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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. An Cóiste Bodhar

    CBÉS 0514

    Mrs Hannah Cleary, Pádraig S. O Cadhla

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  2. The Dead Hunt

    CBÉS 0514

    Willie Howard

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  3. The Dead Hunt

    CBÉS 0514

    Willie Howard

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  4. The Dead Hunt

    CBÉS 0514

    Mrs Hannah Cleary

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    “One evening about 40 yrs. ago a man was coming home from the village of Ballylanders.”

    CBÉS 0514

    Mrs Hannah Cleary

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    “About fifty years ago there lived in Labamologa, in the county of Limerick and about six miles from Mitchelstown a man...”

    CBÉS 0514

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    “You often hear tell of Donovan the hedge schoolmaster" said Mrs Cleary.”

    CBÉS 0514

    Mrs Cleary

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    “Almost directly opposite Denis Dwyers' cottage in Ballyfaskin, in the Co. of Limerick and in the barony of Coshlea...”

    CBÉS 0514

    William Howard

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    “There was a fellow working down there at Jack Gallahues in Ballyfaskin...”

    CBÉS 0514

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    “You remember that Staunton girl I told you about that Patcheen Lyons met the day he was out hunting”

    CBÉS 0514

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    “When we were out on the run we were sleeping in a house not a thousand miles from here...”

    CBÉS 0514

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    “One night during the Civil-war Liam and a company of the boys were travelling through a district in West Cork.”

    CBÉS 0514

    Mrs Hannah Cleary

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    “About twenty years ago Paddy Green Mahony down there in Ballyfaskin, Ballylarders, Co. Limerick was cutting hay...”

    CBÉS 0514

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  14. (no title)

    “Those land-grabbers never had a bit of luck. The widows curse was on them and on their children.”

    CBÉS 0514

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    “There was a famous walker who lived in Lackendarra, Anglesboro in the Parish of Kilbehenny called John Mansel...”

    CBÉS 0514

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    “Another account says that one time 'Step' had a very sore foot and was unable to walk.”

    CBÉS 0514

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    “About thirty years ago a tree had been knocked down over in Dungrud by a storm.”

    CBÉS 0514

    William Galvin Esq.

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  18. Gold

    CBÉS 0514

    William Casey Esq.

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    “There is gold said to be buried on the Galtees.”

    CBÉS 0514

    Mrs Hannah Cleary

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  20. The Massy Family

    CBÉS 0514

    Patrick J. Kiely, William Casey Esq.

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