The Schools’ Collection

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

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    It was customary with the old people to get up very early on the first morning of May in order to see the first morning smoke in the chimneys about fifty years ago there lived an old woman in Strass, two miles outside Carndonagh, Co Donegal.

    CBÉS 1115

    Eddie Doherty, Mary Josephine Doherty

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    About fifty years ago there was a house in the parish of Carndonagh and it was supposed to be haunted.

    CBÉS 1115

    Eddie Doherty, Mary Josephine Doherty

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    About fifty years ago there was a man who lived in a townland in Inishowen.

    CBÉS 1115

    Eddie Doherty, Mary Josephine 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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  5. Gortnamara

    CBÉS 1116

    Mary Josephine Doherty

    Churchland Quarters (Carrowtemple, Moneyshandoney and Carrick), Co. Donegal

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  6. Local Superstitions

    CBÉS 1116

    Bridget Doherty, Mary Josephine Doherty

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  7. Old Crafts

    CBÉS 1116

    Mary Doherty, Mary Josephine Doherty

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  8. Local Happenings

    CBÉS 1116

    Elizabeth Doherty, Mary Josephine Doherty

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  9. Clothes Made Locally

    CBÉS 1116

    Bridgid Doherty, Mary Josephine Doherty

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  10. The Potato Crop

    CBÉS 1116

    Mary Josephine Doherty, Neal Doherty

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  11. Local Forge

    CBÉS 1116

    Mary Josephine Doherty, Neal Doherty

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  12. An Old Story - The Ród-Shee and Oighan O'Dochartaigh

    CBÉS 1116

    Edward Toland, Mary Josephine Doherty

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