The Schools’ Collection

This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s. More information

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  1. Funeral Customs

    CBÉS 0507

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    Tá aithne agam ar chailín áirithe a posadh le déidheannaighe - anuiridh a posadh í.

    CBÉS 0507

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  3. Funeral Customs etc

    CBÉS 0507

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  4. Radalach

    CBÉS 0507

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    A Oisín, is binn liom do bhéal ag innsint scéil.

    CBÉS 0507

    Labhrás O Airtneada

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    You must never carry a spade or fork or other such implement, on your shoulder, into or out of the house.

    CBÉS 0507

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    This day, Tim Hederman of Manisteranaonough, angler, fowler, observer of nature, voracious reader and constant supplier to me of any folklore which cine within his ken, brought me in a live specimen of the Great Peacock moth (Saturnia pyre).

    CBÉS 0507

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    Drum Asail, now generally known locally as Tory Hill, rises rather abruptly from the plain of Coshma.

    CBÉS 0507

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    In the parish of Banoge, couth of and adjoining Croom, of which until 1861 it was a part, there is in the extreme south, a hill called Cnocán an Chroidhe (so definitely phonetically written in the Croom marriage register for 1808-1818).

    CBÉS 0507

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    If you have a scald in your foot induced from an exceptionally long walk, you can cur it by putting on it the leaf of the cuckle-root.

    CBÉS 0507

    Jerry English

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    Cuckle-Root = great burdock

    CBÉS 0507

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    There is healing in the leaf of comfrey.

    CBÉS 0507

    Dick Butler

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    Slánlus grows in meadows ...

    CBÉS 0507

    J. English

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    Last night at 10 0 clock ("old time"), the sky-line from the southwest to northwest was wonderfully beautiful and bright, in bands of colour, scarlet, deep rose, pink, white and darkening into light green and sea-blue.

    CBÉS 0507

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    They say that if you make a garter of eel-skin and wear it that it will banish cramp from the leg.

    CBÉS 0507

    Denis Lyons

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    Talking about weasels reminds me of a thing that happened me in Lyonses one day.

    CBÉS 0507

    Ed Hogan

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  17. Sconce

    CBÉS 0507

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    A cock whose usefulness in the fowl-run has come to an end, must not be killed.

    CBÉS 0507

    Micheál O Domhnaill

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    When the fowl get a certain disease, I'm not sure is it the "piuc" or what you call the glúnach, a way to put a stop to its ravages was to bury alive one of the worst-affected fowls.

    CBÉS 0507

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    Goat-flesh, if not a rarety was not an uncommon variety of food even as late as thirty years ago.

    CBÉS 0507

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