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
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Three drops out of a trout's mouth, or the ferrets leavings will cure whooping cough.
INFORMANT: Annie Kelly, Address, Prison North, Co. Mayo
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One night there were two boys coming home from visiting. It was about twelve o'clock. They heard lovely music inside; they listened for a while and they began to dance. When they started they could not stop until the cock crew in the morning. After that they were the best dancers in the country. INFORMANT: John Kelly, Address, Prison North, Co. Mayo
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The following are the names of the birds most frequently found in Prison.
COLLECTOR: Mary Kate Kelly, Address: Prison North, Co. Mayo
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A week before the marriage took place the match was made. The two parties met at some house. They agreed for a certain sum of money. About £50 was a good fortune that time. Then a day was appointed for the marriage.
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Once upon a time there was a man who had three sons.
When the eldest of them was twenty-one his father thought it was time for him to go and seek his fortune, so he gave him a hound a hawk and a filly and his blessing and he set off on his way. He travelled along for a week and a day till he came to a rich farmer's house.
INFORMANT: Tom Adams, Age 47, Prison North, Co. Mayo
INFORMANT Patrick Reilly; male, Age; 87, Prison North, Co. Mayo
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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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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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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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INFORMANT: Mrs Adams, Dooros, Co. Mayo
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INFORMANT: Mrs Adams, Age 33, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo
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There is a forge near Balla in Co. Mayo. In that forge there is a large fire-place in which they build a fire of coal..
INFORMANT: Martin Corcoran, Age; 35, Prizon, Balla, 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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Long ago there lived a very wicked man in Ballintubber, Co. Mayo named Seán A Sagart
INFORMANT Mrs Kearns, Age; 40, Carra, Co. Mayo
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INFORMANT: Mrs Corcoran, Age; 32, Prizon, Balla, 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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When my father goes to prepare land for potatoes he first ploughs the field with a plough drawn by two horses.
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What is the first thing you do when you fall in the water?
Mr Tom Adams, Age 45, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo