1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection

The Schools’ Collection

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

Filter results

Clear
View results on map

Results

146 results

  1. Seán Burns

    CBÉS 0407

    Máire Ní Cuill, Seán Ó Cíarba

    Transcript

  2. Seán Burns

    CBÉS 0407

    Eibhlín Ní Liatháin

    Transcript

  3. Sean Burns

    “I remember Seán Burns very well.”

    CBÉS 0407

    Seán O Cíarba

    Transcript

  4. (no title)

    “The people decided to make a graveyard at Mountmahon outside Abbeyfeale.”

    CBÉS 0407

    Transcript

  5. (no title)

    “There was a dispute about graves in a graveyard back near CastleIsland.”

    CBÉS 0407

    Mícheál O Catháin

    Transcript

  6. (no title)

    “Long ago in the farm where the Keanes now live there lived a man by the name of Seanlann from Rath Keale.”

    CBÉS 0407

    Transcript

  7. (no title)

    “There was an old man long ago.”

    CBÉS 0407

    Transcript

  8. (no title)

    “One day there were two men cutting hay with a scythe in the Derc meadows.”

    CBÉS 0407

    Liam O Coileáin

    Transcript

  9. (no title)

    “There was once a widow who had three sons and one daughter.”

    CBÉS 0407

    Liatháin

    Transcript

  10. (no title)

    “Long ago there lived a man who had a great many children.”

    CBÉS 0407

    Áine Ní Caómh, Liam Ó Coileáin

    Transcript

  11. (no title)

    “About 60 years ago Fr Harnett was Parish Priest in Duagh.”

    CBÉS 0407

    Micheál Ó Catháin

    Transcript

  12. (no title)

    “There was an old man there long ago.”

    CBÉS 0407

    Pádraig Ó Catháin

    Transcript

  13. (no title)

    “Gerald Mc Elligott's father from Listowel was in days gone by gathering what they called then "Shafe and Tithe"- a land tax.”

    CBÉS 0407

    Siobhán Ní Cíarba

    Transcript

  14. (no title)

    “A man named Con Donoghue lived at a place named Drom Ruadh near Newcastlewest.”

    CBÉS 0407

    Eadhmonn De h Airnéid

    Transcript

  15. (no title)

    “In the Dingle district when a corpse is taken out- it is laid on chairs (the coffin) outside the door.”

    CBÉS 0407

    Transcript

  16. (no title)

    “On Christmas night at six o clock...”

    CBÉS 0407

    Mícheál O Dúbhda

    Transcript

  17. (no title)

    “There was a man there long ago and his wife died.”

    CBÉS 0407

    Treasa Ní Cárthaigh

    Transcript

  18. Leigheasanna

    CBÉS 0407

    Transcript

  19. (no title)

    “One time there lived a farmer who had one only daughter, she got sick and had a doctor.”

    CBÉS 0407

    Dómhnall Ó Dubhda

    Transcript

  20. (no title)

    “In olden times when the birds of the air build their nests in old men's whiskers there was a poor man who was persecuted by tyranny.”

    CBÉS 0407

    Áine Ní Caoimh, Líam O Coileáin

    Transcript