The Schools’ Collection

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

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  1. The Galway Market

    CBÉS 0007

    Michael O' Toole, Michael Prendergast

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  2. The Galway Man

    CBÉS 0007

    Edward King, Michael O' Toole

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  3. Composition - The Old Witch in Galway

    CBÉS 0012

    Caitlín Ní Mhulláin, Seán Ó Mulláin

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  4. (no title)

    There was an old woman living in Sliabh Muire in Co. Galway.

    CBÉS 0015

    Peggy Naughton, Peter Naughton

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  5. Landlords - Oranmore, Co. Galway

    CBÉS 0032

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  6. (no title)

    There is a large stone in a field on the road to Galway from Oranmore and beside Gurrane Lodge.

    CBÉS 0032

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  7. (no title)

    One day an army of soldiers was marching on the road from Galway to Dublin.

    CBÉS 0032

    Padraic de Burca

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  8. (no title)

    One night a man who was living in Oranmore was returning home from a fair in Galway.

    CBÉS 0032

    Padraic O Mógáin

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  9. Galway Boys

    CBÉS 0032

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  10. (no title)

    On Mr De Valeras first visit to Galway in the year 1913 the Sinn Féiners engaged all the sidecars in the parishes to go to the meeting.

    CBÉS 0033B

    Kitty Moran, Mrs Thomas Moran

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  11. Story

    There was once a man living on the borders of Clare and Galway...

    CBÉS 0033B

    Martin Kelly, Rose Niland

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  12. The Galway Blazers

    CBÉS 0034

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  13. The Galway Blazers

    CBÉS 0035

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  14. (no title)

    About ninety years ago, a blacksmith lived in Knockroe, four miles from Dunmore, Co. Galway.

    CBÉS 0037

    Eibhlín Ní Ailledéa, Mrs Halliday

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  15. (no title)

    Turf mould got into the eye of Mrs Burke (deceased) Knockroe, Dunmore, Co. Galway and she visited an old man who lived in Claddagh, Tuam, who was known to set charms for sicknesses and complaints of various kinds.

    CBÉS 0037

    Eibhlín Ní Ailledéa, Mrs M. Halliday

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  16. (no title)

    Noonan said that his sister, Mrs Mee, Knickaams, Glenamaddy, Galway, became very ill on the tenth day after her confinement.

    CBÉS 0037

    Eibhlín Ní Ailledéa, Peter Noonan

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  17. (no title)

    In olden times there lived in Strawberryhill, Dunmore, Co. Galway a poor man who had but two goats and the people called him Bodach na nGabhar.

    CBÉS 0037

    Eibhlín Ní Ailledéa, James Mullen

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  18. (no title)

    There was a landlord named Keeley living in a house in Carrowkeel, Dunmore, Co. Galway.

    CBÉS 0037

    Eibhlín Ní Ailledéa, Mrs Halliday

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  19. (no title)

    A wealthy man named Loughy lived in Carraroe, Dunmore, Co. Galway.

    CBÉS 0037

    Eibhlín Ní Ailledéa, Mrs M. Halliday

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  20. (no title)

    A man named Tom Whyte from Lissyconnor , Dunmore, Co.Galway

    CBÉS 0038

    Tom Whyte

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