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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. The Blessed Well in Kilshinane

    CBÉS 0409

    Bridie Flaherty, Mrs Ellen Foley

    Kilshenane, Co. Kerry

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  2. An Old Story

    CBÉS 0409

    Bridie Flaherty, Thomas Fitzmaurice

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  3. The Diet of the Old Irish People

    CBÉS 0409

    Bridie Flaherty, Mrs Ellen Foley

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  4. An Old Story

    CBÉS 0409

    Bridie Flaherty, Denis Flaherty

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  5. (no title)

    “My father knows a man in the Lixnaw parish who had his coffin made for twenty years, and died a few years ago.”

    CBÉS 0409

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  6. Folklore - The Local Cures

    CBÉS 0409

    Bridie Flaherty, Mrs Ellen Foley

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  7. Names of Fields

    CBÉS 0409

    Bridie Flaherty, Denis Flaherty

    Dromclogh, Co. Kerry

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  8. Starchmaking

    CBÉS 0409

    Bridie Flaherty, Mrs Ellen Foley

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  9. Folklore - Signs and Omens

    CBÉS 0409

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  10. Local Practices

    CBÉS 0409

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  11. An Old Story

    CBÉS 0409

    Mrs Ellen Foley

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  12. Names of Cows

    CBÉS 0409

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  13. St Bridget's Brat

    CBÉS 0409

    Mrs Ellen Foley

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  14. About a Horse

    CBÉS 0409

    Bridie Flaherty

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    “When a person died in a house the bed clothes were folded back; then when the corpse was cold it was washed.”

    CBÉS 0409

    Bridie Flaherty, Mrs Ellen Foley

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  16. An Old Story

    CBÉS 0409

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  17. Cure for Rotha Péiste in a Calf

    CBÉS 0409

    Mrs Mary Kirby

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  18. An Old Story

    CBÉS 0409

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  19. The Hedge-Schools

    CBÉS 0409

    Bridie Flaherty, Mrs Mary Lynch

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  20. Cures

    CBÉS 0409

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