Selection of photographs from the National Folklore Collection which illustrates the work of the Irish Folklore Commission and its successors.
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Elf stone; rope is permanently through hole in cente. Narrator said: "You put a stick in the field and put the rope over it, that kept witches and witchcraft off your cattle." The stone is granite. At house of James McLeigh, Seavaghan, Loughlinisland.
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Elf stone; rope is permanently through hole in cente. Narrator said: "You put a stick in the field and put the rope over it , that kept witches and witchcraft off your cattle." The stone is granite. At house of James McLeigh, Seavaghan.
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Elf Stone - Rope is permantently through hole in centre. Narrator said ‘You put a stick in the field and put the rope over it; that kept witches and witchcraft off your cattle.’ At the house of James McLeigh, Lower Seavaghan, Loughlinisland Parish.
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Elf Stone- Rope is permantently through hole in centre. Narrator said ‘You put a stick in the field and put the rope over it; that kept witches and witchcraft off your cattle.’ At the house of James McLeigh, Lower Seavaghan, Loughlinisland Parish.
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Curative holed stone, Inch.
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Statues, Omeath.
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Curative holed stone, Inch.
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The wishbone.
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The Bat: "This bat flew through an upstairs window, down the stairs, and I thought the divil had arrived to smash the lamp, a Tilley type. I was reading; everyone else in bed. I had to kill it to save them."
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Statues, Omeath.
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Statues, Omeath.
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Elf stone. Stone with a hole in it of the type used in old folk cure to cure "Elf Shot" in cattle.
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The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies.
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UCD News was an internal, informal publication published initially by the Information Officer and later by the Office of Public Affairs for the staff and students of University College Dublin. It's aim was to be an informal news magazine rather than an official publication and a typical issue included general news and notices from around the University, news from clubs and societies, correspondence, and appointments.
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UCD News was an internal, informal publication published initially by the Information Officer and later by the Office of Public Affairs for the staff and students of University College Dublin. It's aim was to be an informal news magazine rather than an official publication and a typical issue included general news and notices from around the University, news from clubs and societies, correspondence, and appointments. Includes an article on brain damage research.
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