‘Skimming the Well’ (Launch Compilation) - A collection of folklore from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

‘Skimming the Well’ is a collection of superstitions and beliefs which were recorded and produced by Michael Fortune in June 2016 with residents from Marion Court and Morton Street in Clonmel, County Tipperary.
Featured in this collection are a variety of redundant and practiced beliefs which have been edited into a sixty minute compilation. A shorter edit of this collection will be screened at the official launch of the project on the 5th of July.
The collection was commissioned by The Junction Festival in 2016 and supported by Clonmel Voluntary Housing Association and Tipperary County Council.
The entire collection can be viewed from 10am - 6pm daily up until Sunday the 10th of July. Admission is free and all welcome.
The collection features stories and accounts from: Margaret Chadfield, Fran Sheehan, Mary Millet, Máire McCarthy, Helen Lonergan, Stephen Fahy, Brenda McGrath, Christy Crotty, Eddie O'Neill, Pauline Bourke, Mary Connolly and Lena Carey.

[@sheilaryan1188]

Thank you for these fantastic stories about superstitions and beliefs. I remember a few from my Grandmother and Father who are from Clonmel. Would be a great book to collect all of them from Tipperary and Clomel . Thank you

[@briancphelan3121]

Ghost Stories
There was a woman whose name was Mrs Brunicardi. She lived up by the Cashel Road. She used to be always saying the Rosary up and down the avenue. After she died my sister was going up for the milk. She saw the woman on her knees saying the Rosary up and down the avenue the same way.
Veronica Byrne, 10 Glenconnor, Clonmel
Information received from Mrs Byrne
National Schools Folklore Collection, 1938

[@Whiskeygalore24]

Lovely to see Stephen Fahy he used to give us white Holly at Christmas from a secret Bush he found in the mountains RIP

[@danb7601]

Hi Michael love your work, have you heard any stories of fetches or forerunners/wraiths? Those apparitions which announce their death, then the person finds out they had actually died on that day?

[@christopherrainbow3113]

Thank you so much!

[@stephencrweir]

saturday flit, short sit

[@chriscoughlan5221]

and not a mention of a banshee!

[@stephencooper3480]

Michael don’t want to sound ungrateful but you need to improve the sound quality

[@michaelfortunefolklore]

These are field recordings. Accept that and move on.

[@mazzab1970]

Nice accents.