The Schools’ Collection

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

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  1. Ball's Grove

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    Brendan Mc Quillan, Mary Meehan

    The Grove, Co. Louth

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  2. Cromwell in Drogheda

    These are true stories I am going to tell you about. It happened in the time of Oliver Cromwell,...

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  3. Cromwell in Drogheda

    One of Cromwell's Officers were found about thirty years ago in Father Nulty's fields on Cromwell's Mount.

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  4. Cromwell in Drogheda

    The night of the Big Wind about fifty years ago people were going round the Barracks.

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  5. Cromwell in Drogheda

    An Officer of Cromwell's army was killed in Mary's St.

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  6. Cromwell in Drogheda

    When Cromwell was getting the horses from Pepper of Ballygart, one of Cromwell's Officers was killed there.

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  7. Cromwell in Drogheda

    When Cromwell was coming the Colpe road he went into a house called Weathertides.

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  8. Cromwell in Drogheda

    About fifty years ago three men put a (belt) bet of ten Shillings to a man that he would not cross Mary's Church Wall....

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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    My mother and Cacaí Walsh and the old people about used to tell me this story.

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  10. Two Greyhounds

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    Brendan Mc Quillan, Mary Meehan

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  11. Flay (Flail) Lane

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    Brendan Mc Quillan, Mary Meehan

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  12. Charity Rewarded

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    Brendan Mc Quillan, Mary Meehan

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    This story is true. This man was name Tom Smyth. His people were evicted...

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    Brendan Mc Quillan, Mary Meehan

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    This is a true story, this Fairy tale happened at Beamore Co. Meath, in the Parish of St. Marys Drogheda, I have seen the woman.

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  15. Hidden Treasure

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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    This is a true story which occurred in the Penal Days.

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

    Beamore Road, Co. Louth

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    I heard my Mother, The Lord of mercy on her, She told me when I was about ten year old.

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  18. Slane Castle

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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    This story is really true.

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    Brendan Mc Quillan, Mary Meehan

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  20. (no title)

    This is a true story.

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    Brendan Mc Quillan, Mary Meehan

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