Gowna


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.

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Domestic Animals - Care and Cures


Story collected by a student at Gowna school (Lough Gowna, Co. Cavan) (no informant identified).

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Three things that were not to be found in Noah's Ark...


Story collected by a student at Gowna school (Lough Gowna, Co. Cavan) (no informant identified).

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No one... to hear a cock crowing in the dead of the night


Story collected by a student at Gowna school (Lough Gowna, Co. Cavan) (no informant identified).

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In erecting houses here long ago it was a custom to bury a horse's head beneath the kitchen floor to create an echo.


Story collected by a student at Gowna school (Lough Gowna, Co. Cavan) (no informant identified).

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The crowing of the cock is often referred to when any misfortune happen's in a family.


Story collected by a student at Gowna school (Lough Gowna, Co. Cavan) (no informant identified).

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