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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. Old Sayings and Superstitions

    CBÉS 1095

    Frankie O' Flaherty, Mrs M. O' Flaherty

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  2. St Brigid's Well

    CBÉS 1095

    Brigid Kerrigan, Frankie O' Flaherty

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  3. Practices at Well

    CBÉS 1095

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  4. Donegal Fairy Bush Mystery

    CBÉS 1095

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  5. Story

    “About eighty years ago a small woman called at the house of Johnston Kilpatrick Cappery.”

    CBÉS 1095

    Gerald Mc Dermott, Mr John Mc Nulty

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  6. Story

    “It was custom long ago to put the tongs over the cradle when going out in case some evil might happen to the child.”

    CBÉS 1095

    Gerald Mc Dermott, Mr John Mc Nulty

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  7. Story

    “Once upon a time there was a man living in Goland.”

    CBÉS 1095

    Gerald Mc Dermott, John Mc Nulty

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  8. Story

    “About 30 years ago there was a man living in Tievockmoy.”

    CBÉS 1095

    Gerald Mc Dermott, John Mc Nulty

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  9. Story

    “There was a man in Corleckey Welshtown, Co Donegal named Tom Patton who used to buy his milk and flour in a house ...”

    CBÉS 1095

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  10. Story

    “There was a man named Donal Ceann living in Glenfinn and he could neither read nor write.”

    CBÉS 1095

    Mrs Gallinagh, Patrick Murphy

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  11. Signs of Weather

    CBÉS 1095

    Mrs Gallinagh, Patrick Murphy

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  12. Basket-Making

    CBÉS 1095

    Eunan Mc Mullin, Miss M Devanney

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  13. Abbey Well

    CBÉS 1095

    Miss W. Bonar, Sean Kelly

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  14. Story

    “In olden days - about one hundred and thirty years ago - when the Catholic clergy were on the run ...”

    CBÉS 1095

    Miss E. Leeker, Paddy Murphy

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  15. Funny Story

    CBÉS 1095

    Paddy Murphy, Peter Martin

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  16. Funny Story

    CBÉS 1095

    Gerald Mc Dermott, John Mc Nulty

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    “In the town of Ballybofey, Co Donegal lived a tailor, named Johnnie Reid.”

    CBÉS 1095

    Anthony Timony, Sean Kelly

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  18. Cures

    CBÉS 1095

    Mrs F. Gallinagh, Paddy Murphy

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  19. Town of Stranorlar, Co. Donegal

    CBÉS 1095

    Anthony Timony, Dr P. S. Kerrigan

    Stranorlar, Co. Donegal

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  20. Cures

    CBÉS 1095

    Eunan Mc Mullin, Miss M. Devanney

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