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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. Seaweed

    CBÉS 0165

    Alexander Morrison

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  2. Seaweed

    CBÉS 0275

    Seán Ó Súilleabháin

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  3. Seaweed

    CBÉS 0275

    Seán Ó Néill

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    “Maurice Fielding was drowned 43 years ago when bringing some seaweed in a boat from Carn í Neid.”

    CBÉS 0313

    Cornelius Keohane, Michael O' Regan

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    “Long ago a man was coming from the strand with seaweed.”

    CBÉS 0426

    Patrick Deane

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  6. Seaweed

    CBÉS 0432

    John Foley, John Regan

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  7. Seaweed Rocks

    CBÉS 0432

    Euge Carroll, John Regan

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    “A part of the strand near Derrynane supplies many of local inhabitants with "wrecked weeds" - seaweed torn up by tide or storm...”

    CBÉS 0465

    Denis O' Sullivan

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    “About half a mile from Lahinch, there is an old road leading down to the sea at Cregg. Down this road people go to get seaweed.”

    CBÉS 0621

    Austin Curtin

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    “The people of Doonbeg were going on Sundays to the sea picking seaweed and they would not go to Mass.”

    CBÉS 0629

    Nolan, Mai Power

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  11. Seaweed as Manure - Locally Called 'Woar'

    CBÉS 0876

    James Roche

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