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  1. (no title)

    About twenty years ago it was a custom that when any farmer was making a rick or digging the potatoes...

    CBÉ 0487

    Lore

    15 November 1937–16 November 1937

    Dan Gallahue

  2. Weather Lore

    CBÉ 0487

    Lore

    16 November 1937–17 November 1937

    Patrick Gallahue

  3. Riddles

    CBÉ 0487

    Lore

    18 November 1937

    Willie Howard

  4. (no title)

    About thirty years ago Bill Archer, a noted wit, lived in Kilteely, Co. Limerick.

    CBÉ 0487

    Lore

    19 November 1937–23 November 1937

    Pat Howard

  5. (no title)

    Some years ago there lived a man by the name of John Walsh near the village of Galbally, Co. Limerick.

    CBÉ 0487

    Lore

    24 November 1937

    Roger Kiely

  6. (no title)

    About eight years ago there lived a man about one mile out-side Mitchelstown who was known as a terrible miser.

    CBÉ 0487

    Lore

    3 December 1937

    Willie Howard

  7. Seanfhocail

    CBÉ 0487

    Lore

    13 December 1937–12 January 1938

    Dan Gallahue

  8. Turf

    CBÉ 0487

    Lore

    12 January 1938

  9. (no title)

    There was a fair in Mitchelstown not very long ago...

    CBÉ 0487

    Lore

    1938

    Gerald Lane

  10. (no title)

    There was a man by the name of Tom Hoare who lived in Garnalina, Ballylanders, Co. Limerick.

    CBÉ 0487

    Lore

    28 January 1938–31 January 1938

    Willie Howard

  11. (no title)

    There was a man by the name of Ned Rue (Ruadh) Kiely...

    CBÉ 0487

    Lore

    1 February 1938

    Bill Hedderman

  12. (no title)

    There was a very cruel man by the name of Kingston who lived in Mitchelstown, Co. Cork.

    CBÉ 0487

    Lore

    8 February 1938

    Jerry O'Donnell

  13. (no title)

    There was three men in a boarding-house getting their dinner and one of them had a very big nose...

    CBÉ 0487

    Lore

    1 February 1938

    Dan Gallahue