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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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  1. Piseoga

    CBÉS 0575

    Alice Maxey, Mr Matt Murnae

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    “I got these cures from various people.”

    CBÉS 0575

    Alice Maxey

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  3. Cures - Sníomh na Péiste

    CBÉS 0575

    Alice Maxey, Mr Jeremiah Brett

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  4. Marriage Feasts

    CBÉS 0575

    Alice Maxey, Mr John Maxey

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    “Long ago there was a thick population here in Cappagh, work was very laborious tilling the land with wooden implements, the ford was very poor also.”

    CBÉS 0575

    Alice Maxey, Mrs Kate Murnane

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    “Long ago it was the custom when people died to wake them for two days and have a funeral the third day.”

    CBÉS 0575

    Alice Maxey, Mr Matt Murnane

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    “Over forty years ago, a great epidemic of typhoid fever broke out around here.”

    CBÉS 0575

    Alice Maxey, Mr Matt Murnane

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    “In the old days when the corn was ready to be threshed the farmer hired a horse power machine and all the neighbours came in and helped; at least twelve men were wanted to do this work.”

    CBÉS 0575

    Alice Maxey, Mrs Brett

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  9. Whorts (Fraocháin)

    CBÉS 0575

    Alice Maxey

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    “Two boys went out darkfowling one dark night; in the course of their travels they went into a fort which was thickly covered with bushies.”

    CBÉS 0575

    Alice Maxey, Mr Ned Murnane

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