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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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  1. Story

    CBÉS 1111

    Annie Friel, Bridget Donaghey, Mrs Annie Donaghey

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  2. Story

    CBÉS 1111

    Elizabeth Doherty, Mrs Mc Laughlin

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  3. Story

    CBÉS 1111

    Bridget Donaghey, Mr Jeorge Mc Gee

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    “The church at Cockhill is not built on the site where the foundation stone was first laid.”

    CBÉS 1111

    Elizabeth Doherty, Miss Jane Loughrey

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    “The above mentioned lady says she always believed that a source of bogbean in Spring kept sickness and the doctor away for the rest of the year.”

    CBÉS 1111

    Charles Armour, Miss Bridget Loughrey

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    “It was believed in my young days that certain people could take the butter from the neighbours' milk, and put it in their own.”

    CBÉS 1111

    Roe, Elizabeth Doherty, Mrs Margaret Doherty

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    “She often heard strangers coming to this place talk about the bushes that are growing here and there through the fields.”

    CBÉS 1111

    Margaret Mary Doherty, Mrs Doherty

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    “A few evenings ago I paid a visit to the house of the above named lady. She showed me a stone and asked me to observe it carefully.”

    CBÉS 1111

    Charlie Armour, Miss Jane Loughrey

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  9. Olden Times

    CBÉS 1111

    John Deehan, Mrs Rose Mc Carron

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  10. Story

    CBÉS 1111

    Mr Ned Holmes, Pat Armour

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    “When my Mother was a young girl she began, she and three neighbour girls were out walking on a Sunday evening.”

    CBÉS 1111

    Miss Jane Loughrey, Pat Armour

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  12. The Castle - Buncrana

    CBÉS 1111

    Bridget Donaghey, Mr Philip Donaghey

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  13. A Few Hours with the Old People

    CBÉS 1111

    Mrs Bridget Gill, Philomena Grant

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  14. Old Sayings

    CBÉS 1111

    Lily O' Donnell, Mr Patrick Josepth Finnegan

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    “When my Grandmother got married sixty-five years ago she went to live in a little house about a couple of miles from town.”

    CBÉS 1111

    James O' Hagan, Mrs O' Hagan

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  16. Story

    CBÉS 1111

    Mr. Eddy Gallagher, Pat Mc Guinness

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    “The old people took great care of their feet and seldom or never had corns.”

    CBÉS 1111

    Charles Armour, Mrs Doherty

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  18. A Story

    CBÉS 1111

    John Deehan, Mr Charles Harkin

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    “About seventy years ago two families lived in Slavery.”

    CBÉS 1111

    Mary Doherty, Mr Dan Magee

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  20. The Rambler from Clare

    CBÉS 1111

    Mary Doherty

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