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21. In olden days each house-holder had to sow enough wheat to produce his own bread.

Dates:
1937-1938 — 1937 — 2014-2016 — 2014
Type/Formats:
Text — Folktale
Contributors:
Cárthaigh, Eoghan Mac — Boles, Christine — Boles, James — Ireland. Department of Arts, Culture, and the Gaeltacht — University College Dublin [ … ]
Abstract:
Story collected by Christine Boles, a student at Lagganstown, New Inn school (Lagganstown Lower, Co. Tipperary) from informant James Boles.
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22. About one hundred years ago the farmers around here used to sow a lot of wheat.

Dates:
1937-1938 — 1937 — 2014-2016 — 2014
Type/Formats:
Text — Folktale
Contributors:
Súilleabháin, P. Ó — Ireland. Department of Arts, Culture, and the Gaeltacht — University College Dublin — National Folklore Foundation--Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann
Abstract:
Story collected by a student at An Tobar school (Tubber, Co. Galway) (no informant identified).
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23. There is another story about the cnucán. A man went ploughing it one day to set wheat in it...

Dates:
1937-1938 — 1937 — 2014-2016 — 2014
Type/Formats:
Text — Folktale
Contributors:
Chathaláin, — Ahern, Shiela — Ahern, John — Ireland. Department of Arts, Culture, and the Gaeltacht — University College Dublin [ … ]
Abstract:
Story collected by Shiela Ahern, a student at Baile Giolla tSionáin (C.) school (Ballygiltenan Upper, Co. Limerick) from informant John Ahern.
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24. There used to be two men shovelling wheat in the Lime-kiln Hill, just opposite Michael Byrd's door on the Drogheda-Trim Road.

Dates:
2014-2016 — 2014
Type/Formats:
Text — Folktale
Contributors:
Cheallaigh, — Kelly, Mary B. — Byrd, John — Ireland. Department of Arts, Culture, and the Gaeltacht — University College Dublin [ … ]
Abstract:
Story collected by Mary B. Kelly, a student at Walterstown school (Walterstown, Co. Meath) from informant John Byrd.
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25. At one time St. Senan's father had sown a field of wheat which was destroyed by crows rooting and carrying off the grain.

Dates:
2014-2016 — 2014
Type/Formats:
Text — Folktale
Contributors:
Cuinneagáin, Mícheál Ó — Cunningham, John — Ireland. Department of Arts, Culture, and the Gaeltacht — University College Dublin — National Folklore Foundation--Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann [ … ]
Abstract:
Story collected by John Cunningham, a student at Knockerra (B.) Killimer school (Knockerra, Co. Clare) (no informant identified).
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26. Pat O'Beirne of Gurteen carried sixty stone of wheat from end of a long barn to the other and back again...

Dates:
1937-1938 — 1937 — 2014-2016 — 2014
Type/Formats:
Text — Folktale
Contributors:
Buadhcháin, S. Ó — Bohan, Francis — Brien, Stephen O' — Ireland. Department of Arts, Culture, and the Gaeltacht — University College Dublin [ … ]
Abstract:
Story collected by Francis Bohan, a student at Nurney school (Nurney, Co. Kildare) from informant Stephen O' Brien.
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27. 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.

Dates:
1937-1938 — 1937 — 2014-2016 — 2014
Type/Formats:
Text — Folktale
Contributors:
Ceanntabhail, Dáithí Ó — Ireland. Department of Arts, Culture, and the Gaeltacht — University College Dublin — National Folklore Foundation--Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann
Abstract:
Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).
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28. They tell of a man who, mowing or reaping, I don't now recall which, when the "Shee Geehe" swept past him through the hay or the wheat, drew his scythe through the "blast".

Dates:
1937-1938 — 1937 — 2014-2016 — 2014
Type/Formats:
Text — Folktale
Contributors:
Ceanntabhail, Dáithí Ó — Donnell, Michael O — Ireland. Department of Arts, Culture, and the Gaeltacht — University College Dublin — National Folklore Foundation--Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann [ … ]
Abstract:
Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant Michael O Donnell.
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29. Response to a questionnaire compiled by the Irish Folklore Commission on the Irish Famine (1845-1852) in the province of Connacht/ From Mártan Aodh Ó Domhnaill

Type/Formats:
Text — Questionnaire
Contributors:
Irish Folklore Commission — Ó Domhnaill, Mártan Aodh — Manning, Martin — Keane, Michael — Keane, Pat [ … ]
Abstract:
Response to a questionnaire compiled by the Irish Folklore Commission on the Irish Famine (1845-1852) in the province of Connacht/ From Mártan Aodh Ó Domhnaill, Kilmeena, Westport, Co. Mayo, 29 May 1945. [ … ]
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30. Response to questionnaire from John McCarthy, Kilcoleman

Type/Formats:
Text — Questionnaire
Contributors:
Irish Folklore Commission — McCarthy, John — Murphy, Jeremiah
Abstract:
[Response to questionnaire from John McCarthy, Kilcoleman]