The Schools’ Collection

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

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  1. Na Páirceanna Atá Againn

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  2. Focail Ghaeilge a Chualas sa Bhaile

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  3. Story

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    There is a blessed well in Moyrhee about two miles from Tubber school.

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    St. Brigid's Eve is on the 31st January every year.

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    Near where I live there is a blessed well called Tubbereendoney.

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  7. The Banshee

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    About one hundred years ago the farmers around here used to sow a lot of wheat.

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    Long ago the people of Ireland had different food from what they have now.

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    When the hay is cut in the Summer time the sheep are put in to fatten in the after-grass.

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    The other night my father told me a funny story about a man who lived in Conolly in the West of Clare.

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    There is a lake in Bunnahow.

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    The old people had a cure for a burn on the face.

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    If a horse's breast got skinned from a bad collar the old people had a cure for it.

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    Once there was a giant living in a cave near the Burren mountains.

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    There was a man living in this part of the country long ago who used to make his living by making whips and selling them at the markets at Gort and Ennis.

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    Fidane castle is about a quarter of a mile from our house.

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    There is a graveyard called Teampall na Deirce in this parish.

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