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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. Kilmacahill

    CBÉS 0861

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  2. Shankill

    CBÉS 0861

    Shankill, Co. Kilkenny

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  3. Kellymount

    CBÉS 0861

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  4. Local Happenings

    CBÉS 0861

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  5. Hidden Treasures

    CBÉS 0861

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  6. Cures

    CBÉS 0861

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  7. Riddles

    CBÉS 0861

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  8. Flagmount

    CBÉS 0861

    Gretta Drennan

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  9. Mountruthe

    CBÉS 0861

    Gretta Drennan

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    “In Mountruthe House there was one room which could not be opened because there was a spirit in it, in the form of a cat.”

    CBÉS 0861

    Brigid Walsh, Mr Walsh

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  11. Story

    “Once upon a time there was a crowd of men working in a field near Mr. Brennan's Ballyvalden.”

    CBÉS 0861

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  12. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0861

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  13. Severe Weather

    CBÉS 0861

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  14. Story

    “It is said that the monks in Graiguenamanagh and the monks in Leighlinbridge had a horse trained to carry messages from one monastry to another.”

    CBÉS 0861

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  15. Story

    “Once upon a time there was a man who used to dream that if he went to London Bridge he would get his fortune, so at last he went to London and walked up and down the bridge every day for three days.”

    CBÉS 0861

    Peg Doran

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  16. The Lucky Bush

    CBÉS 0861

    Christine Brennan

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  17. Ghost Story

    CBÉS 0861

    C. Brennan

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  18. Story

    “There was once an old man in Goresbridge named James Murphy, and one day as he was mowing with a scythe in a field a lady appeared.....”

    CBÉS 0861

    C. Brennan

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  19. Story

    “One night when grandfather was asleep in his bed, he heard a voice calling him, and it told him that the Minister's wife, Mrs. Beecher of Co. Carlow was dying.”

    CBÉS 0861

    C. Brennan

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  20. Ghost Story

    CBÉS 0861

    Anne Glennon

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