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

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  1. Hidden Gold

    CBÉS 1083

    Jane Mc Daid, Mrs Mc Daid

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  2. Names of Places

    CBÉS 1083

    Jane Mc Daid, Mrs Mc Daid

    Tullychullion, Co. Donegal

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  3. Short Funny Stories

    CBÉS 1083

    Jane Mc Daid, Mrs Mc Daid

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  4. Finding of Coins and Other Articles in Bog

    CBÉS 1083

    Jane Mc Daid, Mrs Mc Daid

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  5. About the Fairies

    CBÉS 1083

    Jane Mc Daid, Mrs Mc Daid

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    “Columcille was born in Gartan, and to the present day the Gartan Clay can be got only by people of the name "O'Friel", as that was his people's name.”

    CBÉS 1083

    Jane Mc Daid, Mrs Mc Daid

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  7. Guesses

    CBÉS 1083

    Jane Mc Daid, Mrs Mc Daid

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  8. Proverbs

    CBÉS 1083

    Jane Mc Daid, Mrs Mc Daid

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  9. Fields with Strange Names

    CBÉS 1083

    Jane Mc Daid, Mrs Mc Daid

    Tullychullion, Co. Donegal

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  10. Cures

    CBÉS 1083

    Jane Mc Daid, Mrs Mc Daid

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  11. Holy Wells

    CBÉS 1083

    Jane Mc Daid, Mrs Mc Daid

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  12. Signs of Weather

    CBÉS 1083

    Jane Mc Daid, Mrs Mc Daid

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  13. Lucky and Unlucky Things

    CBÉS 1083

    Jane Mc Daid, Mrs Mc Daid

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  14. Mass Rocks

    CBÉS 1083

    Jane Mc Daid, Mrs Mc Daid

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  15. Ghost Stories

    CBÉS 1083

    Jane Mc Daid, Mrs Mc Daid

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  16. Old Dwellings

    CBÉS 1083

    Jane Mc Daid, Mrs Mc Daid

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    “On Mayeve if you pull a piece of yarrow and say the following verse and put the yarrow under your pillow that night, you will dream of your future wife or husband.”

    CBÉS 1083

    Jane Mc Daid, Mrs Mc Daid

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  18. An Underground Cave

    CBÉS 1083

    James Harkin, Jane Mc Daid

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  19. Old Customs

    CBÉS 1083

    James Harkin, Jane Mc Daid

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  20. Old Story

    “One time there was a woman who had an article with seven "bratog bhríghdes" on it.”

    CBÉS 1083

    James Harkin, Jane Mc Daid

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