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  1. activities
    1. economic activities
      1. agriculture (~2,659)
        1. animal husbandry (~2,587)
          1. calling animals (~71)
          2. medicine for animal sicknesses (~175)
            1. blackleg (~21)
            2. elf-shot (~18)
            3. farcy (~12)
            4. worms (~35)
        2. butter and churns (~3,280)
        3. potatoes (~2,701)
      2. catching animals
        1. fishing (~216)
      3. trade
        1. buying and selling (~3,622)
      4. trades and crafts (~4,680)
        1. basket-making (~471)
        2. candle-making (~728)
        3. coopering (~87)
        4. dyeing (~134)
        5. lime-burning (~280)
        6. nail-making (~117)
        7. rope-making (~133)
        8. smithing (~2,389)
        9. soap-making (~74)
        10. spinning and weaving (~482)
        11. tanning (~61)
        12. thatching (~353)
    2. medical practice
      1. folk medicine (~11,815)
        1. medicine for human sicknesses
          1. backache (~25)
          2. bleeding (~48)
          3. boils (~39)
          4. broken or dislocated bones (~21)
          5. burns (~116)
          6. cancer (~20)
          7. chilblains (~51)
          8. colds (~62)
          9. corns (~27)
          10. cough (~30)
          11. cuts and wounds (~41)
          12. earache (~35)
          13. erysipelas (~99)
          14. fallen breastbone (~18)
          15. headache (~58)
          16. hiccups (~28)
          17. jaundice (~62)
          18. measles (~23)
          19. mumps (~70)
          20. rheumatism (~57)
          21. rickets (~12)
          22. ringworm (~99)
          23. sciatica (~7)
          24. scrofula (~18)
          25. sore eyes (~94)
          26. sore throat (~69)
          27. sprains (~94)
          28. sties (~76)
          29. stings (~29)
          30. thorns (~32)
          31. thrush (~69)
          32. toothache (~180)
          33. tuberculosis (~27)
          34. warts (~307)
          35. whitlow (~25)
          36. whooping-cough (~234)
    3. social activities (~7)
      1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
        1. games
          1. wake games (~170)
        2. toys (~1,598)
      2. rites of passage (~573)
        1. birth (~49)
        2. death (~1,076)
        3. marriage (~4,283)
    4. supernatural practices
      1. evil eye (~50)
  2. agents (~1)
    1. animal-lore (~1,185)
      1. bird-lore (~2,478)
        1. wrens (~39)
      2. foxes (~151)
      3. newts (~8)
    2. historical persons (~5,068)
      1. Brian Boru (~7)
      2. Charles Stewart Parnell (~6)
      3. Cromwell (~315)
      4. Daniel O'Connell (~175)
      5. Dean Swift (~11)
      6. Denis Browne (Denis of the Rope) (~25)
      7. Grace O'Malley (~10)
      8. Hugh Roe O'Donnell (~5)
      9. Myles the Slasher (~9)
      10. Ned of the Hill (~25)
      11. O'Sullivan Beare (~30)
      12. Owen Roe O'Neill (~14)
      13. Patrick Sarsfield (~22)
      14. Seán na Sagart (~51)
      15. Theobald Wolfe Tone (~5)
      16. Vikings (~42)
        1. Viking beer (~26)
    3. people
      1. factions (~230)
      2. landlords (~17)
      3. names (~166)
      4. robbers (~423)
      5. secret societies (~18)
        1. Fenians (~141)
        2. Ribbonmen (~10)
        3. Whiteboys (~74)
    4. people by social grouping
      1. palatines (~4)
      2. spalpeens (~14)
      3. travellers (~3,023)
    5. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
      1. Balar (~5)
      2. banshees (~369)
      3. Biddy Early (~186)
      4. black pig (~84)
      5. Conall Cearnach (~2)
      6. Conchobhar Mac Neasa (~3)
      7. Cormac Mac Airt (~4)
      8. Crom (~11)
      9. Cú Chulainn (~40)
      10. Donn Fírinne (~10)
      11. Fianna (~595)
        1. Céadach (~8)
        2. Feardhomhain (~6)
        3. Fionn Mac Cumhaill (~137)
        4. Oisín (~27)
      12. giants (~518)
      13. Glas Ghoibhneann (~76)
      14. Gobán Saor (~181)
      15. hags (~139)
        1. Hag of Beara (~28)
        2. hare-hag (~41)
      16. leprechauns (~1,007)
      17. magicians (~35)
      18. mermaids (~305)
      19. Petticoat Loose (~75)
      20. saints
        1. Brigid (~124)
        2. Colm Cille (~265)
        3. Patrick (~489)
      21. soothsayers (~116)
      22. water-horses (~138)
      23. Will-o’-the-wisp (~74)
  3. events
    1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
      1. Ash Wednesday (~39)
      2. Christmas (~455)
      3. Easter (~163)
      4. Epiphany (~58)
      5. Feast of St Brigid (~366)
      6. Feast of St John (~208)
      7. Feast of St Martin (~177)
      8. Feast of St Patrick (~140)
      9. Feast of St Stephen (~402)
      10. Good Friday (~52)
      11. Halloween (~934)
      12. May (~639)
      13. New Year (~74)
      14. Shrovetide (~188)
      15. the Days of the Brindled Cow (~51)
      16. Whitsun (~59)
    2. hardship (~1,565)
      1. drowning (~292)
      2. fires (~306)
      3. plagues and epidemics (~104)
      4. shipwrecks (~384)
  4. genre
    1. belief (~391)
      1. folk belief (~2,535)
        1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    2. folk drama (~8)
    3. glossaries (~227)
    4. narratives (~478)
      1. religious tales (~1,085)
        1. the Holy Family (~429)
    5. poetry
      1. folk poetry (~9,504)
      2. the beggars' litany (~23)
    6. verbal arts (~1,483)
      1. charms (~104)
      2. curses (~34)
      3. jokes (~6,086)
      4. prayers (~3,266)
      5. proverbs (~4,377)
      6. riddles (~7,209)
    7. weather-lore (~6,442)
  5. objects
    1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
      1. accessories (~307)
      2. shoes (~1,841)
    2. man-made structures
      1. buildings
        1. residential buildings (~2,723)
        2. schools (~4,094)
      2. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
        1. graveyards (~2,501)
      3. public infrastructure
        1. roads (~2,778)
  6. place-space-environment
    1. land management (~4,110)
    2. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
      1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    3. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
  7. processes and phenomena
    1. drought (~35)
    2. frost and snow (~299)
    3. rain and floods (~124)
    4. severe weather (~1,727)
    5. thunder and lightning (~109)
    6. winds (~357)
  8. products
    1. food products (~3,601)
      1. bread (~2,063)
  9. time
    1. historical periods by name (~25)
      1. 1798 (~642)
      2. Battle of Aughrim (~2)
      3. Battle of Clontarf (~2)
      4. Battle of Kinsale (~2)
      5. Battle of Knocknanuss (~6)
      6. Battle of the Boyne (~13)
      7. penal times (~4,335)
      8. the great famine (~4,013)
      9. War of Independence (~9)