Old Sayings

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

Jimmie Adams, The Schools’ Collection, Dùchas.ie, Customs & CuresJimmie Adams20 May 2018old saying, Mary McDonnellComment

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