Menamin, Philomena Mc -- Once upon a time there were two brothers Mick and John. / Moore, Sally -- Once upon a time there was a man coming along a road in Glenfin it was twelve o clock a night. / Moore, Sally -- Once upon a time a man was told that there were some gold hid in a forth near Meenglass, and it was marked with a cross, and some of the people thought it was a grave. / Moore, Sally -- Along time ago there lived a man by himself in Meenbane. / Griffin, Lena -- Once upon a time there were two boys out hunting. / Grannaghan, Colm Mc -- Long ago there were two brothers living near each other in Glenfinn. Owen and John the called them. / Hannigan, Patrick -- One night a man was coming from Letterkenny he bought a horse at the fair and when he was coming home at Meenaroy the horse began to fling he began to beat the horse. / Logue, Seamus -- One day a man was out hunting with two dogs and two ferrets. / Grannaghan, Colm Mc -- About fifty years ago a great lot of people thought there was a small house built in Meenglass wood. / Grant, Annie -- Almost twenty or thirty years ago a man who was living in Meenglass was ploughing a field. / Grant, Annie -- Sixty years ago there was an old fort near to Carrickmagrath. / Grant, Annie -- A man who lived in Goland was going round his fields in which he had corn growing. / Grant, Annie -- Once upon a time there was going to be built in Stranorlar. They were getting stones from Dunwiley quarry to build it. / Grant, Annie -- A few years ago a man was coming from Glenties harvest fair. / Grant, Annie -- About seventy five years ago a woman appeared on the Tyrone mountains she wore a blue dress what colour of a hat she wore was not known one moment it was blue or green or some other colour. / Grant, Annie -- About seventy years ago a man who lived in Meenbane along with his wife. One night about two o clock there came a knock to the door. / Grant, Annie -- There is a tree at the Crossroads Barnes Rd and there is a large hole bored in the trunk. / Walsh, Madeline -- There is a large tree in townland of Cavan, Killygordan. This large tree has seven large trees surrounding it. / Walsh, Madeline -- We grow potatoes on our farm. We usually set four acres every year. -- Peregrination of Charley Gill -- Food in Olden Times -- Local Cures -- Glenfin Heather -- People in Department Jobs - Poem
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.