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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. Díseart Aengusa

    CBÉS 0506

    Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail, Mr Edward O Connell, Mr James Mc Garry, Mrs O Connell, Tim Tierney

    Díseart Aengusa, Co. Limerick

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  2. The Graveyard of Cealltar

    CBÉS 0506

    Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail

    Cealltar, Co. Limerick

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  3. Caherass

    CBÉS 0506

    Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail, Mrs Bridget Lyons, Patrick Murphy

    Caherass, Co. Limerick

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  4. An Stiogán

    CBÉS 0508

    Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail

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    “If you take three meals of nettles between Old May Day and New May Day...”

    CBÉS 0508

    Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail

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    “Orenagrook (? Árd na gcruach) means the hill of the reeks...”

    CBÉS 0508

    Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail, P. Dore

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    “This moment a male blackbird with a white feather in his wing...”

    CBÉS 0508

    Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail

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    “I am a cake from Ballybake, I ran away from two old maids...”

    CBÉS 0508

    Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail

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  9. Old Rhyme

    “Twas like an eagle in the sky when the eagle began to roar...”

    CBÉS 0508

    Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail, Mrs M Leo

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    “You must not graft a pear scion upon an apple stock.”

    CBÉS 0508

    Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail

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