Sceichín an Rince, Cloichín an Mhargaidh

Abstract: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Sceichín an Rince, Cloichín an Mhargaidh (school) (Skeheenaranky, Co. Tipperary), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Dómhnall Ua Cathasaigh.

Original reference: 0573/1

In collection  The Schools’ Collection : County Tipperary schools

Stories

  1. Folk Cures (p. 001-008)
  2. Hidden Treasure (p. 009)
  3. Guarded by Pig (p. 009)
  4. Guarded by a Dead Man (p. 010-011)
  5. Hidden Treasure Found (p. 011-012)
  6. Hidden Treasure (p. 012)
  7. Hidden Treasure (p. 012)
  8. Hidden Treasure (p. 012)
  9. Gold is hidden in the townland of Loughananna (parish of Kilbehenny) in a gorge beside the lodge at the western entrance to Galtee Castle occupied by Michael Keane. (p. 013)
  10. Guarded by a Headless Horse (p. 013-014)
  11. There was some Gold hidden in Gortheen wood by Thomas White. In later years Ned and James White went digging for it. (p. 015)
  12. Hidden Treasure - Willie Brennan the Outlaw and Betty Ní Bhroin (p. 016)
  13. Hidden Treasure (p. 017)
  14. Hidden Treasure (p. 017)
  15. Hidden Treasure (p. 018)
  16. Betty's Death (p. 018)
  17. Brennans and Betty at the Pattern of Ballysheehan (p. 019)
  18. Betty Ní Bhroin with her brother Brennan were at a wake in Behenagh (parish of Kilbehenny) one night. (p. 019)
  19. Betty Ní Bhroin's gold is hidden in Carrigeen (Parish of Kilbehenny) where a little stream rises and flows round in a circle and goes down on the ground. (p. 019-020)
  20. Famine (p. 021-022)
  21. Famine (p. 022-023)
  22. Famine (p. 023-024)
  23. Famine (p. 025)
  24. Famine (p. 025)
  25. Famine (p. 025)
  26. Famine (p. 026)
  27. Potato Digging (p. 026)
  28. Holy Wells - St Fannahan's Well (p. 027)
  29. Holy Wells (p. 027-028)
  30. Holy Wells (p. 029)
  31. Holy Wells - St Fanahan's Well (p. 029-030)
  32. Ill-Treated Stepson - Three Wishes (p. 031-033)
  33. Poor Boy Cheats Lord's Daughter into Marriage (p. 034-035)
  34. Magic Stream in Cave (p. 036)
  35. A Serpent in Lake (p. 037)
  36. Magic Cloak, Apple and Cherry (p. 038)
  37. Fairy Sheep Comes to Farmer (p. 038-039)
  38. Hedge-Schools - Old Schools (p. 040)
  39. Hedge-Schools - Old Schools (p. 040)
  40. Hedge-Schools - Old Schools (p. 041)
  41. Hedge-Schools - Old Schools (p. 041)
  42. Hedge-Schools - Old Schools (p. 041-042)
  43. Petty Coat Lewis - Her Misdeeds - Her Penances (p. 043-047)
  44. Petty Coat Lewis - Her Misdeeds - Her Penances (p. 047-048)
  45. Petty Coat Lewis - Her Misdeeds - Her Penances (p. 048)
  46. Food Long Ago (p. 049)
  47. Starch from Potatoes (p. 049)
  48. Preparing Potato Seed (p. 049-050)
  49. Blood Pudding (p. 050-051)
  50. Oaten Bread - Barm (p. 051-052)
  51. Corn Mills (p. 053)
  52. Kinds of Bread - Cross on Cake (p. 054-055)
  53. In the olden times people ate potatoes three times a day. If they had no the spuds they would eat yellow-meal. (p. 056)
  54. Long ago in Ireland the people used to eat different food to what we eat at the present day. (p. 056-057)
  55. Preparation of Ground in Olden Times (p. 057-058)
  56. Manure - Digging, Ploughing, Ploughs (p. 058-059)
  57. Weather-Lore - Signs of Rain (p. 060-062)
  58. Weather-Lore - Signs of Storm (p. 063)
  59. Weather-Lore - Signs of Snow (p. 063-064)
  60. Landlords - Evictions - Jailing for Trivial Offences etc. (p. 065-067)
  61. Sheep Stealing (p. 068-069)
  62. Evictions (p. 070)
  63. Eviction (p. 070)
  64. Eviction (p. 070-071)
  65. Shooting of Vincent Scully (p. 071-072)
  66. Lord Kingston (p. 072)
  67. Lord Kingston (p. 072-073)
  68. Lord Kingston (p. 073-074)
  69. In former times the landlords had the charge of collecting the rent. (p. 074-075)
