The Schools’ Collection

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

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  1. Killimor

    CBÉS 0058

    E. O' Brien

    Killimor and Boleybeg, Co. Galway

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    About 40 years ago there were about 30 acres of marsh to the South of Lisheen strand as it is known at present.

    CBÉS 0313

    E. O' Brien

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    A travelling man used make panniers (poinnéar).

    CBÉS 0313

    E. O' Brien

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    My grandfather, Denis McCarthy of Meelan, Bandon told me when I was a child that he brought his wife home from the church on a "saddle horse" sitting behind him.

    CBÉS 0313

    Denis Mc Carthy, E. O' Brien

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    Sarah Halnan, Harbour View, Spinster, about 80, told me the Causeway at Harbour View was built as a relief work in 1847.

    CBÉS 0313

    E. O' Brien, Sarah Halnan

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    In April 1938 a flamingo came to the "slot" between Timoleague and Courtmacsherry.

    CBÉS 0313

    E. O' Brien

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  7. Clothes Made Locally

    CBÉS 0367

    E. O Brien

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  8. Locally Marriage Customs

    CBÉS 0367

    E. O Brien

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  9. Newtownshandrum Parish - Customs People 1938

    CBÉS 0367

    E. O Brien

    Newtownshandrum, Co. Cork

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