The Schools’ Collection

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

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  1. (no title)

    In Toughmaconnell there lived a farmer who had a numbe of milch-cows.

    CBÉS 0046

    Séamus Ó Conghaile, William Harney

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    Lios na nUan is a place where children who weren't baptised were buried and it was also a place where the clergy used to hide during the Penal Laws.

    CBÉS 0046

    Michael Leonard, Séamus Ó Conghaile

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    There is a big rock in a filed near Ahascragh and it is said that this is how it got there.

    CBÉS 0046

    James Mc Loughlin, Séamus Ó Conghaile

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  4. May Eve

    CBÉS 0046

    John Carroll, Séamus Ó Conghaile

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  5. St Cuan - Patron of Parish

    CBÉS 0046

    Patrick Gordon, Séamus Ó Conghaile

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    The monks of Eglish Abbey long ago kept doves a smessangers to go from one place to another with messages under their wings.

    CBÉS 0046

    Pat Harry, Séamus Ó Conghaile

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    the monks who lived in the Abbey at Eglish were accustomed to visit the old blessed wells for the old people tell us of their habits in this respect.

    CBÉS 0046

    Brian Mc Dermott

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  8. Lioses

    CBÉS 0046

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  9. Lios

    CBÉS 0046

    John Dillon, Mrs James Mc Loughlin, Séamus Ó Conghaile

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    The Dillon family of Clonbrack got the Clonbrack property from a family of the O'Kellys who were the original owners

    CBÉS 0046

    Séamus Ó Conghaile

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