Easter Sunday

On Easter Sunday morning we first go to Mass. when we come home we have our breakfast. We make a fire, and we make tea and we have sweet-cakes and eggs in a field if the day is fine.

Theresa Kelly, The Schools’ Collection, National Folklore Collect, Local Area, Festivals, Feasts, EasterTeresa Kelly21 March 2021Easter Sunday, Easter, Feasts, Feast daysComment

Riddles

Riddles, National Folklore Collect, Games, Annie McNicholasAnnie Mc Nicholas16 March 2021Riddles, Games, John Mc NicholasComment

St. Patricks day

On St. Patrick's day all the girls wear blue ribbons and the boys gather sham-rock for their jackets.

Festivals, National Folklore Collect, Country Life, Dùchas.ieDúchas14 March 2021Annie M. Reilly, Prison North, Mary Kate Kelly, Patsy Ansbro, Festivals, St. Patricks DayComment

The Famine

About 96 years ago there was a great famine in Ireland. The potatoes and all the crops rotted. The people were starving and dying with the hunger.

INFORMANT: Mr Ruane, Age 48, Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo

National Folklore Collect, Farming, Country Life, Dùchas.ie, Margaret Ruane, History & FolkoreMargaret Ruane9 September 2018Mr Ruane, history, social, FamineComment

Local Marriage Customs

The marriage of my uncle and aunt took place a year ago in the parish of Balla, in the month of April. They had 4 motorcars and thirty of the nearest relations with them.

INFORMANT: Mrs Ruane, Age 50, Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo

Dùchas.ie, Country Life, Marriage, National Folklore Collect, School Collection, The Schools’ Collection, Customs & CuresMargaret Ruane8 September 2018Marriage, Local heros, Mrs RuaneComment

My Home District

My home district is in the Parish of Straide the Barony of Gallen the town land of Tabhanachmóre Co;Mayo.

COLLECTOR: Margaret Ruane, Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo

Margaret Ruane, Local Area, National Folklore Collect, School Collection, The Schools’ Collection, Dùchas.ieMargaret Ruane7 September 2018Place Names, Loughill, Cregg, KearnsComment

Riddles

INFORMANT; Thomas Reilly, male, Age 42, Prison North, Co. Mayo

Annie Reilly, Dùchas.ie, Gleann an Dúin - Prison, National Folklore Collect, School Life, School CollectionAnnie M. Reilly5 May 2018RiddlesComment

Local Games

Geney Joe.- At first two girls sit on a chair one holding the other.

INFORMANT: Mrs Kearns, Age 40, Manulla, Co. Mayo

National Folklore Collect, Dùchas.ie, School Collection, School LifeMargaret Kearns5 May 2018Games, school daysComment

A Tailor

About seventy years ago there was a tailor in Fargureens on the Parish of Balla in the barony of Carra named Micheal Reilly. He was never called but "Micheal an tailliúir."

INFORMANT: Mrs Kearns, Age 40, Manulla, Co. Mayo

National Folklore Collect, Margaret Kearns, School Collection, Co. Mayo, Dùchas.ie, Country Life, Shops, The Schools’ Collection, Local Heroes, History & FolkoreMargaret Kearns4 May 2018Tailor, ShopsComment

May Day

On May Day nobody cleans out a cow-house or throws out ashes

INFORMANT: Mrs Kearns, Age 40, Manulla, Co. Mayo

National Folklore Collect, Margaret Kearns, Dùchas.ie, School Collection, Country Life, Festivals, Feasts, History & FolkoreMargaret Kearns1 May 2018May, MAYDAY, May DayComment

A Spinning Wheel

A spinning wheel stands on four-legged stool four feet long by one foot wide and a foot and a half in height.

INFORMANT: Mrs Michael Kennedy, Age 35, Rush Hill, Co. Mayo

Country Life, Crafts, Dùchas.ie, Gleann an Dúin - Prison, National Folklore CollectBridgie Kennedy28 April 2018Craft, Spinning wheelComment

Landlords

Sir Robert Lynch Bloose who lived in Ball about 35 years ago was a Land-Lord. His wife Lady Harriet was born in Westport.

INFORMANT: Mary Mc Donnell, Age 77, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo

Country Life, Dùchas.ie, Local Area, My Native village, National Folklore Collect, School Collection, The Schools’ CollectionMay Adams28 April 2018Landlords, Mary Mc DonnellComment

A Lightning Storm

One night about sixty years ago a great lightning storm arose. There was an old man and an old woman in Roxtown near Balla.

INFORMANT: Mary Mc Donnell Age, 76 Prison North, Co. Mayo

History & Folklore, Local Area, National Folklore Collect, School Collection, Weather-lore, The Schools’ Collection, Dùchas.ie, Jimmie AdamsJimmie Adams27 April 2018Lighting storm, Mary McDonnellComment

A Fairy Story

Once upon a time a widow and her son were living in a little cottage. The man went out in a field scoring for potatoes. There was a bush in the middle of the field in his way and he dug it up. INFORMANT: Mary Mc Donnell Age, 76 Prison North, Co. Mayo

Jimmie Adams, Dùchas.ie, Fairy Stories, National Folklore Collect, Stories, The Schools’ CollectionJimmie Adams27 April 2018Fairies, Story, Mary McDonnellComment

A Holy Well

Long ago there was a holy well in Galway with a wall round it.

One day a woman washed her feet in it, and the following morning it had changed down to the town of Balla.
INFORMANT: Mary McDonnell, Age 77, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo