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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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    “About 70 years ago, and not very far from Lahinch there was a man working in a field with a plough and a pair of horses.”

    CBÉS 0621

    James Queally

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    “Before O' Briens Bridge was built that is the bridge crossing the Inagh River near its mouth there a ford which the people used to cross when going to Liscannor from Lahinch.”

    CBÉS 0621

    James Queally

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    “When Diarmuid and Grainne were 'on the run' they stayed for time in a farm which is now owned by a farmer named Mr Mac Mahon.”

    CBÉS 0621

    James Queally

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    “About a mile and a half from Lahinch there is a graveyard called Cillmanaheen.”

    CBÉS 0621

    James Queally

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    “Up to the year 1831 it was all hedge-schools that were in this country as there was a price laid on teacher's heads, and they were forced to teach by a hedge.”

    CBÉS 0621

    James Queally

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    “There was a man living in Tullygarvan one time whose name was Tommy Nagle R.I.P. One day he was in the bog catting turf, and he saw a lizard.”

    CBÉS 0621

    James Queally

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    “In the long winter's night when children and sometimes elderly people are sitting around the fire, perhaps one of them suggests to play 'sharing the ring'.”

    CBÉS 0621

    James Queally

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    “About half a mile from Lahinch there is an old ruin.”

    CBÉS 0621

    James Queally

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  9. How Súgáns Are Made

    CBÉS 0621

    James Queally

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