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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. Local Riddles

    CBÉS 0750

    Thomas Clogher

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  2. Proverbs

    CBÉS 0750

    Thomas Clogher

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  3. The Famine

    CBÉS 0750

    Thomas Clogher

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  4. The Dame and Her Goose

    CBÉS 0750

    Thomas Clogher

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  5. Herbs and Weeds

    CBÉS 0750

    Thomas Clogher

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  6. Food of the People

    CBÉS 0750

    Thomas Clogher

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  7. Travelling Folk

    CBÉS 0750

    Thomas Clogher

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  8. Local Heroes

    CBÉS 0750

    Thomas Clogher

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  9. The Care of the Feet

    CBÉS 0750

    Thomas Clogher

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    “It happened that when St Patrick was crossing over the mountains from Clogher he became hungry.”

    CBÉS 0955

    Hugh Murray

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    “There is a great stone in Clogher till the present day and there was a giant buried under it.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Aloysious Mac Shane, Peter Mc Shane

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    “There is a stone the shape of a tombstone in Clogher in Cathrine Kelly's hill.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Anna Bella Brogan, James Brogan

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  13. (no title)

    “Once upon a time there was a poet named Patrick Burke of Clogher (in this district).”

    CBÉS 1031

    Bridget Campbell, Mrs Bridget Mc Grory

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  14. (no title)

    “Once upon a time there was an old altar built up in Clogher.”

    CBÉS 1031

    James Mc Groary, Jim Mc Groary

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