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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. Pisreoga

    CBÉS 0507

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  2. Pisreoga

    CBÉS 0507

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  3. A Ghost Story

    CBÉS 0507

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  4. How the Site of Askeaton Abbey was Discovered

    CBÉS 0507

    Sd. O Connell

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    “There are some people and they have luck about them.”

    CBÉS 0507

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    “There are some farms and the bull that is kept on them is bound to be a rogue.”

    CBÉS 0507

    John O Donnell

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    “Didn't you ever know that tisn't right to be swinging a stick through the grass in front of you and you crossing a field.”

    CBÉS 0507

    Tim Hedderman

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  8. The Shee-Geeha

    CBÉS 0507

    Paddy Casey

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  9. The Shee-Geeha

    CBÉS 0507

    John Garry

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  10. The Shee-Geeha

    CBÉS 0507

    M. K.

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    “In some part, II or III, of this collection of Béaloideas I gave as a placename, or perhaps more definitely, as a field name: Attybreesa, and ventured an explanation.”

    CBÉS 0507

    P. Casey

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    “My mother used to bring home the turf (from the boy under the hill) in hampers.”

    CBÉS 0507

    P. Casey

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  13. Boherabassee

    CBÉS 0507

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    “There were orchards everywhere around the hill (Drom Asail).”

    CBÉS 0507

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    “In telling you nothing but what's the truth I have it from old Paddy.”

    CBÉS 0507

    P. Casey

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    “They tell of a man who, mowing or reaping, I don't now recall which, when the "Shee Geehe" swept past him through the hay or the wheat, drew his scythe through the "blast".”

    CBÉS 0507

    Michael O Donnell

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    “Brackaun = ? Breacán, the name by which the long, narrow, paddle-oared boat used by the fishermen on the Abbey River in Limerick city is known.”

    CBÉS 0507

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    “Bogadh ¶ Glugair. The name of a plant which occurs generally in poor meadows and indeed generally in this district.”

    CBÉS 0507

    Rev J. Wall

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    “There is no doubt about it but the music was heard in that Fort.”

    CBÉS 0507

    Joseph O Riordan

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    “There is a man named Rourke living near the same fort and he was after building a new cow shed.”

    CBÉS 0507

    Joseph O Riordan

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