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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. Tyrnascragh

    CBÉS 0058

    Tiranascragh, Co. Galway

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  2. Famine Times

    CBÉS 0058

    John E. Bohan

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    “At a place called the Meenen a company Messrs Markanson and King employed a good many men to dig a canal from the Shannon to the bog.”

    CBÉS 0058

    John E. Bohan

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  4. Shannon Fishing

    CBÉS 0058

    John E. Bohan

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  5. Famine Times

    CBÉS 0058

    John E. Bohan

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  6. Family Names that Were Plentiful before the Famine

    CBÉS 0058

    John E. Bohan

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  7. Place Names

    CBÉS 0058

    Tiranascragh, Co. Galway

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  8. Buried Treasure

    CBÉS 0058

    Pat Mullin, Patrick Nevin

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    “There is a lios near Boula about 3 miles from here.”

    CBÉS 0058

    Andrew Muldoon

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  10. Cures

    CBÉS 0058

    Pat Mullin

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  11. Pisreoga

    CBÉS 0058

    Patrick Mehern

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  12. Religious Stories

    CBÉS 0058

    John E. Bohan

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  13. Religious Stories

    CBÉS 0058

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    “A well to-do man in Clonfert dreamt that he would get a bull and if he drank the milk of the first cow that would have a calf from this bull that he would have great faculties...”

    CBÉS 0058

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    “In the townland of Kill is a graveyard not used now.”

    CBÉS 0058

    Patrick Nevin

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    “When Cromwell's soldiers were in Ireland they came to Meelick.”

    CBÉS 0058

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  17. Crafts

    CBÉS 0058

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    “In the village of Ballinalug - (the town in the hollow) it is in a hollow under the Deerpark hill were 35 houses...”

    CBÉS 0058

    John Redden

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  19. Care of the Feet

    CBÉS 0058

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  20. Religious Stories

    CBÉS 0058

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