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Gowna

Abstract: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Gowna (school) (Lough Gowna, Co. Cavan), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Hugh Murray.

Original reference: 0986/1

In collection The Schools’ Collection : County Cavan schools

  1. Fairy Man (p. 001-002)
  2. Hidden Treasure in Cornamuckla (p. 003-004)
  3. Blind Berney Reilly The Fiddler (p. 005)
  4. Carman of Bruice (p. 005-006)
  5. Margaret Sweeney's Hedge-School (p. 007)
  6. Clann McKiernan (p. 008-010)
  7. Ruined Mill (p. 011-013)
  8. 100 years ago Scrabby had a famous horsefair on the 11th December. (p. 013-014)
  9. Mountain Dew (p. 014)
  10. Drinking Song - Poteen (p. 014-015)
  11. Johnny Foley the dancing master was born in Scrabby, went to Belfast and learned the trade... (p. 016)
  12. Song (p. 017)
  13. There is a step called the Salmon's leap... (p. 018)
  14. Story (p. 019)
  15. Yale of a Dog (p. 020)
  16. At the beginning of the 19th century Scrabby in the banks of Lough Gowna was some times referred to as the fishing village. (p. 021-022)
  17. Andy the point - Andy Reilly lived beside Lough Gowna at a point of land that stretches out in the lake... (p. 022-023)
  18. 1847 - The potato crop here failed completely and the people here had to find some substitute for food. (p. 023-024)
  19. The Wendy night 1839 did dreadful damage around Scrabby. (p. 024-025)
  20. The fashions in Scrabby were much the same in Scrabby... (p. 026-027)
  21. Animals (p. 027-028)
  22. Dan Brady's Mule (p. 029-031)
  23. Story (p. 032)
  24. Mistake (p. 033)
  25. Flood the Poet (p. 034)
  26. Wooden Ploughs (p. 035)
  27. Letter of the Widow's Son (p. 036)
  28. Put a fasting spit on a wort for nine mornings and the wart disappear (p. 037-038)
  29. Story (p. 039)
  30. Story (p. 040)
  31. Domestic Animals - Care and Cures (p. 041)
  32. In erecting houses here long ago it was a custom to bury a horse's head beneath the kitchen floor to create an echo. (p. 041)
  33. Rheumatism - Pains - Cures (p. 042)
  34. When a cow picks calf that is throws her calf after a period of four, five or six months. (p. 042)
  35. If say a pole were put across in a gap leading from one field to another... (p. 042)
  36. Once a man was going through a grave yard and coming across a skull he gave it a kick. (p. 042)
  37. It was a common belief that if a person should drink sow's milk he would see the wind. (p. 043)
  38. The bees will sting all animals to death that disturb them... (p. 043)
  39. The Ass (p. 044)
  40. Small boys derive a great kick out of inciting a wicked goat. (p. 044)
  41. When a calf comes to the world around Whitsuntide... (p. 044)
  42. The same reason care is taken by the housewife... (p. 044)
  43. Things that Cannot be Done (p. 044)
  44. Sayings (p. 045)
  45. Mass Rock in Corfree (p. 046)
  46. On the shore of Loch Gowna beside the village of Scrabby stands the Protestant Church today. (p. 047-049)
  47. The village of Scrabby was known in the early part of the 19th century as the white washed fishing village. (p. 050)
  48. Tom Smith of Aughavains born about 1850 told me that in his early years the daily food and carry on... (p. 051-052)
  49. In the bad old times a poor man lived in this district who had a way of his own saying things... (p. 052-053)
  50. Hallow Eve night is the night of the year for the Ghost stories. (p. 053-054)
  51. In any place where there was hidden treasure it was supposed to be guarded... (p. 054-055)
  52. Still on Halloween night the young men go about playing pranks on the neighbours. (p. 055)
  53. It breaks one of the Commandments to heal... (p. 055-056)
  54. In the years following 1847 when the poor had to take up the bag and take to the roads of Ireland, they took with them and spread a lore all their own. (p. 057)
  55. In a field along the shore of Lough Gowna there is a place called the Dead Man's Hollow. (p. 058)
  56. According to the old people there is hidden treasure somewhere in Mulrick beside Lough Gowna. (p. 059)
  57. Phrases (p. 059)
  58. Very many old customs still survive here regarding wakes and funerals. (p. 060-061)
  59. An old man drew for me a comparison between the men of... (p. 061-062)
  60. At a funeral when the coffin is taken out it is left on four chairs outside. (p. 062)
  61. The work 'lock' is in very common use here... (p. 063)
  62. In calling fowl and domestic animals the old people had a particular call.... (p. 063-064)
  63. Slapping a game also carried on at wakes. (p. 064-065)
  64. Lime-Kilns (p. 065-066)
  65. In this district one hundred years ago cottage industries were in a fairly perfect condition. (p. 067)
  66. The Irishman saw a local wit was and is noted all over the world... (p. 067)
  67. Mats for houses were also made of straw... (p. 067)
  68. In fact years ago straw was in... (p. 067-068)
  69. Other college industries carried on here were carpenting, shoe-making, cooering, dyeing... (p. 068-069)
  70. The landlord in Scrabby was Stewart. (p. 069-070)
  71. Christmas (p. 071-073)
  72. Story - Christmas (p. 073-074)
  73. The old men (dead now) factions of the old men here today were very different in many ways... (p. 075)
