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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. (no title)

    “Cad a théigheann suad nuair a thagann an fhearthainn síos.”

    CBÉS 0318

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  2. An Tríú Lá is Fiche de Mheitheamh

    CBÉS 0318

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  3. (no title)

    “Tá tobar naomhtha eile i n-aice Tighe Molaga.”

    CBÉS 0318

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    “Long ago on May morning the people used to get up very early and race to the well to see who would get there first.”

    CBÉS 0318

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    “Long ago when the old people used to be going to town they used to carry their shoes tied around their necks and then before they used reach town they used reach a few houses together and they used sit down near them and out them on.”

    CBÉS 0318

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    “Long ago there was a great snow one night.”

    CBÉS 0318

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  7. (no title)

    “Mr Jones, the landlord, lived near Ballinscarthy.”

    CBÉS 0318

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    CBÉS 0318

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    “Lá amháin bhí an t-Athair Ó Dálaigh ag dul siar bóthar Gráinsighe agus do bhuail sé le Séamus Ó Colmáin.”

    CBÉS 0318

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    “When sea-weed or 'weeds' was the only manure used on the land it was always watched for for fear it would come unknown to them.”

    CBÉS 0318

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  11. Place Names

    CBÉS 0318

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    “Major Longfield of Butlerstown was the first in the parish of Barryroe to have a motorcar.”

    CBÉS 0318

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    “Flax was grown up to twenty years ago in the townland of Grange and Lehina.”

    CBÉS 0318

    James Moloney

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  14. (no title)

    “My grandfather Patrick madden of Lehina, has an old spinning-wheel.”

    CBÉS 0318

    James Madden

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    “Bhí Easbog i gClanna Caoilte ar a glaodhadh Mr Ronaldson.”

    CBÉS 0318

    Seán de Faoit

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    “My grandmmother (Mrs Hodnett) who lives in Ardfield has a spinning-wheel.”

    CBÉS 0318

    Séamus de Faoit

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    “Champions (potatoes) were brought to the district surrounding Clonakilty about 50 years ago.”

    CBÉS 0318

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  18. (no title)

    “There was a house north of Willie Sullivan;s in Lehina that belonged to Séamus Grás.”

    CBÉS 0318

    Pádraig Ó Maidín

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    “There is a house in Ballinglanna which has the old method for blowing the fire.”

    CBÉS 0318

    Seán de Faoit

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    “The cottages in Ardgehane were built in 1902, the same year as Whelton's house in Donomore.”

    CBÉS 0318

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