Scéal Trail – Creative Bandon wanted to highlight the wonderful Dúchas tales from the Bandon area. Scéál tells the story of our cultural heritage in a contemporary way, bringing the best of Irish Street Artists together to create murals inspired by the stories of Bandon from the National Folklore Collection. As part of Creative Bandon’s passion for place making, Zoe Tennyson and Neasa Madden O’Connor mined the National Duchas folklore database for local folk lore about Bandon. Creative Bandon worked with artists GW Joyce and Kevin O’Brien to create these vibrant, contemporary interpretations of these old folk tales, strengthening our unique connection with the town we live in.

In 2021 in celebration of Culture Night and with the support and funding of Cork County Council Arts Office they commissioned David Jackson to create a reimaging of these tales and created a storytelling trail highlighting these tales.

Join David on a walking tour of Bandon as he weaves a tale based on the original Dúchas tales used to create the contemporary street art images for Bandon’s Scéal Trail. Based on the original folklore tales gathered by Bandon children as part of the folklore collection 1937-1939, re retells the stories with a modern twist.

Each of the 7 stops/episodes on a single image and story.

Ghost Stories

Once upon a time a protestant man named Jerry Bird lived a Crossmahon. He did something to altar of the chapel and a big long tail grew on him. A week before he died he was barking like a dog. When he died there was a big black doc seen walking up and down the road every night.

Along time ago a man sold his garden. The man that bought it from him fell sick and he asked the gardener to mind it for him. He said he would mind it for him dead and alive. The gardener died and when he died a big black dog used to be seen sitting up on the ditch every night. One night a man was coming from Crossmahon on a saddle horse. He saw the dog on the ditch. The dog jumped off the ditch and followed the man. The man made the horse run and the dog ran. He made the horse walk and the dog walked. After a while he took out his rosary beeds and began to pray. When he began to come near his own gate the dog kicked gravel up in the air and disappeared.

One about twelve o-clock to men were going to Bandon fair and they saw a woman washing clothes in a stream. One man said to her in the name of God wasn't it early in the morning she was out. She hit the bittle on the water and wet them all.

Original story can be found at: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4921639/4887186/5162674

Map of Scéal Trail can be downloaded from:

https://www.bandonhistory.com/_files/ugd/190fcf_7257a182680140f48d7ee6cb65883012.pdf

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