  70. Some time ago the Kingston family were extensive owners of the lands in this part of the country in the County of Cork and Tipperary and in this part of the country they took up an extensive property belong to O' Mahony's who were living at that time in Loughananna. (p. 075-077)
  71. One day Bailey was at a funeral and he saw a man carrying a brosna and he passed the funeral and took the brosna off the man and kicked round the road and summoned him heavily. (p. 078)
  72. One day a boy went for a beart of firewood. (p. 078)
  73. A man named Ryan was evicted out of the house where Pat Farrell now lives in the townland of Cooladerry, Parish of Ballyporeen. (p. 078-079)
  74. Shooting of Grabbero (p. 080)
  75. Another landlord was Lord Lismore whose property is now owned by General Pole carew. (p. 079-080)
  76. Ghost of Lord Kingston Known as the Tiarna (p. 081-082)
  77. When Old Kingston died it was said he came back again to stop people from stealing trees. He did not ever come back when Buckley's got possession of the land. (p. 083)
  78. A man named Kingston was the ruler of this district before Mr Buckley. (p. 083-084)
  79. Sheep Stealing (p. 085-087)
  80. Kingston or the Tiarna and His Ghost (Again) (p. 088)
  81. Long ago after old Kingston dying he used to be seen by night in the wood. One night a man was passing through the wood and at the end of the wood there was a gate. (p. 088)
  82. Lord and Kingston's Ghost (p. 089-090)
  83. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 091)
  84. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 091-092)
  85. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 093)
  86. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 093)
  87. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 094)
  88. May Eve Customs and Piseoga (p. 094-095)
  89. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 095-096)
  90. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 096-097)
  91. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 097-098)
  92. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 098)
  93. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 098)
  94. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 099)
  95. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 099)
  96. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 100)
  97. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 100-101)
  98. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 102)
  99. Irish Words in Use in Skeheenarinky, Clogheen, Co. Tipperary (p. 103-106)
  100. Irish Words in Use in Skeheenarinky, Clogheen, Co. Tipperary (p. 107)
  101. Pishogues (p. 108)
  102. Pishogues (p. 108)
  103. Pishogues (p. 108-109)
  104. Great Mowers - Strong Men - Other Trials (p. 111)
  105. Great Mowers - Strong Men - Other Trials (p. 111)
  106. Great Mowers - Strong Men - Other Trials (p. 111)
  107. Great Mowers - Strong Men - Other Trials (p. 111-112)
  108. Great Mowers - Strong Men - Other Trials (p. 112-113)
  109. Great Mowers - Strong Men - Other Trials (p. 113)
  110. Great Mowers - Strong Men - Other Trials (p. 113-115)
  111. Seanaimsearthacht (p. 116-118)
  112. Butter (p. 118-119)
  113. Butter (p. 119-120)
  114. Butter (p. 121)
  115. Butter (p. 122)
  116. Butter (p. 122)
  117. Butter (p. 123)
  118. Butter (p. 123)
  119. Seanaimsearthacht - Meitheals etc (p. 124)
  120. Seanaimsearthacht - Meitheals etc (p. 124-125)
  121. Seanaimsearthacht - Meitheals etc (p. 125-126)
  122. Foxes' Cunning (p. 128)
  123. Foxes' Cunning (p. 128-129)
  124. Foxes' Cunning (p. 129-130)
  125. Foxes' Cunning (p. 130)
  126. Foxes' Cunning (p. 130)
  127. Foxes' Cunning (p. 130-131)
  128. Foxes' Cunning (p. 131-132)
  129. Foxes' Cunning (p. 132)
  130. Rat Story (p. 133)
  131. Rat Story (p. 134)
  132. Rats and Weasels (p. 134-135)
  133. One day, men were cutting hay in a field in Kiltankin. When evening came the girls took tea to them. (p. 136-137)
