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)

    Naby an uncommon Christian name...

    CBÉS 0117

    Michael Mac Dermott

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  2. Personal Nicknames

    CBÉS 0117

    Miss W. Mac Donnell

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  3. Household Utensils No Longer Used

    CBÉS 0117

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  4. Settle Bed

    CBÉS 0117

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  5. (no title)

    Small mills for grinding corn...

    CBÉS 0117

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    About eighty years ago people had three meals...

    CBÉS 0117

    Mrs Maggie Mac Geever

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    We would have half a day's work...

    CBÉS 0117

    John Mac Dermott

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    Oatmeal bread without any flour...

    CBÉS 0117

    Eileen Keane, Ellen Keane

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  9. (no title)

    St Attracta

    CBÉS 0117

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  10. (no title)

    As I went up the Holy Land

    CBÉS 0117

    Annie J. Finn

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    There are three graveyards in Kilcoleman Parish...

    CBÉS 0117

    Miss Winnie Mac Donnell

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    There are three forts in the townland of Cloontia...

    CBÉS 0117

    Ellen Keane

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    Long ago the owners...

    CBÉS 0117

    James Duffy

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    I have hear of a man who tilled a fort...

    CBÉS 0117

    Peadar Carney

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    There was a grave made in Tavnghabeg...

    CBÉS 0117

    Annie J. Finn, Celia O' Hara

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  16. (no title)

    Caltaragh has a ring of bushes...

    CBÉS 0117

    Teresa Mac Geever

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  17. (no title)

    My grandmother says that there is hidden treasure...

    CBÉS 0117

    Peter Carney

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    My grandmother says that she often heard her father and mother say that there was a treasure under a bush...

    CBÉS 0117

    Annie J. Finn

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  19. (no title)

    My uncle told me that there was a pot of gold...

    CBÉS 0117

    Teresa Mac Geever

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  20. (no title)

    About eighty or 100 years ago...

    CBÉS 0117

    Annie Finn

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