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Talking about weasels reminds me of a thing that happened me in Lyonses one day.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant Ed Hogan.

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"Orenagrook (? Árd na gcruach) means the hill of the reeks...

Story collected by Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail, a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant P. Dore.

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Local Traditions - Historical and Otherwise

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant Baintreach an Fhearghalaigh.

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Local Traditions - Historical and Otherwise

Story collected by Daithí Ó Ceanntabhail, a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).

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Radalach

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).

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A certain man interfered somehow with weasels, how, rightly I don't know, but at any rate, they got on to him and night or day he couldn't rest for fear of them.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).

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Would you believe that I gave up fishing a rising trout today to watch what I never before saw, a king-fisher stalking its prey.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant Tim Hederman.

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They say that if you make a garter of eel-skin and wear it that it will banish cramp from the leg.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant Denis Lyons.

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Standing on the bridge this evening (at Croom) I saw a kingfisher buzzing in the air over the river near Harrison's window,

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant William Corkery.

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Cromadh (B.)

A collection of folklore and local history stories from Cromadh (B.) (school) (Croom, Co. Limerick), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail.

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