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.

Pooka Daunt's Ghost:

When Pooka Daunt died his ghost used haunt the place around his house and would not allow anyone to cut down trees or anything else. There was a man who also was named Daunt and he went with another man to cut a tree. When they were cutting the tree Pooka's ghost came on top of it but they never saw him till they had the tree cut down and he would not let them take it away. They never took it away afterwards because they were afraid.

A Protestant people named Kingstons came from Bandon to live in Pooka Daunts house. They brought two Catholic maids with them. The first night spent in the house the maids could not sleep. About midnight they heard all the laughing on the stairs and a football rolled into the room with fairies and Pooka Daunt following it. They could not sleep at all that night. When morning came they got a bottle of holy water. When the mistress saw it she threw it from the top of the stairs to the pavement below but it was not broken. She then threw it into a deep well but a workman went down on a rope for it.

Original story can be found at: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4921896/4899338/5182265

Map of Scéal Trail can be downloaded from:

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

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