  74. Phrases in Use of Doubtful Origin (p. 076-077)
  75. Sleeping Beauty (p. 078-080)
  76. Above is a rough diagram of the village of Scrabby. (p. 081)
  77. Unwritten Laws (p. 082-083)
  78. When a person set out on a journey, he was always on the look out for certain lucky or unlucky signs. (p. 084-085)
  79. Rules of Luck and Bad Luck (p. 086-087)
  80. Cures (p. 087-088)
  81. Hospitality (p. 088)
  82. Bean Sí (p. 089)
  83. Weird stories are told her too about the dead coach and that it goes certain old roads at the dead hours of the night. (p. 089)
  84. Clan Mac Kiernan (p. 090)
  85. The village of Scrabby stands at a distance of ten miles from Ballinamuck where the Irish Hopes died in 1798. (p. 091-093)
  86. The Battle of Ballinamuck was fought on an Autumn day in 1798. (p. 093-094)
  87. Bruise Mountain a man of the Masterson Family set out for the Battle of Granard in 1798 at the head of a good party of men. (p. 094)
  88. 1798 Battle Ballinamuck (p. 095-097)
  89. Battle of Ballinamuck (p. 097-099)
  90. Galligan's Racing Mare (p. 100-102)
  91. Foods Used Long Ago (p. 103)
  92. Games Played by Children Fifty Years Ago (p. 103-104)
  93. Salaghan Bridge (p. 105-106)
  94. Tale of a Dog (p. 107-109)
  95. Ribbon Men (p. 110)
  96. A local clan now extinct named 'The Keaney's' were Fenians and had a very strong tradition. (p. 110-111)
  97. Not far from the Village in a little hollow beside the road are the ruins of a little cabbin. (p. 111-112)
  98. This school St Patrick's, Gowna, was built in 1886. (p. 113)
  99. Hat making was an... (p. 113)
  100. The Helpless babe. The little runner. (p. 114)
  101. Furniture of an Old Irish Cabin (p. 115-116)
  102. Clocks were unknown here up to a hundred years ago. (p. 116-117)
  103. Three things that were not to be found in Noah's Ark... (p. 117)
  104. No one... to hear a cock crowing in the dead of the night (p. 117)
  105. The crowing of the cock is often referred to when any misfortune happen's in a family. (p. 117)
  106. Around this locality cock fighting was indulged in long ago. (p. 117-118)
  107. A very old custom here was passing the pipe. (p. 118-120)
  108. Sleep walking was not uncommon here in the age that is past. (p. 121)
  109. Lunacy here was not.... to families.. (p. 121)
  110. The family books of the last generation were "The Speckles from the Death"... (p. 122)
  111. The old forge of Scrabby is marked.. (p. 122-123)
  112. In this forge were made all things in iron then needed... (p. 123-124)
  113. Tommy Bradley who died ten years ago at the age of 85 was the best carpenter this district ever knew. (p. 124)
  114. The greatest combination in a farmer's cart was a McGrath... (p. 124)
  115. A grand example of a town that grew up around a ford in a river. (p. 125)
  116. Mickey lived on the shore of lough Gowna and his sort of fairy tale has everything to do with the water beside which he lived.... (p. 126-128)
  117. Lough Gowna (p. 129-130)
  118. To hear out my statement here is an example... (p. 131)
  119. Thus ends the store of folklore and scraps of history in the little district through which I moved during the past twenty years. (p. 132)
Origin information
Lough Gowna, Co. Cavan
Date created:
Type of Resource
text
Physical description
1 chapter (vol. 986, p. 1A-132)
Languages
English  
Genre
Chapter
Subject
Folklore--Ireland--Cavan (County)
Recreation   linked data (lcsh)
Schools   linked data (lcsh)
Folk poetry   linked data (lcsh)
Treasure troves--Folklore
Supernatural beings   linked data (afset)
Agriculture   linked data (lcsh)
Animal culture   linked data (lcsh)
Folk beliefs   linked data (afset)
Dwellings--Folklore
Rheumatism   linked data (lcsh)
Traditional medicine   linked data (lcsh)
Pentecost Festival   linked data (lcsh)
Verbal arts and literature   linked data (afset)
Dissenters, Religious--Legal status, laws, etc.
Halloween   linked data (lcsh)
Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852
Death--Folklore
animal calls   linked data (afset)
Limekilns   linked data (lcsh)
Christmas   linked data (lcsh)
Proverbs   linked data (lcsh)
Manners and customs   linked data (lcsh)
Banshees   linked data (lcsh)
Ireland--History--Rebellion of 1798
Ribbonism   linked data (lcsh)
Clothing and dress   linked data (lcsh)
Occupations   linked data (lcsh)
Smithing   linked data (afset)
School location
Lough GownaLoch GamhnaLough GownaScrabbyTullyhuncoCavan
Location
https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_5070738
Location
University College Dublin. National Folklore Collection UCD .

Original reference: 0986/1

Suggested credit
"The Schools' Manuscript Collection: County Cavan schools," held by the National Folklore Collection UCD. © Digital content by University College Dublin, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <http://digital.ucd.ie/view/duchas:50707385>
Funding
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.
Record source
Metadata creation date: 2014/2016 — Metadata created by Fiontar, Dublin City University, in collaboration with the National Folklore Collection UCD and UCD Library. Original Fiontar metadata converted into MODS by UCD Library.

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