The Schools’ Collection

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

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  1. Piseoga

    CBÉS 0494

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    There was a dairy-man and his wife living together in a house, and when they used to get up in the morning to milk the cows, they used to have no milk.

    CBÉS 0494

    Dan O Donnell

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    A couple of years ago there was a man in the parish of Duagh, and every time one of his cows calved, she died.

    CBÉS 0494

    Mrs Bridget Walshe, Patrick Colbert

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    A certain man went out to gather in the cows on May morning.

    CBÉS 0494

    Pádraig Óg Mc Carthy

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    A certain priest spoke off the Altar about a woman named Joan Grogan, and that she was n league with the Devil.

    CBÉS 0494

    Mrs Ryan

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    Mrs McCarthy of Knocknasna, was making butter one day in a churn.

    CBÉS 0494

    Desmond Barrett, John Barrett

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    About six years ago in the parish of Monegay, a man went to a farmer's house on May Eve for a rope to tie straw.

    CBÉS 0494

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    On May Eve a certain woman went to her neighbour's field, where her neighbour's cows were grazing.

    CBÉS 0494

    Michael Harnett

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    Up to forty years ago it was a custom of tailors to go from house to house making clothes for people.

    CBÉS 0494

    Mrs Mc Carthy

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    Long ago it was an old custom for tailors to go around to the houses of those who wanted to make suits.

    CBÉS 0494

    James Hickey, Jeremiah Hickey

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    About five years ago in Kerry there was a woman milking a cow, and a man came into the cabin, and he touched the milk with his hand.

    CBÉS 0494

    Mrs P. Walshe

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    The following is supposed to have happened at the Mill-Stream house not far from Abbeyfeale.

    CBÉS 0494

    John Harnett, Mrs P. Collins

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    Once upon a time a little boy was herding cows for his master, and every day he had to take the cows to a mountain farm.

    CBÉS 0494

    Mrs Roche

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    About sixty years ago in the parish of Tournafulla there were two neighbours joined in butter.

    CBÉS 0494

    Mrs Bridget Dalton

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    This story which I am going to write has passed down from certain old people who lived in Co. Limerick.

    CBÉS 0494

    Mrs Catherine Fitzgerald

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    There was a woman in Co. Kerry who could not make the butter whatever way she went to work.

    CBÉS 0494

    Mrs D. Collins

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  17. Superstitious Beliefs

    CBÉS 0494

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  18. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0494

    Willie Harnett

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  19. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0494

    Denis O Connell

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  20. Local Cures

    CBÉS 0494

    Mrs P. Hartnett, William T. Hartnett, Willie Hartnett

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