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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. (no title)

    “There is a fort in Direen and one day Jack Shine and some others went digging it.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly, Timothy Kennelly

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    “There is a cnocán in Ned Ahearn's field in Direen.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly, Mrs Kennelly

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    “People usually get married during Lent.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly, Timothy Kennelly

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    “If a person having the chin cough drank the leavings of a ferret's milk, he would be cured.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly, Patrick Mc Mahon

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    “Falling soot is a sign of rain.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly, John Harrington

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    “A great snow storm occurred about forty five years ago on the eleventh of February.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly, Thomas O' Connor

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  7. (no title)

    “The longer you live the more you see.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly, Mrs Kennelly

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    “Michael Shine in Direen used make nails, he is dead about thirty years.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly, Timothy Kennelly

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    “Mr Hudson was the landlord over Upper Kilbaha and George Kitchenor was the landlord over lower Kilbaha.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly, John Harrington

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    “There was a house in Timmy Buckley's meadow and Mr Garvey was the name of the man that was living in it.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly, Timothy Kennelly

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    “People say that it is unlucky to pick flowers or throw out the ashes on May day.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly, Mrs Kennelly

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    “The following are the names of our cows.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly

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  13. (no title)

    “The following are names for money.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly

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    “The name of our home district is Kilbaha.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly, Timothy Kennelly

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    “When people take messages from a shopkeeper without paying for them when they are buying them, that is called ticking.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly

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    “Each year in the winter time some of the potato crop is selected and stored for the coming year to plant.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly, Timothy Kennelly

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    “The children in this district play different games.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly

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  18. (no title)

    “The following are the names of wild birds: The wren, the cuckoo...”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly

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  19. (no title)

    “The cuckoo comes to this country about the end of July.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly

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  20. Proverbs

    CBÉS 0405

    Bridget Kennelly

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