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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. Traditions Connected with Our Lord and the Blessed Virgin - The Sevenfold Love of the Mother for Her Son

    CBÉS 0126

    Mrs Mary Peyton

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  2. Na Tincéirí an Dream is Mí-Ámharaí Lá amuigh

    CBÉS 0126

    Mrs Mary Peyton

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  3. The Origin of Tobacco at Wakes

    CBÉS 0126

    Mrs Mary Peyton

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  4. How the Goat Lost its Fleece of Wool

    CBÉS 0126

    Mrs Mary Peyton

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  5. Why the Raideog Never Grew

    CBÉS 0126

    Mrs Mary Peyton

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  6. The Cross on the Asses' Back

    CBÉS 0126

    Mrs Mary Peyton

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  7. Why there Is a Cure in Tow

    CBÉS 0126

    Mrs Mary Peyton

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  8. Why there Is Supposed to Be Poison in the Needle and No Poison in a Cobbler's Awl

    CBÉS 0126

    Mrs Mary Peyton

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  9. Why the Wasp Should Be Killed and the Cricket Spared

    CBÉS 0126

    Mrs Mary Peyton

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  10. The Origin of the Moy

    CBÉS 0126

    Mrs Mary Peyton

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  11. The Water-Horse (Each Uisce)

    CBÉS 0126

    Mrs Mary Peyton

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  12. Places of Interest in the Locality and Stories Connected with them - Geata na hAltóra

    CBÉS 0126

    Mrs Mary Peyton

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  13. Places of Interest in the Locality and Stories Connected with them - Fross Mór

    CBÉS 0126

    Mrs Mary Peyton

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  14. Places of Interest in the Locality and Stories Connected with them - Ballinacurra

    CBÉS 0126

    Mrs Mary Peyton

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  15. Places of Interest in the Locality and Stories Connected with them - The Chapel Field

    CBÉS 0126

    Mrs Mary Peyton

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