About three hundred years ago a man named Pat Bourke went out visiting. It was about twelve o'clock when he was coming home, and he saw a Leprechaun sitting under a mushroom mending shoes.
INFORMANT: Martin Ansbro, Age 74, Dooros, Co. Mayo
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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
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There was once a man named Sean. He was a shoemaker by trade and he was very poor.
He used to go out visiting every night
INFORMANT: Martin Ansbro, Age 74, Dooros, Co. Mayo
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About one hundred years ago there lived a man in England. He heard that there were very old people in Ireland and he came home to see them.
INFORMANT: Martin Ansbro, Age 74, Dooros, Co. Mayo
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Just opposite Mr Fitzgerald's house of Turlo Co. Mayo there is a lake called Poll an Dailtín.
INFORMANT: Mrs Adams, Age 40, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo
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All the men went out before their breakfasts and did about an hour's work, and then they came into a good breakfast of potatoes and milk, or oatmeal stirabout.
INFORMANT: Mary Mc Donnell, Age 77, Prison North, Co. Mayo
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In the village of Ara Co Mayo there was a man called James Reddington.....
INFORMANT: Martin Ansbro, Age 74, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo
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This village of Prizon North is the barony of Carra, in the parish of Balla, Co. Mayo.
Maisie Reilly Address, Prison North, Co. Mayo
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In my Grandmothers and Grandfathers time the people were very plain and simple. They walked to church to be married.
INFORMANT: Martin Corcoran, Age; 35, Prizon, Balla, Co. Mayo
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There was a field in which she was very fond of resting. It is called Cow-park ever since.
INFORMANT: Martin Corcoran, Age; 35, Prizon, Balla, Co. Mayo
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Great Story about treasure Told by Edward Reilly and written down by Maise Reilly
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Fógmhar beag na ngaetheadh. When the wheat and oats etc are gathered the geese are let into the stubble's and that is called The Harvest of the geese.
INFORMANT: Mary Mc Donnell, Age 77, Address, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo
There was a Jack Mahon in Ballymahon, Balla parish , who was supposed to have a "charm" for mowing. He would whet his scythe in the morning and mow till night and he could do as much work in one day as two men would do in two days.
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