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The Schools’ Collection

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

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    “There was a rich man called Studdert living in Clonderalaw one time.”

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    John Mac Inerney, Mary Clancy

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    “In olden times St Martin day 11th November nobody used to work but a family of the Brew's who were Protestant's”

    CBÉS 0629

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    “We have a field in our farm at Granatooha and for years past in the memory of the eldest inhabitants it used to be ploughed for tillage.”

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    John Driscoll

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    “I know where there is a haunted bush and a most remarkable one.”

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    John Driscoll

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  5. A Regular Daghdha Mór

    CBÉS 0629

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  6. A Cure for Telling Lies

    CBÉS 0629

    Tom Mulqueen

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    “In the famine days there lived a poor man.”

    CBÉS 0629

    Teresa Behan

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    “There was a man one time who lived in the parish of Killimer in the townland of Ballymcrinan.”

    CBÉS 0629

    Mary Lillis, Patrick Lillis

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    “Mrs Martin Walshe lived in Moyadda, near Kilrush.”

    CBÉS 0629

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  10. Iarthar Chontae an Chláir

    CBÉS 0629

    Seamus Ó Mangain

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  11. The Mantle So Green

    CBÉS 0629

    Mrs O' Brien

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  12. Young Bessie's Fate

    CBÉS 0629

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    “Tom Trawly walked 27 miles to Spancil Hill with filly.”

    CBÉS 0629

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    “Campaigning from Mutton Island for Scully (tenant) Landlord Stacpoole.”

    CBÉS 0629

    B. Crowley

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