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

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  1. List of Irish Words That Have Been Adopted into English Speech in Kilbehenry

    CBÉS 0514

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  2. Sites of Historic Interest in the Locality

    CBÉS 0514

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  3. Ancient Roads

    CBÉS 0514

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  4. Local Industries That Have Disappeared

    CBÉS 0514

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  5. Hedge-Schools

    CBÉS 0514

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  6. Agricultural and Industrial Implements and Household Utensils No Longer Used

    CBÉS 0514

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  7. Ruling Irish Family in the District Before the Establishment of English Power

    CBÉS 0514

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  8. Local Estate

    CBÉS 0514

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  9. Faction Fights

    CBÉS 0514

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  10. Folk Cures and Charms

    CBÉS 0514

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  11. Legends Connected with Local Monuments

    CBÉS 0514

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  12. Existence of a Rare Valuable Rock

    CBÉS 0514

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    “One morning in April in the year 1922 I was going to my work in Mitchelstown.”

    CBÉS 0514

    Paul O Connor

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    “About 40 years ago my grandfather and another man had a contract taken of making drains in the Galtee Mountains.”

    CBÉS 0514

    Paul O Connor

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    “There was a man coming from Mitchelstown one night about eleven oclock with a load of timber.”

    CBÉS 0514

    Eily O Sullivan

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    “Once upon a time there lived a man and a woman. They had no family so they had to work very hard.”

    CBÉS 0514

    Margaret Noonan

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    “There was a man working in a house in this parish. He was sleeping in a settle in the kitchen.”

    CBÉS 0514

    Peg Fitzgerald

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    “There was in Kinbehenny a man who went for a long journey by train.”

    CBÉS 0514

    Peg Fitzgerald

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    CBÉS 0514

    Josie Coshe

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    “There were once a showmaker and his wife. They went to bed one night.”

    CBÉS 0514

    Mary Kate O' Brien

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