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  1. Finn MacCool

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    10 August 1939

    Domnall Ó Dinnín

  2. (no title)

    “Ceathair Béarna - the gappy or windy city - is situated at the foot of Bogeragh range on the Cork-Kerry Border.”

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    15 August 1939

    Dómhnall Ó Buachalla

  3. Local School - 1870

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    15 August 1939

    Dómhnall Ó Buachalla

  4. Eviction

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    15 August 1939

    Dómhnall Ó Buachalla

  5. (no title)

    “Near the place where this family built their small hut on the mountain side, there were other families living...”

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    15 August 1939

    Dómhnall Ó Buachalla

  6. (no title)

    “About the time of the famine, a travelling man came to this district...”

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    15 August 1939

    Dómhnall Ó Buachalla

  7. Carraig an Leinbh

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    22 August 1939

    Peg Donnelly

  8. (no title)

    “In this locality there lived a woman named Mrs Faide about eighty or ninety years ago.”

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    22 August 1939

    Peg Donnelly

  9. Forts - Ceathair Beárna

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    22 August 1939

    Peg Donnelly

  10. (no title)

    “The following story was told to me by Pádraig Ua Éaluighthe also, of which he was an eye-witness as he was one of the men on sentry duty.”

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    24 September 1939

    Pádraig Ó hÉaluighthe

  11. Riddle

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    24 September 1939

    Pádraig Ó hÉaluighthe

  12. (no title)

    “In the old days, about fifty years ago, many marriages were arranged by the parents...”

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    26 September 1939

    Dómhnall Ó Buachalla

  13. (no title)

    “At the time of this story, it was supposed that every man was allowed two wives.”

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    18 August 1939

    Dómhnall Ó Buachalla

  14. Eviction

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    20 August 1939

    Dómhnall Ó Buachalla

  15. Ghost Stories

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    22 August 1939

    Peg Donnelly

  16. Local Beliefs and Customs

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    27 September 1939

    Pádraig Ua Muimhneacháin

  17. Marriage Customs

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    27 September 1939

    Pádraig Ua Muimhneacháin

  18. (no title)

    “About sixty years ago, a man in this locality decided to dig up a fort that was in his land.”

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    27 September 1939

    Pádraig Ua Muimhneacháin

  19. (no title)

    “Another story is told of how in a local village there lived a priest who was unfrocked because he was a drunkard.”

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    22 August 1939

    Peg Donnelly

  20. Musheragh

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    21 September 1939

    Pádraig Ó Críodáin