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The Main Manuscript Collection

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  1. (no title)

    “It is said that a person should make a wish at every crossroads...”

    CBÉ 0512

    Lore

    23 May 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  2. (no title)

    “Rivers rising on new years night is a sign...”

    CBÉ 0512

    Lore

    23 May 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  3. (no title)

    “If a lone crow calls on a house top, or on a chimney...”

    CBÉ 0512

    Lore

    23 May 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  4. (no title)

    “If a person dreams of seeing a grave opened and empty...”

    CBÉ 0512

    Lore

    23 May 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  5. (no title)

    “A Corpse that dosen't get stiff is a sign that some other person in the family is going to die soon after...”

    CBÉ 0512

    Lore

    23 May 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  6. (no title)

    “White patches on the fingernails:...”

    CBÉ 0512

    Lore

    23 May 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  7. (no title)

    “If a person looses a sixpence, or any coin...”

    CBÉ 0512

    Lore

    23 May 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  8. (no title)

    “A woman should never cut a man's hair...”

    CBÉ 0512

    Lore

    23 May 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  9. (no title)

    “If seven boys are born after other...”

    CBÉ 0512

    Lore

    23 May 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  10. (no title)

    “Children who are born, with a covering on their heads, which is usually called the "sailors cap"...”

    CBÉ 0512

    Lore

    23 May 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  11. (no title)

    “In the times o' the Ribbon-men I herd me grandfather sayin'...”

    CBÉ 0512

    Lore

    23 May 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  12. (no title)

    “Peter Dwyer of Cloghogue was considered the best bone setter in this district in his time.”

    CBÉ 0512

    Lore

    23 May 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  13. (no title)

    “There was a poor old wida woman livin on the Kingsborough estate, close on a hundred years ago now, she was a Catholic.”

    CBÉ 0512

    Lore

    23 May 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  14. (no title)

    “Two fairly hard cases o men war comin' down the coach road at Ballinfaad wan night...”

    CBÉ 0512

    Lore

    23 May 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  15. (no title)

    “A Bishop who came to Geevagh to administer the sacrament of Confirmation to the children of the parish was staying in a house...”

    CBÉ 0512

    Lore

    23 May 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  16. (no title)

    “This is a fact that ushed to happen to a poor woman a neighbour o' our own who lived up on the Clochogue mountain.”

    CBÉ 0555

    Lore

    20 July 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  17. How the Walshes Came to Ireland

    CBÉ 0555

    Lore

    1 July 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  18. (no title)

    “The point o' Shrelahan is wan place in the Co Sligo that in ould times very few people liked to pass be for it was said, that it wan of the worsht an' mosht dangerous places, that ye could thravel be.”

    CBÉ 0555

    Lore

    1 July 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  19. (no title)

    “Well theres many curious kinds o' people in this world an its in ould belief that the more curious they are the worshe people thry to make them, when they are talkin about them...”

    CBÉ 0555

    Lore

    14 August 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach

  20. (no title)

    “Smiths in ould times ushed to always be considhered the cleveresht men in Ireland. And it washtn't alone at their thrade that they excelled...”

    CBÉ 0555

    Lore

    14 August 1938

    Seán P. Breathnach