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

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    “There lived in Limnagh a man named John Mulligan.”

    CBÉS 0182

    Rita Mc Cormack

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    “When my grandfather was a young man his parents being at Strandhill a distance of twenty miles at least, he resolved to go and see them.”

    CBÉS 0182

    Rita Mc Cormack

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    “There lived in Corradoo a family named Sheridan.”

    CBÉS 0182

    Rita Mc Cormack

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    “Many years ago there was a man in Breslau called Tomas Tivan.”

    CBÉS 0182

    Ivy Lillie

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    “Many years ago there lived in the townland of Corradoo, a man whose name was James Walsh.”

    CBÉS 0182

    Mona Lillie

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    “There lived in Derrygola a man called John Casey.”

    CBÉS 0182

    Ivy Lillie

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    “There was a woman in Ballinafad named Mrs O' Gara.”

    CBÉS 0182

    Rita Mc Loughlin

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    “There was once a woman who lived in Derrygola.”

    CBÉS 0182

    Mona Lillie

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    “Mrs Meckenzie lived in Corrick.”

    CBÉS 0182

    Mona Lillie

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    “Many years ago Michael Farrell was coming from Sligo at a late hour in the night.”

    CBÉS 0182

    Timothy Mc Donagh

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    “A long time ago there lived a man in Ballghboy called John Neiphen.”

    CBÉS 0182

    Timothy Mc Donagh

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    “Mrs Pye (Mary McGee) walked to Sligo, a distance of nineteen miles and was in Pound Street at eight o' clock in the morning.”

    CBÉS 0182

    Cecily Fairbanks

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    “Another woman called Mary Lyttle, walked to Dublin one day and came back the next day and danced a few reels on Ballinafad Bridge, on her way home.”

    CBÉS 0182

    Cecily Fairbanks

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  14. Local Happenings

    CBÉS 0182

    Nancy J. Candon

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  15. Local Happenings

    CBÉS 0182

    Rita Mc Loughlin

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  16. Local Happenings

    CBÉS 0182

    Rita Mc Loughlin

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  17. Local Happenings

    CBÉS 0182

    Ivy Lillie

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  18. Local Happenings

    CBÉS 0182

    Margaret Mc Glynn

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  19. Local Happenings

    CBÉS 0182

    Kathleen Corcoran

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  20. Local Happenings

    CBÉS 0182

    Mona Lillie

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