The Schools’ Collection

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

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    The protestant church in Ballysax was once a Catholic Church.

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    Miss Kathleen Cullen

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    In Ballyfair House, now uninhabitable, and during the European war used as British G.O.C residence...

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    Mrs Fogarty

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    About 500 yds from the school a bend in the road is called the 'Black Turn'.

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    Brownstown Upper, Co. Kildare

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    Mr Carolan, an ex-British Army Schoolmaster, who lived in the Curragh Camp one time, says that in the penal days...

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    Mr Carolan

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    Mr Kerins (aged 38) a native of Kildare Towns lives near Waverly. He says that it was believed long ago before he came to Waverly that a crock of gold was buried in the Mr Pallin's field, in Waverly.

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    Mrs Feard

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    Brownstown House is built on the site of a smaller house, occupied in the Penal Days by a woman whose son was a priest.

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    Mrs Fogarty

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    The great-aunt of a pupil (Anna Moran) lives in a small farmhouse in Ballysax.

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  8. Local Cures

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    For many years old people could point out a spot on the Curragh as the grave of a priest killed at the Rath in 1798.

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    A big stone on the top of a hill called Knockaulin, between Ballysax and Old Kilcullen...

    CBÉS 0777

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