Loughshinny

Weather-Lore -- Weather-Lore -- Weather-Lore -- Weather-Lore -- Weather-Lore -- Weather-Lore -- Shipwrecks / Nally, Thomas Mac -- Shipwrecks -- Shipwrecks -- Shipwrecks -- Shipwrecks -- Riddles -- Riddles -- Riddles -- Many years ago the people had no lamps or parafin oil to burn in them. -- Riddles / Christie, John -- One time there was a man named Val Collins who got a woar on the strand. -- One night about (thri) thirty-three years ago my father went out to milk the cows. -- One winter's night about twenty years ago a man named John Farrell, Baldungan, Lusk, Co Dublin walked across the fields to Rush. -- In the year 1895 about two o'clock on a September evening a Loughshinny fisher-man was coming home from the Dublin fish market on his horse and cart. -- Marriage Customs -- Big Wind -- Local Place Names -- Local Place Names -- Names of Fields -- Names of Fields -- Local Cures -- Local Cures -- Local Cures -- Local Forge -- Local Cures -- Local Cures -- Local Forge -- Local Forge -- Local Forge -- Local Forge -- Bird-Lore -- Bird-Lore -- Bird-Lore -- Potato Crops -- Potato Crops -- Farm Animals -- Care of Feet -- Care of Feet -- Care of Feet -- Herbs -- Herbs -- Herbs -- Herbs -- Proverbs -- Proverbs -- Proverbs -- Proverbs -- Proverbs -- Proverbs -- Clothes -- Clothes -- Clothes -- Clothes -- Local Patron Saint -- Local Patron Saint -- Local Patron Saint -- Games / Ryan, Jack -- Games / Nally, Thomas Mc -- Games / Nally, Laurence Mc -- Games / Christie, Bree -- Games / Coleman, May -- Food in Olden Times -- Food in Olden Times -- Food in Olden Times -- Food in Olden Times -- Food in Olden Times -- Bread -- Food in the Olden Times -- Food in Olden Times -- Buying and Selling -- Old Houses
A collection of folklore and local history stories from Loughshinny (school) (Loughshinny, Co. Dublin), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher James Monks.
Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.