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

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  1. Signs of the Weather in This District Shown by the Birds

    CBÉS 0144

    John O' Reilly, Peggy O' Reilly

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  2. Churning

    CBÉS 0676

    Peggy O' Reilly

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  3. Homemade Toys

    CBÉS 0676

    Peggy O' Reilly

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  4. Games Played

    CBÉS 0676

    Peggy O' Reilly

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    “Crocinalish on the river Mattock is a raised mound where music was heard and on the first of May at nine o' clock in the evening is supposed a small girl dressed in black and a white bandage round her neck and her mouth open from ear to ear is seen.”

    CBÉS 0676

    Peggy O' Reilly

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    “It was a custom when the bride and bridegroom came to the gate of their home to hand him a five naggin bottle of whiskey from which he drank a drop, then handing it to the bride, after that the bridegroom, taking the bottle threw it against the peer of th”

    CBÉS 0676

    Peggy O' Reilly

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    “A hedge schoolmaster taught at Mosycon at Strinagh.”

    CBÉS 0676

    Peggy O' Reilly

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    “For a cold they boiled garlic or flaxeed and it was taken hot.”

    CBÉS 0676

    Peggy O' Reilly

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    “The blackbird is black with a yellow beak, lays eggs of a skyblue colour, about four or five, and these eggs are sprinkled with little brown dots and, it builds its nest in a hawthorn bush.”

    CBÉS 0676

    Peggy O' Reilly

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    “When a person hears the bells and trains in the South its a sign of bad weather.”

    CBÉS 0676

    Peggy O' Reilly

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    “Doctor Patrick Lyons Bishop of Kilmore first saw the light of day in Belpatrick two miles from Collon, but in Collon parish.”

    CBÉS 0676

    Peggy O' Reilly

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    “There was once and is still a carpenter in Collon, who was anxious to be also a farmer.”

    CBÉS 0676

    Peggy O' Reilly

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  13. Local Industries

    CBÉS 0676

    Peggy O' Reilly

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  14. Festival Customs

    CBÉS 0676

    Peggy O' Reilly

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  15. Local Tailors

    CBÉS 0676

    Peggy O' Reilly

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  16. Local Churches and Towers

    CBÉS 0676

    Peggy O' Reilly

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  17. Proverbs

    CBÉS 0676

    Peggy O' Reilly

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    “About 100 years ago there lived a woman in Kingscourt...”

    CBÉS 1008

    James Byrne, Peggy O' Reilly

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