Folklore · County Carlow

Folklore and traditions of County Carlow

4 sites with recorded traditions.

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4 sites in County Carlow with traditions recorded by the Archaeological Survey. County Carlow guide.

Local traditions 3 Beliefs and sayings 2 Healing wells and cures 1 Pattern days and rounds 1

Quoted from the Archaeological Survey of Ireland (or, when marked, from visitors): what people said or believed about a place, not historical fact. Reference codes and citations are in each site’s full record.

County Carlow

Templenaboe Church

Ancient church · Templenaboe, Co. Carlow

Church reputed to have been built by St Mullin in thanksgiving for abolition of the Boromhu tribute.

Beliefs and sayings

Ballymoon Castle

Castle · Ballymoon, Co. Carlow

Leask recorded the local tradition that the castle was never finished however he concluded that although ‘the point may never be settled satisfactorily but there is ground for believing that the castle was occupied’.

Local traditions

St Moling's Well

Holy well · St. Mullin'S, Co. Carlow

Folklore collected in 1937 from Newtown School, Borris recorded the following tradition about this well; 'About one hundred and fifty years ago a man by the name of William Nood lived in Dublin he was a protestant One day as he…

Healing wells and curesLocal traditions

Garryhill House

Castle · Garryhill, Co. Carlow

According to local tradition, stood adjacent to Garryhill House.

Beliefs and sayingsLocal traditions