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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. The Priest's Well

    CBÉS 1098

    Dan Mc Hugh

    Carrick, Co. Donegal

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    “In the village of Castlefinn Co. Donegal there stands to this present day the ruins of the castle occupied by the O'Donnels.”

    CBÉS 1098

    Cecil Joseph Mc Bride

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  3. Church Minister

    CBÉS 1098

    Edward Connolly

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  4. The Grove

    CBÉS 1098

    Dan Eamonn Mc Hugh

    Castlefinn, Co. Donegal

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  5. St Patrick's Church Donaghmore

    CBÉS 1098

    Castlefinn, Co. Donegal

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  6. Mass in the Penal Days

    CBÉS 1098

    Edward Connolly

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  7. Croaghan Hill

    CBÉS 1098

    Edward Connolly

    Castlefinn, Co. Donegal

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    “In the Parish of Castlefinn some hundreds of years ago two little boys set about to put up a sod Easter house.”

    CBÉS 1098

    Cecil Mc Bride

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  9. An Old Inn

    CBÉS 1098

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    “Once upon a time there happened in a little house was a little house in the heart of country one winter's night, that the people of the house were talking round the fire, a strange thing occurred.”

    CBÉS 1098

    Edward Connoly

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  11. A Mass Rock

    CBÉS 1098

    Dan Mc Hugh

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  12. The Tinker's Rock

    CBÉS 1098

    James A. Holmes

    Castlefinn, Co. Donegal

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  13. Saint Brigid's Well

    CBÉS 1098

    James A. Holmes

    Cormakilly, Co. Donegal

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  14. How Lifford Got Its Name

    CBÉS 1098

    James A. Holmes

    Lifford, Co. Donegal

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    “There was a man once upon a time who lost his arm and it was buried.”

    CBÉS 1098

    Edward Connolly

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  16. There lived an old man and an old woman

    CBÉS 1098

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  17. There lived an old man and an old woman

    CBÉS 1098

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  18. There lived an old man and an old woman

    CBÉS 1098

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  19. There lived an old man and an old woman

    CBÉS 1098

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  20. There lived an old man and an old woman

    CBÉS 1098

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