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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. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0412

    Mrs John Carroll

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  2. A Story

    “Long ago an old man named Fitzgerald lived in West Kerry.”

    CBÉS 0412

    Eileen O' Sullivan, Mrs M.B. Brosnan, Patrick Leahy

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  3. A Funny Story

    CBÉS 0412

    Timothy O' Donovan

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  4. (no title)

    “Some years ago my father- Thomas Laelor- and Patsy Carroll Lerrig were returning from Ardfert between the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock.”

    CBÉS 0412

    Maura Lawlor, Thomas Lawlor

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  5. The Story of The Bloodstained Wall

    CBÉS 0412

    Mr Daniel Costello, Noreen Griffin

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  6. Story

    “There was a fort in my father's farm in the third field to the north of the house and there was a small little man with a green cap and a red coat seen running around it.”

    CBÉS 0412

    John Nolan, Patrick Nolan

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  7. Story

    “There was a man one time in the parish of Kilmoyley who was a mystery man.”

    CBÉS 0412

    Ned Nolan, Patrick E. Nolan

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  8. (no title)

    “Long ago there lived a man who would now be 115 years if he lived named Denny Nolan near the Demense in Ardfert.”

    CBÉS 0412

    John Ryall, Patrick J. Ryall

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  9. Jack o' the Lantern

    CBÉS 0412

    Sheila Ryall, Tom Sullivan

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  10. A Fairy Story

    CBÉS 0412

    Hugh Ryle, Mary Connell

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  11. A Funny Story

    CBÉS 0412

    Joe Nolan, Timothy Donovan

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  12. The Plains of O'Dorney

    CBÉS 0412

    Edmond Mahony, Joe Nolan

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  13. Molly Laoghaire

    CBÉS 0412

    Hugh Ryle, Joe Nolan, Mrs M.B. Brosnan

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  14. Riddles

    CBÉS 0412

    Brendan Sugrue

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    “The King of Spain, he built a ship ¶ An' in it his daughter lies ¶ An' I'd be afraid to tell her name ¶ An' I've been told her name three times”

    CBÉS 0412

    Ned Sheehan

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  16. Fair Ellen

    CBÉS 0412

    Eileen O' Sullivan, Hugh Ryle, Mrs M.B. Brosnan

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  17. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0412

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  18. Local Heroes

    CBÉS 0412

    Ned Dowling, Ned Sheehan

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  19. Local Heroes

    “Sheon Burns a native of this place was supposed to be the strongest man in his generation.”

    CBÉS 0412

    Ina O' Connor

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  20. Local Heroes

    “There was a Mrs O'Sullivan in Lerrig in Ardfert district some years ago and she had a daughter four years old who had a very sore leg.”

    CBÉS 0412

    Joe Nolan, Mrs O' Connor, Thomas Lawlor

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