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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. Gaimbín

    CBÉS 0507

    Mr O Neill

    Transcript

  2. (no title)

    “Thoornacrehe = Túr na Croiche. A field on the farm of Michael Toomey, Donoman, Croom.”

    CBÉS 0507

    Patrick Lane

    Transcript

  3. The Woman who Went with the Fairies

    CBÉS 0507

    Seosamh O Fearghail

    Transcript

  4. Carraig an Eitig or Cloch na Sprid

    CBÉS 0516

    Transcript

  5. An Old Story

    CBÉS 0525

    Mrs Mary Kirby

    Transcript

  6. Cnoc na Fírinne

    CBÉS 0528

    Patrick Kelly

    Transcript

  7. Knockfierna

    CBÉS 0528

    Helen Mitchell, Patrick Kelly

    Transcript

  8. Ben Aughlin

    CBÉS 0969

    Swanlinbar, Co. Cavan

    Transcript

  9. (no title)

    “About 50 years ago me and a comrade went at 2 o'clock in the night to the Play bank...”

    CBÉS 0969

    Willie Ford

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  10. (no title)

    “In my father's early days a travelling woman taking the near cut from Florencecourt to Swanlinbar called at our house near the mountain foot.”

    CBÉS 0969

    Pat Malanaphy

    Transcript

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