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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 0869

    Bride Holohan, Mary Holohan

    Grangefertagh, Co. Kilkenny

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  2. Grangefertagh

    CBÉS 0869

    Bride Holohan, Mary Holohan

    Grangefertagh, Co. Kilkenny

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    “One evening when Tom Corcoran came home from school he went out on Tobin's Hill to hurl.”

    CBÉS 0869

    Mary Holohan, Mrs Holohan

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    “There was a man going to be hung one time and the executioner told him that he would give him three days to make up a riddle that none of the Guards would guess.”

    CBÉS 0869

    Mary Holohan

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    “There was a minister living in Johnstown and he was very poor.”

    CBÉS 0869

    Mary Holohan

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    “In some part of Tipperary there was a house where the neighbours always went to play cards in the night time.”

    CBÉS 0869

    Mary Holohan

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    “Tom Corcoran went out on Tobins Hill one day. He had asthma and he went out to get a breath of fresh air.”

    CBÉS 0869

    Mary Holohan

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    “Once upon a time there was a man going to the fair of Portumna from Johnstown.”

    CBÉS 0869

    Mary Holohan

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