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  1. A Few Notes on Local History of Charleville

    CBÉ 0498

    Lore

    23 February 1929

  2. (no title)

    “I was in Thurles a few years ago.”

    CBÉ 0492

    Lore

    Pat Ryan

  3. (no title)

    “Over a few hundred years ago, a mass was being said in St. Mary's Church...”

    CBÉ 0492

    Lore

    Seán De Landair

  4. (no title)

    “A Chara Uasail, Enclosed you find a few scraps of Bealoideas...”

    CBÉ 0496

    Correspondence

    2 July 1937

    Tulaigh Mhic Aodháin, Co. Galway

  5. A Few Games for Girls from Ayle National School

    CBÉ 0517

    Lore

    1938

    Rína Nic Dhomhnaill

  6. (no title)

    “A few simple lines I mean to relate, Concerning a man who is not up to date...”

    CBÉ 0174

    Lore

    14 June 1934

    Séamus Ó Súilleabháin

  7. (no title)

    “Soon after the troubles in Wexford during "Nintety Eight" as the sheriff of the county and a few other...”

    CBÉ 0220

    Lore

    Transcript

  8. (no title)

    “In a few weeks more the English people will gather for to crown their King in Westminster Abbey.”

    CBÉ 0365

    Lore

    22 June 1937

    Séamus Ó Lamhna

  9. (no title)

    “O courche ye know where the ould school was where yer grandfather an' a few o' the ould lads used ta be goin ta.”

    CBÉ 0380

    Lore

    July 1937

    Seán Ó Chógáin

  10. (no title)

    “There was two ould women livin' down near Geevagh at war time, all they had ta depend on for a livin' was a few shillins' wages...”

    CBÉ 0463

    Lore

    5 December 1937

    John Bruen

    Transcript

  11. There are two enormous stones situated a few miles apart one at Barna and the other at Cloghanughane...

    “Banrigcleena" (situated near Mallow) gets its name from the legend that it is supposed to be the fairy palace of queen Cleena the queen of the Munster fairies.”

    CBÉ 0042

    Lore

    27 December 1928

    James O' Connell

  12. (no title)

    “About eight years ago there was a terrible storm and a few days after it was over a man named F- came to the deerpark...”

    CBÉ 0559

    Lore

    3 October 1938

    James Mulrain

  13. A Few Items from France Taken from TRISTAPATTE et Goret et Autres Contes (School Text from Mills and Boon, London)

    CBÉ 0560

    Lore

    31 July 1938

    Joan Ryan

  14. (no title)

    “There was a few girls wan time and they went off to England, and they were there for two or three years.”

    CBÉ 0543

    Lore

    July 1938

    Jim Bandville

  15. (no title)

    “There's a place up here in Rochestown 'tis only a few hundred yards from this place; where a whole lot of people were buried in the time of the famine.”

    CBÉ 0543

    Lore

    August 1938

    Máirtín Ó hAnnluain

  16. The History of a few of the Townlands Bordering where the Three Provinces Meet Leinster Ulster and Connacht.

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    January 1930

  17. (no title)

    “There was a certain woman who was travelling from Ladysbridge to Cnoc Glas a few miles distant...”

    CBÉ 0614

    Lore

    18 May 1939

    Seán Ó Drisceoil

  18. (no title)

    “There is a lake in a place called Newhall within a few miles of Ennis, Co Clare.”

    CBÉ 0635

    Lore

    6 May 1939

    Éamonn Mac Gearailt

  19. (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

  20. (no title)

    “Up to a few yhears ago, there was the remains o' an ould ruin to be seen at Greyforth, an' indeed it was a quare sthory that the ould people o' the village could tell ye about it.”

    CBÉ 0555

    Lore

    27 August 1938

    Jim Ganly