The Schools’ Collection

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

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  1. (no title)

    There is supposed to be a giant's grave on top of Knockerra Hill, in the farm now occupied by Mr Pat O'Shea.

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  2. Stories about Forts

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    Eileen Grogan

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    My old nurse Mrs Mary Culligan told me that she lived in a house in Granatooha now occupied by Michael Walshe.

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    Martie Nolan's sister and another girl in Killimer were in the bog one day.

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    Bridget Nolan, Mai Power

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  5. Hidden Treasure

    Not many years ago, there were three men living in Cranny who dreamed three times that they found a pot of gold in a certain fort in the parish.

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    Mary O' Brien

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  6. Biddy Early - Hidden Treasure

    It was said that money was hid in a certain fort.

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    Peggy O' Dea

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    There lived a man whose name was James Mac Mahon.

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    Bridget Browne, David Browne

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    Good christians young and old give ear into my scroll...

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  9. A Grabber in Granatooha

    CBÉS 0629

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  10. Story About a Fort

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    Michael Flanagan

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  11. A Strong Man

    CBÉS 0629

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  12. A Good Walker

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    E. Culligan

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  13. Stories of the Famine Days

    CBÉS 0629

    Bridget Browne, David Browne

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  14. Stories of the Famine Days

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    Martin Cooney, Mary Bridget Crotty

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    On the 15th day of August in the year of '93 ¶ Heart-rending was the news that spread through this locality

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    In the summer of the year of 1893 a crowd of people left Kerry for a day to Kilkee.

    CBÉS 0629

    John Mc Inerney, Mary Clancy

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  17. The Beautiful Town of Kilrush

    CBÉS 0629

    Kitty Cunningham

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  18. A County Council Election in Clare in June 1911 as Mentioned in the L.G.B. Blue Book

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    Mr B. Crowley

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  19. Pishogues

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    Mary O' Brien

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  20. Riddles

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    Nan Looney

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