  134. Cows' Cunning (p. 138)
  135. Pocupine Milks Cow (p. 138-139)
  136. Birds' Dispute (p. 139-140)
  137. Birds' Dispute (p. 140)
  138. In our district foxes are very numerous they do a lot of harm to our fowl and young lambs. (p. 141)
  139. White Knight (p. 143-144)
  140. Seanaimsearthacht (p. 145-147)
  141. Good People (p. 148)
  142. Ghost (p. 148)
  143. Ghostly Light (p. 149)
  144. Long ago there was a woman named Pettycoatloose Bay Loch in the Knockmealdown Mountains and she was believed to be an evil spirit. (p. 150)
  145. There is a house in this district, which is supposed to be visited by ghosts. (p. 151)
  146. Good People (p. 152)
  147. Lough (Name of Skeheenarinky) (p. 153)
  148. Meals in Olden Times (p. 154)
  149. Prophet (p. 156)
  150. The same man (Prophet) was going around and he met a woman and he told her he'd make Limestone Soup if she would pay. (p. 156-157)
  151. Cooper Kearney was wood ranger to the wood above the Castle and it was called Cooper's Wood after him. (p. 157-158)
  152. One night a man was putting in the geese but they would not go past the door and were cackling loudly. (p. 158)
  153. Pat English was a woodranger and one day he caught Thady Kilmartin bringing home brusna and he took the brusna from and kicked it round the place and told him not to be seen in that place again. (p. 158-159)
  154. Funny Story (p. 160-162)
  155. Folk Cures (p. 001-008)
  156. Hidden Treasure (p. 009)
  157. Guarded by Pig (p. 009)
  158. Guarded by a Dead Man (p. 010-011)
  159. Hidden Treasure Found (p. 011-012)
  160. Hidden Treasure (p. 012)
  161. Hidden Treasure (p. 012)
  162. Hidden Treasure (p. 012)
  163. Gold is hidden in the townland of Loughananna (parish of Kilbehenny) in a gorge beside the lodge at the western entrance to Galtee Castle occupied by Michael Keane. (p. 013)
  164. Guarded by a Headless Horse (p. 013-014)
  165. There was some Gold hidden in Gortheen wood by Thomas White. In later years Ned and James White went digging for it. (p. 015)
  166. Hidden Treasure - Willie Brennan the Outlaw and Betty Ní Bhroin (p. 016)
  167. Hidden Treasure (p. 017)
  168. Hidden Treasure (p. 017)
  169. Hidden Treasure (p. 018)
  170. Betty's Death (p. 018)
  171. Brennans and Betty at the Pattern of Ballysheehan (p. 019)
  172. Betty Ní Bhroin with her brother Brennan were at a wake in Behenagh (parish of Kilbehenny) one night. (p. 019)
  173. Betty Ní Bhroin's gold is hidden in Carrigeen (Parish of Kilbehenny) where a little stream rises and flows round in a circle and goes down on the ground. (p. 019-020)
  174. Famine (p. 021-022)
  175. Famine (p. 022-023)
  176. Famine (p. 023-024)
  177. Famine (p. 025)
  178. Famine (p. 025)
  179. Famine (p. 025)
  180. Famine (p. 026)
  181. Potato Digging (p. 026)
  182. Holy Wells - St Fannahan's Well (p. 027)
  183. Holy Wells (p. 027-028)
  184. Holy Wells (p. 029)
  185. Holy Wells - St Fanahan's Well (p. 029-030)
  186. Ill-Treated Stepson - Three Wishes (p. 031-033)
  187. Poor Boy Cheats Lord's Daughter into Marriage (p. 034-035)
  188. Magic Stream in Cave (p. 036)
  189. A Serpent in Lake (p. 037)
  190. Magic Cloak, Apple and Cherry (p. 038)
  191. Fairy Sheep Comes to Farmer (p. 038-039)
  192. Hedge-Schools - Old Schools (p. 040)
  193. Hedge-Schools - Old Schools (p. 040)
  194. Hedge-Schools - Old Schools (p. 041)
  195. Hedge-Schools - Old Schools (p. 041)
  196. Hedge-Schools - Old Schools (p. 041-042)
  197. Petty Coat Lewis - Her Misdeeds - Her Penances (p. 043-047)
  198. Petty Coat Lewis - Her Misdeeds - Her Penances (p. 047-048)
  199. Petty Coat Lewis - Her Misdeeds - Her Penances (p. 048)
  200. Food Long Ago (p. 049)
  201. Starch from Potatoes (p. 049)
  202. Preparing Potato Seed (p. 049-050)
  203. Blood Pudding (p. 050-051)
