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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. Urn on Boley Hill

    CBÉS 0889

    Laurence Mc Guinness

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  2. An Incident of '98

    CBÉS 0889

    Daniel White

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  3. How Priest Killers Were Discovered

    CBÉS 0889

    John Byrne

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  4. (no title)

    “According to tradition the people of Teampall Bhuidhe were a very industrious people.”

    CBÉS 0889

    Mr John Kavanagh

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  5. Nail-Making

    CBÉS 0889

    Robert Morris

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  6. (no title)

    “The Barony of the Macamores extends almost to Ballycanew.”

    CBÉS 0889

    John Rathwell

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  7. (no title)

    “As in other districts the beliefs in butter-stealing was very firmly ingrafted in the people John's district.”

    CBÉS 0889

    William Sunderland

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  8. (no title)

    “Mr Whelan told me that the people of Tomsilla and Banogue were extremely superstitions chiefly about ghosts.”

    CBÉS 0889

    Thomas Whelan

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  9. (no title)

    “The people of Ballycanew provided their own lights up to the time the candles now used came on the market.”

    CBÉS 0889

    Mr Thomas Bass

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  10. (no title)

    “According to Mr. Butler it has been passed down the various generations that three soldiers were killed...”

    CBÉS 0889

    Thomas Butler

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  11. Cures and Charms

    CBÉS 0889

    C. Mullane

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  12. Cures

    CBÉS 0889

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  13. (no title)

    “The Bean Sighe is no stranger to the people of Ballycanew.”

    CBÉS 0889

    Laurence Mc Guinness

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  14. (no title)

    “An extensive farmer lived in Ballyfinn about fifty years ago.”

    CBÉS 0889

    Laurence Mc Guinness

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  15. (no title)

    “About two days before the fatal accident...”

    CBÉS 0889

    Mr John Orr

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  16. (no title)

    “About forty years ago a man named Doyle died in Killenagh in the evening...”

    CBÉS 0889

    John Rathwell

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  17. (no title)

    “Over 35 years ago I talked with many of the old and middle-aged people of all classes.”

    CBÉS 0889

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  18. (no title)

    “Horse-breeding was a great industry in this district and is still.”

    CBÉS 0889

    William Sunderland

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  19. (no title)

    “About 36 years ago I heard from an old man in Ballycanew that dyeing was carried on here.”

    CBÉS 0889

    Mr Sinnot

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  20. (no title)

    “Years ago farmers dug marl a kind of white clay out of ground and used it as manure for the land.”

    CBÉS 0889

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