The Schools’ Collection

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

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  1. An Áit Seo

    CBÉS 0557

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  2. Michael Cusack

    CBÉS 0557

    Pat Horan

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  3. Bishop Butler

    CBÉS 0557

    John Gleeson

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  4. Cahill's Bridge

    CBÉS 0557

    Eamonn O Halloran

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  5. Tadhg Ó Meachair

    CBÉS 0557

    Michael Mc Garry

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  6. Ruins of Churches Around Drangan

    CBÉS 0557

    Michael Hall

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  7. Place Names in the Locality

    CBÉS 0557

    Drangan, Co. Tipperary

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  8. Riddles

    CBÉS 0557

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  9. Old Cures

    CBÉS 0557

    Edward Anglin

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  10. The Burning of the Woman

    CBÉS 0557

    Miss H. Noonan

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  11. A Story Told Locally

    CBÉS 0557

    D. Mac Garry

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    Maggie Drew told me that one night a man was playing cards in a house in Lismoyna with a lot of other men.

    CBÉS 0557

    Michael Hall

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    There is a hollow in Michael Hall's field Magowry about twenty yards from the church

    CBÉS 0557

    Tom Duggan

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  14. An Old Castle

    CBÉS 0557

    D. Mac Garry

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  15. (no title)

    There did a man by the name of Reid live in a castle in Modeshil.

    CBÉS 0557

    Mrs R. Maher

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  16. (no title)

    In former times Magoury was a parish an Monks lived there.

    CBÉS 0557

    Mrs R. Maher

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  17. (no title)

    A long time ago when the Monks were in Magoury one Monk named Declan had a habit of reading his Office under a certain tree.

    CBÉS 0557

    Mrs R. Maher

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  18. (no title)

    St Columba prophesied that there is going to be a war between the north and south of Ireland

    CBÉS 0557

    Mrs O Meara

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    There is an old story about Gleann na Muice Duibe bridge.

    CBÉS 0557

    Mrs O Meara

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  20. (no title)

    Tom Phelan was a great weight-thrower.

    CBÉS 0557

    Mrs O Meara

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