  204. Oaten Bread - Barm (p. 051-052)
  205. Corn Mills (p. 053)
  206. Kinds of Bread - Cross on Cake (p. 054-055)
  207. In the olden times people ate potatoes three times a day. If they had no the spuds they would eat yellow-meal. (p. 056)
  208. Long ago in Ireland the people used to eat different food to what we eat at the present day. (p. 056-057)
  209. Preparation of Ground in Olden Times (p. 057-058)
  210. Manure - Digging, Ploughing, Ploughs (p. 058-059)
  211. Weather-Lore - Signs of Rain (p. 060-062)
  212. Weather-Lore - Signs of Storm (p. 063)
  213. Weather-Lore - Signs of Snow (p. 063-064)
  214. Landlords - Evictions - Jailing for Trivial Offences etc. (p. 065-067)
  215. Sheep Stealing (p. 068-069)
  216. Evictions (p. 070)
  217. Eviction (p. 070)
  218. Eviction (p. 070-071)
  219. Shooting of Vincent Scully (p. 071-072)
  220. Lord Kingston (p. 072)
  221. Lord Kingston (p. 072-073)
  222. Lord Kingston (p. 073-074)
  223. In former times the landlords had the charge of collecting the rent. (p. 074-075)
  224. Some time ago the Kingston family were extensive owners of the lands in this part of the country in the County of Cork and Tipperary and in this part of the country they took up an extensive property belong to O' Mahony's who were living at that time in Loughananna. (p. 075-077)
  225. One day Bailey was at a funeral and he saw a man carrying a brosna and he passed the funeral and took the brosna off the man and kicked round the road and summoned him heavily. (p. 078)
  226. One day a boy went for a beart of firewood. (p. 078)
  227. A man named Ryan was evicted out of the house where Pat Farrell now lives in the townland of Cooladerry, Parish of Ballyporeen. (p. 078-079)
  228. Shooting of Grabbero (p. 080)
  229. Another landlord was Lord Lismore whose property is now owned by General Pole carew. (p. 079-080)
  230. Ghost of Lord Kingston Known as the Tiarna (p. 081-082)
  231. When Old Kingston died it was said he came back again to stop people from stealing trees. He did not ever come back when Buckley's got possession of the land. (p. 083)
  232. A man named Kingston was the ruler of this district before Mr Buckley. (p. 083-084)
  233. Sheep Stealing (p. 085-087)
  234. Kingston or the Tiarna and His Ghost (Again) (p. 088)
  235. Long ago after old Kingston dying he used to be seen by night in the wood. One night a man was passing through the wood and at the end of the wood there was a gate. (p. 088)
  236. Lord and Kingston's Ghost (p. 089-090)
  237. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 091)
  238. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 091-092)
  239. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 093)
  240. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 093)
  241. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 094)
  242. May Eve Customs and Piseoga (p. 094-095)
  243. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 095-096)
  244. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 096-097)
  245. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 097-098)
  246. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 098)
  247. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 098)
  248. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 099)
  249. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 099)
  250. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 100)
  251. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 100-101)
  252. May Eve Customs and Pishogues (p. 102)
  253. Irish Words in Use in Skeheenarinky, Clogheen, Co. Tipperary (p. 103-106)
  254. Irish Words in Use in Skeheenarinky, Clogheen, Co. Tipperary (p. 107)
  255. Pishogues (p. 108)
  256. Pishogues (p. 108)
  257. Pishogues (p. 108-109)
  258. Great Mowers - Strong Men - Other Trials (p. 111)
