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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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    “Many years ago there was a stile going into Rathfarn land by which the people used to go to Mass.”

    CBÉS 0054

    Edward Kenny, Mary Kenny

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  2. Carrowkeel Well

    CBÉS 0054

    Edward Kenny, Mary Kenny

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    “Over a century ago most of the houses of the village of Kilmacragh were on the north side of the road.”

    CBÉS 0054

    Edward Kenny, Mary Kenny

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    “One May morning a man got up early and went to look after his stock”

    CBÉS 0054

    Edward Kenny, Mary Kenny

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    “Some years ago the people were very superstitious , but now these superstitions are dying away, and the people know little about them.”

    CBÉS 0054

    Edward Kenny, Mary Kenny

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    “One upon a time there was a man who did know what fear was.”

    CBÉS 0054

    Edward Kenny, Mary Kenny

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    “A certain man was coming home from a fair in Loughrea.”

    CBÉS 0054

    Mary Kenny

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    “There was a woman one time coming home by the chapel of Leitrim one night.”

    CBÉS 0054

    Edward Kenny, Mary Kenny

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    “There was a fairy bush in Dalyston wood.”

    CBÉS 0054

    Edward Kenny, Mary Kenny

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    “One All Hallowe'en if you put every bit of the rind off a potato and hang it on the latch of the door the first man that comes in will have the same name as he whom you will marry”

    CBÉS 0054

    Edward Kenny, Mary Kenny

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    “If you wash a man's shirt and put it to the fire to dry the woman that he will marry will come to take it.”

    CBÉS 0054

    Michael Hardiman, Pauline Hardiman

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    “To get a snail and put him into an oven and cover with the lid”

    CBÉS 0054

    Michael Hardiman, Pauline Hardiman

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    “There was once a man who lived a few parishes away from here and he had a wife and children.”

    CBÉS 0054

    Teresa Linnane, Thomas Linnane

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    “A few years ago a man named Martin Boyle was coming home from a wake in Ballyargadaun about three o'clock in the morning.”

    CBÉS 0054

    Delia Fahy, Thomas Fahy

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    “Long ago there was a police-man buried near the factory in Leitrim”

    CBÉS 0054

    Edward Kenny, Mary Kenny

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    “One night two boys went to steal apples.”

    CBÉS 0054

    Edward Kenny, Mary Kenny

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    “A large mansion called Pallas is situated south of Tynagh”

    CBÉS 0054

    Anna Maria Rabbitte, Michael Walsh

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    “Once upon a time there was a hare in a mountain that nobody could shoot.”

    CBÉS 0054

    John Fahy

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    “Long ago there lived a man who used to be always picking nuts”

    CBÉS 0054

    Bernard Riordan, Bridie Riordan

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    “Once a man met a woman who asked him would he do here a favour.”

    CBÉS 0054

    Bernard Riordan, Bridie Riordan

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