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1937 Dunbeacon, Parish of Schull,  Mary Joe Moynihan, School Folklore Project. Names: Collins, Connell, Driscoll,  Finn, Levis, Lucy, Maguire, McCarthy, Moynihan, O’Brien, Nugent, Pyburn, O’Sullivan, Roycroft, Scofield, Lucky Days for Marriage Thursday and Saturday, Flax Meitheals, Old Cures, Deaths at Dereenlomane Barytes Mines, Wreck of Memphis,

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Thanks to Brendan O’Dwyer.

 

1937, Dunbeacon School Folklore Project, Mary Joe Moynihan

 

Bramáir draim, scutch grass

Buacalánn na neascann,blots out mark of sore

Cleas na Peíste,cure for animals.

Feamaánac, cure for rheumatism

Fionnán cupóg, long coarse white grass.

Foghmar na nGeídhna, hard and quick days after harvest.

Noínín, daisy herb

Riouán, flour.

 

Irish words in Durrus, Dunbeacon etc:

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dLSWVUsYRVa2ViKqOHyj5sl6Plz-tzLLVgpQgU3gvQM/edit

 

 

 

Taking a ‘Greas’ at the Butter being Churned before the Days of the Creamery, from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork.

1938 School Folklore Project, Sarah Dukelow, Clashadoo, Durrus, Co. Cork.

The End of Gaeltacht an Aird, Clonakilty, West Cork, School Folklore Collection, Water from a Foot Bath, The Magic of May Day, Voyage to Ring, The Curse of Castlefreke Wood, Lament for Father Power.

 

Spinning and Weaving John and Isaac Johnson and John Croston Weavers of Old from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork. From Breda McCarthy, Coolcuaghta.