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The Schools’ Collection

This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s. More information

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  1. Regarding Dún Droma

    CBÉS 0797

    Andrew T. Walsh

    Dundrum, Co. Dublin

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    “According to Seán Kavanagh, an elderly resident, and the representative of the longest established family in Dundrum (he calculates that they are here for over 400 hundred years) there was a tradition that there was a church built in the present Churchtow”

    CBÉS 0797

    Andrew T. Walsh

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  3. Burial After Shooting of '16 Leaders

    CBÉS 0797

    Andrew T. Walsh, Canon Francis Farrington, Fr John Larkin

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  4. A Boy Hero of the Red Branch

    CBÉS 0797

    Margaret Murphy, Michael Kavanagh

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  5. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0797

    Hugh Flanagan

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    “Many years ago there was a very old woman lived in country.”

    CBÉS 0797

    Mrs Moore, Paddy Mason

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  7. The Hell Fire Club

    CBÉS 0797

    Mr Sommerville, Stewart Sommerville

    Hell Fire Club, Co. Dublin

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    “One night as I sat by the fire my brother asked my father would he tell a story.”

    CBÉS 0797

    John O' Keeffe

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  9. The Headless Horses

    CBÉS 0797

    James O' Leary, Mrs O' Leary

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    “Once in County Kilkenny there was a robber or highwayman known as Franey.”

    CBÉS 0797

    Billy Keogh, Mr Burke

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    “In the county of Meath there was once upon a time a great mountain that reared its lofty peak to the sky.”

    CBÉS 0797

    Robert Moore

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  12. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0797

    Patrick Lawless

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  13. The Pot of Gold

    CBÉS 0797

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  14. Folk Story

    CBÉS 0797

    Larry Eaton, Mr Eaton

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  15. (no title)

    “In the times of Dan O'Connell it was on the Day of Election.”

    CBÉS 0797

    Noel Mc Guinness

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  16. A Story My Mother Learned

    CBÉS 0797

    Noel Mc Guinness

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  17. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0797

    Noel Mc Guinness

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  18. Old Riddles

    CBÉS 0797

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    “Once upon a time there was a widow and her two sons who lived in a little town in the south of Ireland.”

    CBÉS 0797

    Gerard Begley, Mr T. Quinn

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  20. A Miser and His Hoard

    CBÉS 0797

    Gerald Rice

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