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

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    “There is a stream or Glaise 1/2 mile E. of Macroom called Glaisín a' Púca about which the following is told.”

    CBÉS 0342

    Mary Lehane

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    “The local graveyard is attached to the Macroom Protestant Church off Castle Street.”

    CBÉS 0342

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    “About 6 miles north-east of the town of Macroom near the village of Ballinamorris in the parish of Aghina are the remains of an unfinished church which was partly built in the year 1836.”

    CBÉS 0342

    Patrick Horgan

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    “There lived at one time in Blarney, a man who dreamt that a can of gold was hidden on the bridge of Macroom.”

    CBÉS 0348

    Mary Callaghan, Patrick Hanlon

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  5. An Incident in Connection with the Death of the Late Colonel Hutchenson, Codrain, Macroom

    CBÉS 0390

    Laurence Mc Sweeney

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  6. A Song

    “The tramp of the trooper is heard at Macroom”

    CBÉS 0460

    Eugene Moriarty, John Moriarty

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    “Some years ago there lived at Macroom Co. Cork three sisters and each of them was in love with the same boy.”

    CBÉS 0513

    Michael Colbert

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