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

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  1. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 1026

    Bundoran, Co. Donegal

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  2. A Strange Find

    CBÉS 1026

    Bundoran, Co. Donegal

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  3. Mummers

    CBÉS 1026

    Bundoran, Co. Donegal

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  4. (no title)

    “A keg of butter was found in the Ross, outside Bundoran.”

    CBÉS 1026

    Bundoran, Co. Donegal

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  5. Local Happenings

    CBÉS 1026

    Bundoran, Co. Donegal

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    “About two miles from Bundoran there is a big field about two hundred yards long and one hundred yards wide. In this field there is a big stone sunk six feet in the earth.”

    CBÉS 1027

    Dan Burke, Mr Gordon Burke

    Bundoran, Co. Donegal

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    “The old people around Bundoran have many old cures. This is one of them. If two people of the same name marry their children have a cure for the mumps...”

    CBÉS 1027

    Mr Peter Daly, Patrick Mc Aleer

    Bundoran, Co. Donegal

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    “In the Rock of Bundoran in a field (William Travers's) there is a large Mass stone with a holy-water font carved in it...”

    CBÉS 1027

    Patrick Mc Aleer, Peter Daly

    Bundoran, Co. Donegal

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    “In the town of Bundoran there is a little stream called "Sruth na Folla" (The stream of Blood"). It is supposed to have got its name from a battle that was fought beside it...”

    CBÉS 1027

    James Daly, Patrick Mc Aleer

    Bundoran, Co. Donegal

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    “About two miles from Bundoran there is a well in a place called Ashbrook. Long ago there was a monastery beside it...”

    CBÉS 1027

    Jimmy Daly, Patrick Mc Aleer

    Bundoran, Co. Donegal

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    “There are many fields around Bundoran with stray sods in them. (A stray sod is supposed to be a patch of ground on which a coffin containing a dead body was placed, while those who were carrying it rested.)...”

    CBÉS 1027

    Dan Gilbride, Tom Leonard

    Bundoran, Co. Donegal

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    “There is a field in the Ross near Bundoran names Pairc Liam (William's field) which is supposed to contain a crock of gold...”

    CBÉS 1027

    Peter Daly, Tom Leonard

    Bundoran, Co. Donegal

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    “There is a strand in Bundoran known as Single Street strand or Trá na dTréanfhear (The strand of the strong men) Fionn Mc Cumhall is said to have killed his own son on this strand...”

    CBÉS 1027

    Peter Daly, Tom Leonard

    Bundoran, Co. Donegal

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