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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. Manorhamilton

    CBÉS 0197

    D. Boyd, T. Armstrong

    Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim

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  2. Eastate - The Landlord - Manorhamilton

    CBÉS 0197

    D. Boyd

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  3. Food

    CBÉS 0197

    Rev. James Greer

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  4. Local Cures

    CBÉS 0197

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  5. Religions

    CBÉS 0197

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    “Turkies are harder to rear than any other fowl in a farmyard and get many diseases unknown in any other fowl.”

    CBÉS 0197

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  7. Wake and Funeral Customs in Leitrim

    CBÉS 0197

    D. Boyd

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  8. Belief in Fairies

    CBÉS 0197

    J. Boyd

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  9. Belief in Fairies

    “A farmer lost a great deal of cattle one year.”

    CBÉS 0197

    Johnston Clarke

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  10. Belief in Fairies

    “Near a house in Ballaghameehan was an old fort and the people of the house were accustomed to throw ashes ect into it.”

    CBÉS 0197

    Johnston Clarke

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  11. Belief in Fairies

    “A man, passing his byre to see his cattle in the field, saw an old woman coming out of the byre with a bundle of straw in her hand.”

    CBÉS 0197

    Johnston Clarke

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  12. The Banshee

    CBÉS 0197

    D. Boyd

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  13. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0197

    D. Boyd, Dean Coulter

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  14. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0197

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  15. Rush Candles

    CBÉS 0197

    D. Boyd

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  16. Marriage Customs

    CBÉS 0197

    Rev. F. J. Patterson

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  17. Bird-Lore

    CBÉS 0197

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  18. Homemade Toys

    CBÉS 0197

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  19. A Bow and Arrow

    CBÉS 0197

    D. Boyd

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  20. A Game

    CBÉS 0197

    D. Boyd

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