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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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    “Seo cuid de sna piseogaibh go mbíodh baint aca le lá Bealtaine...”

    CBÉS 0480

    Máiréad Bean Uí Cathláin

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    “Chreideadh na daoine, leis, go ndeineadh seanamhná go mbíodh diabhlaidheacht aca girrfhidhthe díobh féin...”

    CBÉS 0480

    Máiréad Bean Uí Cathláin

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    “Seo nós a bhíodh ar siúbhail timceall na h-áite seo fadó...”

    CBÉS 0480

    Máiréad Bean Uí Cathláin

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    “Seo rud a bhíonn ar siubhal Oidhche Samhna ag daoine óga...”

    CBÉS 0480

    Máiréad Bean Uí Cathláin

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    “Seo rud a bhíonn ar siubhal Oidhche Shamhna ag daoine óga...”

    CBÉS 0480

    Máiréad Bean Uí Cathláin

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    “Tá nós nó dhó ag baint le h-Oidhche Nodlag bheag...”

    CBÉS 0480

    Máiréad Bean Uí Cathláin

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    “There was a man in Ballyguiltenane once, who lived with his son...”

    CBÉS 0480

    Mary Sheehan, Mortimer Sheehan

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    “In a field near Ballyguiltenane school is a deep hole. On May eve fairies are seen there...”

    CBÉS 0480

    Mary Sheehan, Mortimer Sheehan

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    “Once upon a time there lived a youth named Jimmy...”

    CBÉS 0480

    Daniel Flavin, Nancy Windle

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    “Once upon a time there lived a tailor and his wife...”

    CBÉS 0480

    Daniel Flavin, Nancy Windle

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    “Long ago tailors went to houses making clothes. A tailor went one day to a certain house to make clothes...”

    CBÉS 0480

    Daniel Flavin, Nancy Windle

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    “There was a man coming home from a dance about two o'clock...”

    CBÉS 0480

    Daniel Flavin, Mary Mc Evoy

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    “When the Danes came to Ireland in 795 they built castles and strongholds all over the country...”

    CBÉS 0480

    Hannah Enright, Timothy Enright

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    “Long ago a ghost used to appear in Abha na sráide to anyone that would be out after mid-night...”

    CBÉS 0480

    Josephine Culhane, Mrs Tom Culhane

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    “Long ago the pagan priests offered sacrifice on altars called Druidical altars or Chromlechs...”

    CBÉS 0480

    Ned Hanlon, Peggy Hanlon

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    “Páirch na Laogh. It is so called because calves are in it always...”

    CBÉS 0480

    John Ahern, Josephine Culhane, Shiela Ahern, Thomas Culhane

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    “There was a man going to Listowel one morning very early. He met a woman in the road dressed in white, and she was barefooted...”

    CBÉS 0480

    Ned Hanlon, Peggy Hanlon

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    “There lived a woman in Dirreen who gave in to piseóga very much...”

    CBÉS 0480

    John Ahern, Shiela Ahern

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    “A fair is held in sweet Glin town At the dawning of each year On the first of dark December When Christmas times are near...”

    CBÉS 0480

    John Mulvihill, Kathleen Lynch

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    “Paddy dear you're welcome here from Cappamore so gay Yourself and Jim the stones to break in Blain so near Athea...”

    CBÉS 0480

    Joan Lynch, John Histon

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