The Schools’ Collection

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

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  1. The Old Man's Saying

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    Ellen Culligan, Mr Thomas Downer

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  2. Na Focail atá in Úsáid Fós ag na Daoine

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    If a cow is due to calf when the moon is full she will calf at the full tide.

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  4. Marriage Customs

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    All the old things I have in my house are, a hook, which is never used,

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    The Irish people hate magpies for they say they were never seen in Ireland until Cromwell came over from England.

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  7. Holy Wells

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    Peggy O' Dea

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    There is a well in James Driscoll's land of Burrane called after St. Imy.

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    Bridget Browne, David Browne

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    There was a girl in Quilty and she was going on crutches.

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    Mary Lillis, Mrs Tubridy

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    There lived a man named Cairthinín na Caoirn and he had half of West Clare to himself and there lived an other man named Fuaim na hAirce that had the other half.

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    Bridget Browne, David Browne

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  11. Seán de hÓr's Work

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    Ellen Culligan

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    The cairthinín lived behind in Quirn.

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  13. A Ghost Story

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    Batt Crowley

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  14. An Uncanny Experience

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    Batt Crowley

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  15. Knockerra Flag Quarries

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  16. Historic

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  17. Topographic

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    Maureen Grogan

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    There was a small house in Collminga near the main road to Ennis.

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    Ellen Culligan, Mrs Mary Crowley

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    There were evictions in the townland of Shessive near Cranny.

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    Katty Browne, Mrs Browne

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    Long ago their lived in the parish of Killimer a man named Driscoll.

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    Mrs Culligan

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