Dúchas - Lankill NS Entries 1939

Our school contributed a really large amount of stories to the Folklore Commission in 1939 - a total of 500 in all. Below we have added direct links to some of topics covered. by five pupil collectors who collected the stories and wrote the essays.

Teacher: Seán ó Cibhíl

Collector: Maureen Nolan

Index of Stories

1, Pot of Gold

2. A Strange Fire

3. A Fairy Horse

4, Gruel for a Dead Man

5. The Dead Woman's Cloak

6. A Fairy Fair

7. Fairy and Cake

8. Fighting the Devil

9. St. Patrick Feeds the Multitude

10. Riddles

11. Borrowing a Churn

12. Churning Blood

13. The Jealous Witch

14. A Strange Horse

15. God Bless Us

16. Damned for Weights and Measures

17. Postman Against the Dead

18. Taken by the Fairies

19. Evidence in Court

20. Searching for Fools

21. The Big Wind

22. A School Day in 1938

23. A School Day in 1876

24. Games at School in 1938

25. Games at School in 1876

26. Proverbs (101 proverbs)

27. Local Sayings

28. Dean Swift and his Servant

29. Knappabeg

30. Stealing Trees

31, Fairies Take a Cow

32. Marrying the King's Daughter

Collector: Martin King

1. Building on Fairy Ground

2. Fairy Music

3. Fairy Woman

4. Story about Lights

5. Two Fairy Men

6. Gold in Liscarney

7. Hayrick built on Fort

8. Fairy Man

9. Fairy in Shape of the Devil

10. Riddles

11. Barrel of Gold

12. Fairy Dog

13. Cures

14. Water Dogs

15. Working a Water Horse

16. Denis Brown

17. Fairy Barrel

18. Lucky and Unlucky Days

19. Dog at the Hangman's Bridge

20. Old Sayings

21. Straw Boys

22. Returning from Wedding

23. Fairy Carriage

24. Fairy Child

25. Priest's Horse Cured by Charms

26. Signs and Superstitions

Collector: Nora Boyle

1. Pot of Gold

2. Forts

3. St Patrick and the Giants

4. Riddles

5. Cow with One Horn

6. Riddles

7. Mass Rock

8. Water Horse

9. St. Patrick's Well

10. Sean na Sagart

11. Cures

12. Weeds

13. Denis Brown

14. Fights at Fairs

15. Night of Big Wind

16. Thunder Storm

17. Funeral in Time of Big Snow

18. School Day in 1938

19. School Day in 1890

20. School Day in 1879

21. School Rhymes

22. School Games

23. School Games 60 years ago.

24. Proverbs

25. Dried Up Well in Cushen

27. Townland of lahardane, Aughagower

28. Food in Olden Days

29. Townland of lahardane

30. Bearna an Fhir Mhairbh

31. Turning Coat Inside out

32, Superstition

Collector: John Edward Grady

1. Ghost in Killeen

2. Hare Chases Hound

3. The Fort in Clonskill

4. Man with Big Appetite

5. A Fort in Lankill

6. Riddles

7. Leprechaun and His Gold

8 Fprt in Clonskill

9. Snow in 1917

10. Ghost in Cordarragh

11. Storm in 1839

12. Dean Swift's Boy

13. School in 1938

14. Food Seventy Years Ago

Collector: Mary Keane

1. The Bohea Pot of Gold

2. Gold that Disappeared

3. Killeenacoff Pot of Gold

4. Passing the Fairies Unseen

5. Fairies Buying Oats

6. Fairies and a Smeill

7. Paddy Coleman's Evil Spirit

8. Poor Scholar

9. Cow Taken by Fairies

10. St. Patrick's Journey to the Reek

11. Riddles

12. Cures

13. Weeds

14. Water Horse

15. Priest in Penal Days

16. Mass in a Quarry

17. Gort na Manach

18. Father Manus Sweeney

19. People Hanged by Denis Brown

20. Sean Na Sagart

21. Dead Coach

22. Fairs 40 Years Ago

23. Fairs and Patterns in Murrisk

24. Dead Coach

25. Cutting Oats by Moonlight

26. Gathering Rack

27. Weddings 100 years ago

28. Witches and the Big Wind

Above is just a flavour of the many, many essays submitted by Lankill National School in 1939. There are over 500 in total covering every aspect of local folklore, customs and beliefs. They make for fascinating reading and deserve to be perused.