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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. Landlord Days

    CBÉS 1111

    Elizabeth Doherty, Margaret Roe, Mrs Margaret Doherty

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  2. Buncrana and the District

    CBÉS 1111

    Elizabeth Doherty, Miss Sarah O' Donnell

    Buncrana, Co. Donegal

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  3. Story

    CBÉS 1111

    Elizabeth Doherty, Mrs Mc Laughlin

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    “The church at Cockhill is not built on the site where the foundation stone was first laid.”

    CBÉS 1111

    Elizabeth Doherty, Miss Jane Loughrey

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    “It was believed in my young days that certain people could take the butter from the neighbours' milk, and put it in their own.”

    CBÉS 1111

    Roe, Elizabeth Doherty, Mrs Margaret Doherty

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    “Somewhere in Donegal there is a hill where Fionn Mac Cumail and his best warriors are supposed to be sleeping.”

    CBÉS 1111

    Roe, Elizabeth Doherty, Mr Owen Dohery

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    “Some of the names of the places around here are Irish and have some meaning.”

    CBÉS 1111

    Elizabeth Doherty, Mrs Margaret Doherty

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    “My father Neal Doherty (Lynch) says he heard his granny Cassie Doherty saying "About a hundred years ago she remembers when the people in Cregnahorna were grinding their own meal and were spinning their own yarn for sheets".”

    CBÉS 1116

    Elizabeth Doherty, Mary Josephine Doherty, Neal Doherty

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  9. Local Happenings

    CBÉS 1116

    Elizabeth Doherty, Mary Josephine Doherty

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