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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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    “Cnoc na Groighe - the hill of the Stud-Horse - is rich in béaloideas...”

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin

    Knocknagree, Co. Cork

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    “Cnoc na Groidhe - the hill of the stud-horse has a very interesting history.”

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin

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  3. Old Customs

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin

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  4. Christenings

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin

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  5. Death

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin

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  6. Account of the Evictions at Scrahan March 1880

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin, Michael Dennehy

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  7. Other Odds and Ends of Stories

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin, Michael Dennehy

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  8. Another Little Story From Michael Dennehy

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin, Michael Dennehy

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    “Michael informed me in our talk on Nora gCud (the spinning woman) that spinning women went from house to house and often spent months in the one house.”

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin

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    “On some other occasion let us hope we'll meet Michael...”

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin

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    “I had a talk with Miss Minnie Buckley (aged 68) of Park.”

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin, Miss Minnie Buckley

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  12. The Land League

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin, Mr J. O Kerlihy

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    “Mrs Kitty O'Connell (née Kelleher) of Farrankeal aged 80 gave me an account of their eviction and some interesting recollections of her youth.”

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Muimneacháin, Mrs Kitty O' Connell

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  14. The Teacher v the Farmer - For the Hand of a Maiden

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin

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  15. Ceann Eile a Thug Sean-Bhrighid Dom

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin

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  16. Agus Ceann Eile Fós ó Bhrighid

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin

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    “Considering that her late husband Patsy Sheehan was born in 1841 I tried to get some of his tales of the famine and after from Mrs Sheehan and both she and Jeremiah gave me the following.”

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin

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    “Another tale about Moll's destitution was given to me by Ned Buckley...”

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin, Ned Buckley

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    “A Dennehy man in Nohoval fed the people with turnips.”

    CBÉS 0358

    Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin, John O' Connell

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    “An unknown man was found dead in the famine times...”

    CBÉS 0358

    Denis Matthew Dennehy, Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin, Michael Dennehy

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