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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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    “Magoury is situated about a mile outside Drangan.”

    CBÉS 0557

    Mr Walshe

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    “A certain woman who was drunk swore on Fr Sheehy.”

    CBÉS 0557

    Mr Lonergan

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    “A man named Clear lived in Kilbury about 1730.”

    CBÉS 0557

    Mr Lonergan

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  4. Story

    CBÉS 0557

    Josephine Denny, Josephine White

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    “In former times Magoury was a parish an Monks lived there.”

    CBÉS 0557

    Mrs R. Maher

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    “A long time ago when the Monks were in Magoury one Monk named Declan had a habit of reading his Office under a certain tree.”

    CBÉS 0557

    Mrs R. Maher

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    “St Columba prophesied that there is going to be a war between the north and south of Ireland”

    CBÉS 0557

    Mrs O Meara

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    “There is an old story about Gleann na Muice Duibe bridge.”

    CBÉS 0557

    Mrs O Meara

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    “Tom Phelan was a great weight-thrower.”

    CBÉS 0557

    Mrs O Meara

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    “The house in which Rev Father Moloney curate of Mullinahone lives in”

    CBÉS 0557

    Mrs O Meara

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  11. Local Beliefs about the Weather

    CBÉS 0557

    Mrs O Meara

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  12. Fethard - The Birthplace of Many Illustrious Men

    CBÉS 0557

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  13. Mass Rock

    CBÉS 0557

    Nellie Davis, Patrick Davis

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  14. Mass Path

    CBÉS 0557

    Nellie Davis, Patrick Davis

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  15. Mass Rock

    CBÉS 0557

    Daniel Morrisey, John Lonergan

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  16. The Penal Days - Priest Hunting

    CBÉS 0560

    Michael Tobin, Pat Purcell

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  17. Collecting Tithes

    CBÉS 0560

    Mr John Shelly, Thomas Dunne

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  18. Sir John Bourke of Brittas

    CBÉS 0560

    Alice Power, Edmond Cooney

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  19. Penal Times

    CBÉS 0560

    Patrick Tyrrell

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  20. Penal Times

    CBÉS 0560

    Mary Landy, William Maher

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