The Schools’ Collection

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

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  1. Lixnaw Monument

    CBÉS 0399

    Michael Lynch

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  2. Gold in Lixnaw

    CBÉS 0399

    Denis Mulvihill

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    Long ago there was a family living near Lixnaw.

    CBÉS 0406

    Kitty Barry, Michael Daily

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  4. (no title)

    Paddy Shanahan was coming home from Lixnaw with a horse and car as he passed a fort his horse stopped and would not go for him.

    CBÉS 0406

    John Shanahan, Mary Shanahan

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  5. An Old Story

    At one time a man by the name of John Healy was putting in panes of glass in the Lixnaw Convent....

    CBÉS 0407D

    Seán D. Ó Loinsigh

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  6. (no title)

    A certain farmer in Lixnaw had no luck with butter.

    CBÉS 0408

    Tom Daly

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    John Lyons (deceased) of Ballyhorgan, Lixnaw, went out one night torching up Gentleman's Avenue, Ballyhorgan ...

    CBÉS 0408

    Mrs Norah Costello

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    My father knows a man in the Lixnaw parish who had his coffin made for twenty years, and died a few years ago.

    CBÉS 0409

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  9. Lixnaw

    CBÉS 0410

    Maureen Dore

    Lixnaw, Co. Kerry

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  10. Lixnaw

    CBÉS 0410

    Mary Brosnan

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  11. (no title)

    There is a monument situated at the east side of the village of Lixnaw.

    CBÉS 0411

    Joe Silles

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  12. Legends of the Lords of Lixnaw

    CBÉS 0412

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    About the year 1800 Father John O'Halloran was parish priest of Lixnaw.

    CBÉS 0412

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    There was born at Ballintogher about a mile to the east of Lixnaw village a child who was named John Barns, afterwards known as Shown Barns.

    CBÉS 0412

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  15. The Earls of Lixnaw and The Old Court

    CBÉS 0412

    Mr Michael O' Connell

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  16. (no title)

    One day two or three girls went from Baltovin to the Lixnaw races...

    CBÉS 0440

    Mrs Griffin, Nora Mc Grath

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    The parish priest of Lixnaw, all his butter was carried with pishogues.

    CBÉS 0494

    Mrs Ellen Woulfe

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