The Schools’ Collection

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

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  1. (no title)

    Lismirrane is the official name of this school at present. ...

    CBÉS 0120

    Dudley J. Solan

    Lismiraun, Co. Mayo

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  2. Pat Walsh and the Monster

    CBÉS 0120

    James Brennan, Luke Canavan, Thomas Brennan

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    Long ago the village of Killedan had a very large population. ...

    CBÉS 0120

    Bernard Mc Nicholas, D. Solan

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  4. Tobar Cuimhne

    CBÉS 0120

    Tommie Sweeney

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  5. Léana Uaitéir

    CBÉS 0120

    Tom Ward

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  6. A Fairy Bush

    CBÉS 0120

    Anthony Walsh, Mary Byrne

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    The above story and the following one...

    CBÉS 0120

    Anthony Walsh, Mary Byrne

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    This is a story I got from my grandmother...

    CBÉS 0120

    Maureen Durkan, Mrs Mary Joyce

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    I got the following story also from...

    CBÉS 0120

    Maureen Durkan, Mrs Mary Joyce

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    Jim Molloy of Clooneen...

    CBÉS 0120

    Jim Molloy, Paddy Jeffers

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  11. The Round Tower of Meelick

    CBÉS 0120

    James Conwell, Paddy Jeffers

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    There was an old woman in Treenfaure...

    CBÉS 0120

    Margaret Brennan, Mary Byrne

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    Thomas Connors' first wife was...

    CBÉS 0120

    Paddy Jeffers, Thomas Jeffers

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    Long ago a man and his wife...

    CBÉS 0120

    Maureen Durkan, Mrs Durkan

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    A short time ago there lived a priest...

    CBÉS 0120

    Mary Byrne

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    A few weeks ago a man named Pat...

    CBÉS 0120

    Mary Byrne, Pat Brennan Richard

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  17. A Story

    CBÉS 0120

    Paddy Jeffers, Thomas Jeffers

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    Nancie O Brien's father was a country butcher. ...

    CBÉS 0120

    Luke Cannavan, Nancie O Brien, Tommie Sweeney

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    Once upon a time there grew a lone bush...

    CBÉS 0120

    James Brennan

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    After the war Father O Hara got a large sum of money...

    CBÉS 0120

    James Brennan

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