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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. My Home District

    CBÉS 0774

    Kathleen Crosse

    Allenwood South, Co. Kildare

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  2. Clothes

    CBÉS 0774

    Elizabeth Dunne, Mrs L. Dunne

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  3. A Funny Story

    CBÉS 0774

    Elizabeth Dunne, Mr M. Moore

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  4. Fairy Forts

    CBÉS 0774

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    “The eggs that the hens lay on Good Friday and Holy Saturday, the people put crosses on them with soot.”

    CBÉS 0774

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  6. (no title)

    “When the person that is milking has finished she puts a cross with milk on the cow.”

    CBÉS 0774

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  7. (no title)

    “The people knit pooties for the babies.”

    CBÉS 0774

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    “My home district is Allenwood North, it is in the parish of Allen, and in the barony of Connell.”

    CBÉS 0774

    Elizabeth Dunne

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  9. Great Men

    CBÉS 0774

    Thomas Regan

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  10. Herbs

    CBÉS 0774

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  11. Place Names

    CBÉS 0774

    Allenwood, Co. Kildare

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  12. (no title)

    “The potatoes that grow best in our garden is Spys-Abundance.”

    CBÉS 0774

    Agnes Wright

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  13. My Home District

    CBÉS 0774

    Mary Flynn

    Derrymullen, Co. Kildare

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  14. Roads

    CBÉS 0774

    Mary Flynn

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    “There are a lot of ruined castles around here, Ballyteague, Kilmeague, Blackwood, and Carbury.”

    CBÉS 0774

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    “There was a hedge school near Jone's and a man named Mr O Keefe, used to teach the children.”

    CBÉS 0774

    Mary Flynn

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  17. Travelling People

    CBÉS 0774

    Patrick Dunne

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  18. Toys

    CBÉS 0774

    Patrick Dunne

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    “If anybody has a crowing hen old people say they should let her off where three roads meet.”

    CBÉS 0774

    Patrick Dunne

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  20. Riddles

    CBÉS 0774

    Patrick Dunne

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