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And when great deeds are for the telling, let there be a man from Croom to tell of the glory of cutting a seventy acre field of waving golden wheat and that in a reaper's day.

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

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The Koorlawd and also, the Koorlode = A place in Drum Asail (Tory Hill, Croom) which I have not been able to locate precisely or to explain to my own or any one else's satisfaction.

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

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I propose to give, as detailed as possible, the various phases and activities connected with the "cutting" (that is, castration) of calves, activities that were carried through, with the greatest detail as recently as thirty five or even thirty years ago, in this area.

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

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Those that use the "dead hand" are cursed, and though they succeed in taking their neighbours' crops and stock, and maybe breaking them out of house and home, and there are those who died broken-hearted because of their losses, those who do that don't have the better luck for it.

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

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When the fowl get a certain disease, I'm not sure is it the "piuc" or what you call the glúnach, a way to put a stop to its ravages was to bury alive one of the worst-affected fowls.

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

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"Cat" story from Seoirse Mac Raghnail, dalta sgoile, 14.5 identical with that on page 46 but not so complete.

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

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Upon the degree of fecundity of the farm-stock, cows, horses and sheep, depended and of course, naturally enough, still depends, the survival of the farm as a progressive concern.

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

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There are some people and they have luck about them.

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

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The gyooscadawn = ? An gúscadán. The name of a small tract of farm belonging to Mr. Hart of Cooleen, Kilmallock.

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

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The Caolawd, a place on the farm - or adjoining it - of Mr. John Morrissey, Knockanes, Adare.

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

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Don't have any doubt about it, but you can cure the beast with charms.

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

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It was good reaping - with the hook 0 to cut a quarter of an (Irish) acre in a day.

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

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There were men reaping in a field of corn and they had among them a young fellow who wasn't able to keep up his stroke.

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

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When reaping with scythes was common, a mehal of men from the Foynes side went out reaping.

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

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A Cure for the Murrain

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

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Further to the "great reaping" (féach leathanach 72 agus a leanas) Mrs O' Connell of Carraigín, born the year of the "Big Wind" or else the year after it, informs me via Jim Begley her neighbour, via Liam O Beaglaoich his son 14 years, dalta sgoile, that she was at that time about eight or nine years of age (that is at the year of the "great reaping£) and that not only was the "seventy" reaped in a day, but that with it was reaped the "thirty" also the same day, and that there were more than five hundred people engaged in all.

Story collected by Liam O Beaglaoich, a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant Mrs O' Connell.

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The reaper with the hook took a tá(ith) of corn in his ladhar when he was drawing the hook under it.

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

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"The Glúnach" = The gloonagh, the name by which a disease in fowl was known in my home area.

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

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A cock whose usefulness in the fowl-run has come to an end, must not be killed.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant Micheál O Domhnaill.

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There are some farms and the bull that is kept on them is bound to be a rogue.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant John O Donnell.

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There was a woman from Croom gathering brosna in Conway's fort.

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

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Nearly three years ago Mr D. Quirke (41) informed me that his native townland - Fanningstown - got its name from a lady named Fanning who had a castle there.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant Mr D. Quirke.

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When I was a young fellow my mother would make me go out for a gad of quicken tree before sunrise on May morning.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant Mr Mc Gowan.

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Didn't you ever know that tisn't right to be swinging a stick through the grass in front of you and you crossing a field.

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

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Long ago there lived a woman in Croom, whom all the neighbours thought to be a fine honest person.

Story collected by Mary Canty, a student at Cromadh (C.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant Pat Canty.

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There was once a man who made his living by catching leeches.

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

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Piseoga

Story collected by Daithí O Ceanntabhail, a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant William O Connell.

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Local Traditions - Miscellaneous

Story collected by Daithí O Ceanntabhail, a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant an unidentified informant.

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Local Traditions - Miscellaneous

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

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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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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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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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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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Cromadh (C.)

A collection of folklore and local history stories from Cromadh (C.) (school) (Croom, Co. Limerick), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Bríd, Bean Mhic Eoin.

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