  259. Great Mowers - Strong Men - Other Trials (p. 111)
  260. Great Mowers - Strong Men - Other Trials (p. 111)
  261. Great Mowers - Strong Men - Other Trials (p. 111-112)
  262. Great Mowers - Strong Men - Other Trials (p. 112-113)
  263. Great Mowers - Strong Men - Other Trials (p. 113)
  264. Great Mowers - Strong Men - Other Trials (p. 113-115)
  265. Seanaimsearthacht (p. 116-118)
  266. Butter (p. 118-119)
  267. Butter (p. 119-120)
  268. Butter (p. 121)
  269. Butter (p. 122)
  270. Butter (p. 122)
  271. Butter (p. 123)
  272. Butter (p. 123)
  273. Seanaimsearthacht - Meitheals etc (p. 124)
  274. Seanaimsearthacht - Meitheals etc (p. 124-125)
  275. Seanaimsearthacht - Meitheals etc (p. 125-126)
  276. Foxes' Cunning (p. 128)
  277. Foxes' Cunning (p. 128-129)
  278. Foxes' Cunning (p. 129-130)
  279. Foxes' Cunning (p. 130)
  280. Foxes' Cunning (p. 130)
  281. Foxes' Cunning (p. 130-131)
  282. Foxes' Cunning (p. 131-132)
  283. Foxes' Cunning (p. 132)
  284. Rat Story (p. 133)
  285. Rat Story (p. 134)
  286. Rats and Weasels (p. 134-135)
  287. One day, men were cutting hay in a field in Kiltankin. When evening came the girls took tea to them. (p. 136-137)
  288. Cows' Cunning (p. 138)
  289. Pocupine Milks Cow (p. 138-139)
  290. Birds' Dispute (p. 139-140)
  291. Birds' Dispute (p. 140)
  292. In our district foxes are very numerous they do a lot of harm to our fowl and young lambs. (p. 141)
  293. White Knight (p. 143-144)
  294. Seanaimsearthacht (p. 145-147)
  295. Good People (p. 148)
  296. Ghost (p. 148)
  297. Ghostly Light (p. 149)
  298. Long ago there was a woman named Pettycoatloose Bay Loch in the Knockmealdown Mountains and she was believed to be an evil spirit. (p. 150)
  299. There is a house in this district, which is supposed to be visited by ghosts. (p. 151)
  300. Good People (p. 152)
  301. Lough (Name of Skeheenarinky) (p. 153)
  302. Meals in Olden Times (p. 154)
  303. Prophet (p. 156)
  304. The same man (Prophet) was going around and he met a woman and he told her he'd make Limestone Soup if she would pay. (p. 156-157)
  305. Cooper Kearney was wood ranger to the wood above the Castle and it was called Cooper's Wood after him. (p. 157-158)
  306. One night a man was putting in the geese but they would not go past the door and were cackling loudly. (p. 158)
  307. Pat English was a woodranger and one day he caught Thady Kilmartin bringing home brusna and he took the brusna from and kicked it round the place and told him not to be seen in that place again. (p. 158-159)
  308. Funny Story (p. 160-162)

Resource description

Origin information
Skeheenaranky, Co. Tipperary
Date created: –
Type of Resource
text
Physical description
1 chapter (vol. 573, p. 1a-162)
Languages
English  
Genre
Chapter
Subject
Folklore--Ireland--Tipperary
Treasure troves--Folklore
Brigands and robbers   linked data (lcsh)
Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852
Potatoes   linked data (lcsh)
Manners and customs   linked data (lcsh)
Folk poetry   linked data (lcsh)
Supernatural beings   linked data (afset)
Schools   linked data (lcsh)
Supernatural beings   linked data (afset)
Agriculture   linked data (lcsh)
Food--Folklore
Bread--Folklore
Weather--Folklore
Land use   linked data (lcsh)
May (Month)--Folklore
Folk beliefs   linked data (afset)
Irish language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Butter   linked data (lcsh)
Foxes--Folklore
Animals--Folklore
Birds--Folklore
Jokes   linked data (lcsh)
Traditional medicine   linked data (lcsh)
School location
Skeheenaranky Sceichín an Rince Skeheenaranky Templetenny Iffa and Offa West Tipperary
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https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_4922268
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