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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. Names of Fields

    CBÉS 0685

    Stamullen, Co. Meath

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  2. Stamullen

    CBÉS 0685

    John Healy

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  3. Stamullen

    CBÉS 0685

    Joseph Mathews

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  4. Tubberstool Well

    CBÉS 0685

    Iris Hanly

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    “It is stated that there was a charity boiler that used boil porridge for the people at the time of the famine...”

    CBÉS 0685

    John Healy

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  6. How Picket Hill Got its Name on the Farm of Mr T. McCourt Stamullen

    CBÉS 0685

    John Healy

    Stamullen, Co. Meath

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    “It is stated that Cromwell brought his cannon to Picket Hill and blew the roof of the old Church in Stamullen grave-yard.”

    CBÉS 0685

    John Healy

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  8. How the Rebel's Field Got its Name

    CBÉS 0685

    John Healy

    Stamullen, Co. Meath

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    “At one time Mr Purfield's and Mrs Filgate's land was all under flax.”

    CBÉS 0685

    John Healy

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    “There was a big flour mill and a furze mill where the mill yard in Stamullen is now.”

    CBÉS 0685

    John Clarke

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    “There are three holes in the fields belonging to Mrs Filgate where they used to steep the flax grown, in Kilbrickstown and Stedalt.”

    CBÉS 0685

    John Clarke

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  12. Gormanstown

    CBÉS 0685

    Joseph Mathews

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    “The house of Mosney which still remains in perfect condition having a family dwelling in it is said to have been...”

    CBÉS 0685

    Betty Mc Cullen, Mrs M. Mc Cullen

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    “In the Castle grounds there are very ancient Cloisters situated.”

    CBÉS 0685

    Mary Fleming

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    “There is a great underground passage about two miles long in Headland Way (a field in the Gormanstown Demesne...”

    CBÉS 0685

    Mary Fleming

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    “There is a wood called Hopyard in the Gormanstown Demesne where Hops were grown years ago.”

    CBÉS 0685

    Mary Fleming

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    “Convenient to the village of Gormanstown there is a place called Legdoory, and in it are the remains of an old flour mill...”

    CBÉS 0685

    Mary Fleming

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    “There has always been a legend about the Gormanstown family that foxes leave their neighbouring coverts and...”

    CBÉS 0685

    Mary Fleming

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    “During Cromwells invasion of Ireland when advanceing to take possession of Gormanstown Castle his soldiers...”

    CBÉS 0685

    Roger Murphy

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    “The time of the priest hunting in Ireland it is said that Lord Gormanstown used to hide a priest.”

    CBÉS 0685

    Robert Carolan

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