Micheál Flatley has a great reputation as a stonemason. His father and grandfather also worked with stone in an age where people had to do a bit of everything because money was scarce. Micheál discusses the craft of the stonemason. He always had a great admiration for stonework because it is so technical and much professional tuition is required to master it. The dry stone wall takes more skill to build than a mortar wall, he says. Micheál recalls some Halloween traditions and the games played in earlier times. A bath of water had coins put into it, which had to be taken out by mouth and an apple hung from a string had to be bitten without use of one’s hands. He also has memories of the travelling folk from the country who exchanged tin cans for a bit of food and hay for their ponies. Micheál discusses the holy wells and the tradition of people leaving three pebbles in a mound which eventually grew into a cairn. We hear of the folklore of monasteries, the Vikings and stories of forts and fairies.
Micheál Flatley
Micheál Flatley
€10.00 – €15.00
Additional information
Type: | Disk, MP3 |
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Audio series: | Sligo Heritage Collection, First Series |
Bitrate: | 160 kbps |
Download time limit: | 48 hours |
File size(s): | 20.10 MB, 17.96 MB, 10.49 MB, 20.73 MB, 16.76 MB |
Number of files: | 3 |
Product ID: | CDSL01-16 |
Subject: | A Stonemason, Local Historian and Folklorist |
Recorded by: | Joe McGowan |