School: Cluain Uaithne Beag

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1. Animal Folklore (continued)

   

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   Local origin; breeds; faithful dogs; dogs "crying" at night, and its significance; cat stories; the "black" cat; and good luck connected with hens Cats as weather prophets. Dogs as prophets. Local breeds of dogs, their origin and any anecdotes bearing on it.

   

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2. Folklore of the Farm

   

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   A start may be made with the farm itself as an economic unit in Irish life; its size: the variations of its boundaries during successive tenancies and their causes; how ownership has been acquired, by inheritance, marriage, purchase, etc; traditions of the land struggle which still survive, evictions; "emergency", farms and homesteads, "Land League", huts; rents; rates and "county cess"; during the past 100 years; unusual conditions associated with tenancies - the writer is ware of certain lands in Co. Wicklow, being once held at a

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