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

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    “There is a tower in Clane, and there once stood a great monastery. There is a winding stairs in the tower.”

    CBÉS 0773

    Patrick Condron

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    “About a mile north of Clane there is a place called Maingham. This was the burial place of Danish Kings.”

    CBÉS 0773

    Patrick Curry, William Graham

    Mainham, Co. Kildare

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    “Near the Curragh there is place) a place called Donnelly's Hollow.”

    CBÉS 0773

    Anne Byrne, Patrick Brearton

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    “In Rathcoffey there is the ruins of a great castle. Hamilton Rowan lived there.”

    CBÉS 0773

    Patrick Graham, Robert Dunne

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    “Blackwood is a very histor-ical place. There is an old castle there.”

    CBÉS 0773

    Patrick Condron

    Blackwood, Co. Kildare

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    “Before Newbridge was founded it was called O'Connell Mór.”

    CBÉS 0773

    Laurence O' Neill

    Droichead Nua (Newbridge), Co. Kildare

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    “Newbridge is not a very ancient town. It was called O'Connell Mór formerly.”

    CBÉS 0773

    Laurence O' Neill

    Droichead Nua (Newbridge), Co. Kildare

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    “There were foctroies in Prosperous long ago, a hat factory, a cotton factory, and a linen factory.”

    CBÉS 0773

    W. Fallon

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    “Wolfe Tone was a traitor to the English, he was in the English army.”

    CBÉS 0773

    Thomas Walsh

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    “There is a well in Landenstown and it was used by a woman named Mrs Digby who lived there.”

    CBÉS 0773

    Thomas Walsh

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    “There is a cross about a quarter of a mile from Prosperous and it is called Hatter's Cross...”

    CBÉS 0773

    Thomas Fitzpatrick

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    “To see one magpie on a journey is said to be lucky but to see two magpies is unlucky.”

    CBÉS 0773

    Patrick Hughes

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    “There were many battles in Prosperous in the time of the Old Britons.”

    CBÉS 0773

    W. Fallon

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    “There was a large factory at the Hatter's-cross called the hat factory.”

    CBÉS 0773

    Patrick Condron

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    “In Curryhills there was a linen factory. Between Sallins and Landenstown there is a well and...”

    CBÉS 0773

    Patrick Condron

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    “There lived in Killybegs long ago a Priest named Rev. Father Higgins.”

    CBÉS 0773

    Thomas Fitzpatrick

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    “There is a cure used by an old woman in Prosperous for a sore throat.”

    CBÉS 0773

    Teresa Muldoon

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    “There is a castle in Blackwood which belonged to the Fitzgeralds of Leinster.”

    CBÉS 0773

    Daniel Neill

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    “Cornelius Kay was a hadge school master in Prosperous and he was a great poet.”

    CBÉS 0773

    Thomas Fitzpatrick

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    “In the centre of Killybegs graveyard there stands the remains of a once beautiful Catholic Church.”

    CBÉS 0773

    Mrs A. Mc Carthy

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