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

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May Day

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

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

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May Day

On May morning the people used never throw out ashes....INFORMANT Patrick Reilly; male, Age; 87, Prison North, Co. Mayo

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Story of a Fort

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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

A Story

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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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

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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

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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

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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