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

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    “The people in olden times used to eat three meals in the day the breakfast the dinner and the supper.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Anna Bella Brogan, Condy Brogan

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    “The people usen't to get as many kinds of bread in olden times as they get now.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Anna Bella Brogan, Condy Brogan

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    “Once upon a time a man went away to look for work.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Anna Bella Brogan, Condy Brogan

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    “Once upon a time there lived two children a boy and a girl and their names were Pat and Mary.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Anna Bella Brogan, James Brogan

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    “Jimmie McGroarty that lived in Drimboarty was a very good mower.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Anna Bella Brogan, James Brogan

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    “In olden times the people used to be talking about the lucky days of getting married on.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Anna Bella Brogan, James Brogan

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    “In olden times there was a lot of priests killed and hunted in this part.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Anna Bella Brogan, James Brogan

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    “There is a caoran at our house called the molly-bán. It got this names because there used to grow white grass and fog on it.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Anna Bella Brogan, James Brogan

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    “There is a spot in Dan Quinn's hill in Drumboarty called Páirc Garbh.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Anna Bella Brogan, James Brogan

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    “The cure for the Rose is McCahill's blood and butter.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Anna Bella Brogan, James Brogan

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    “Tullynaha is the name of the townland in which I live and it is in the parish of Inver.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Anna Bella Brogan, James Brogan

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    “The farmers put in a crop every year. They put manuer and lime on them to grow better.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Anna Bella Brogan, James Brogan

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    “The people in olden times used to be twenty years when they started to wear shoes.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Anna Bella Brogan, James Brogan

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    “There was a tailor living here a long time ago the names of John Meehan and he used to make every kind of clothes.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Anna Bella Brogan, James Brogan

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    “There is a stone the shape of a tombstone in Clogher in Cathrine Kelly's hill.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Anna Bella Brogan, James Brogan

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    “There is an old castle down in Glenties. The farm of land that it is on is belonging to men called Wards.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Anna Bella Brogan, James Brogan

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