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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. Glenafana

    CBÉS 0372

    Breda Roche, John Aherne

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  2. A Song of Róisín Dubh

    CBÉS 0381

    John Aherne

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  3. Pishogues

    CBÉS 0513

    John Aherne, Maura Walshe

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  4. Local Marriage Customs

    CBÉS 0513

    John Aherne, Maura Walshe

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  5. Old Crafts

    CBÉS 0513

    John Aherne, Maura Walshe

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  6. Local Cures

    CBÉS 0513

    John Aherne, Maura Walshe

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  7. Forts

    CBÉS 0513

    John Aherne, Maura Walshe

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    “I was returning from a neighbour's house at midnight one night + when going up the boreen leading to my own house...”

    CBÉS 0514

    John Aherne

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  9. (no title)

    “Another night I was on the same boreen and heard what I thought was a lot of donkeys galloping...”

    CBÉS 0514

    John Aherne

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  10. The Headless Coach

    CBÉS 0514

    John Aherne

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    “As a tailor I worked in the houses for the people...”

    CBÉS 0514

    John Aherne

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  12. (no title)

    “The present school house was a church in the olden times and it is thought by some, even to the present day...”

    CBÉS 0514

    John Aherne

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  13. (no title)

    “A man lived near a lios not far from Kilbehenny. One night a poor man called to him for a night's lodging...”

    CBÉS 0514

    John Aherne

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  14. (no title)

    “About 65 years ago two girls and a boy of this district were supposed to be "going with the fairies"...”

    CBÉS 0514

    John Aherne

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  15. (no title)

    “In 1840 the Protestant minister of Mitchelstown made an attempt to build a Prot. church in the present Catholic burial ground...”

    CBÉS 0514

    John Aherne

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  16. (no title)

    “A family names O Neill lived in Knockrour in Kilbehenny. The mother was paralysed and had been some years in the bed.”

    CBÉS 0514

    John Aherne

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  17. (no title)

    “Two men opened a grave in Kilbehenny at midnight seemingly to cure the daughter of one of them who was seriously...”

    CBÉS 0514

    John Aherne

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  18. (no title)

    “Two Kilbehenny men, Seán Owen and Dan Foley heard that "all who were to die within the year would have to visit...”

    CBÉS 0514

    John Aherne

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  19. (no title)

    “There was a pathway through the graveyard making a shortcut to Furrow.”

    CBÉS 0514

    John Aherne

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  20. (no title)

    “Where the Parish Proest of Kilbehenny now lives there lived about 140 years ago a gentleman by the name of Hayes.”

    CBÉS 0514

    John Aherne

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