Síolach

Irish Words in Common Use in Locality -- Place Names -- Local Superstitions -- Wakes -- Weackie (bhacach) a nickname given to a girl who lived around here about eighty years ago. -- One evening Pat McArdle was going to the shop for bread and when he was passing Quinn's fort he saw a crowd of little men dancing round a bush. -- Once upon a time there was a widow woman and her son living in a small house. -- Once upon a time there was an old man and his son living in a small house. -- Once upon a time there lived a King who had three sons. -- Once upon a time when a tramp tailor went into a house the child was crying and the mother said it was always crying like that. -- Once upon a time a crowd of people were playing cards in a house and when they were playing some time one of the players was geting all the tricks by fraud. -- Once upon a time there was a man coming home from playing cards and when he was passing through a wood he saw a little man with a very little table and the little man asked the other man for the pack of cards that he had in his pocket. -- Old Riddles -- Local Heroes -- Severe Weather - Big Wind of 1839 -- Old Schools -- Black Bull / Ghnimh, Máighread Bean Uí -- Wee Bannock / Ghnimh, Máighread Bean Uí -- Barley Grain -- Fairy Tale -- Seán Gabha - The Blacksmith -- Fairy Tale -- Rathfriland on the Hill -- Charming Wee Maid of Dunleer -- Once upon a time there was a man who had three sons and they were very poor. -- Once upon a time there was a girl coming home from America and she stayed overnight in England. -- One Christmas Eve Patrick Duffy went down to Sheelagh yard and before he left the house he saw the church all lighted up but when he went up to the chapel yard he found that there were no lights atall. -- Local Stories about Fairies -- A man named Matthews, a native of Shanmullagh, Dundalk was a carter on the road. -- Mary Ralph Coulter, Carrickastuck, Dundalk who lived there about eighty years ago could turn herself into a hare. -- Derryfalone Hackballs Cross - Buck Foster - Landlord and Law-Maker -- Fosters -- The O Callaghan's were the landlords in the Shelagh District. -- Local Blacksmiths -- Local Mass Rock -- Cow Illnesses and Cures -- Cure of Cassidy's Clothes -- Cure of the Man-Creeper -- Cure of Rupture -- Cure of Jaundice -- Local Superstitions - Cures -- May Bush -- Wind -- Moon