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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. Homemade Ointment - An Old Cure for Piles and Pimples

    CBÉS 0711

    Miss Bridget Flood, Mrs Thomas Brien

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    “The skin of a raw potato was known as a cure for a burn.”

    CBÉS 0711

    Patrick Lynn

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  3. Remedy for Earache

    CBÉS 0711

    Michael Mc Guinness

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  4. Cure for Rheumatism

    CBÉS 0711

    John Sheridan

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    “There is an old well in Wilkinstown bog called Emlagh Well.”

    CBÉS 0711

    John Sheridan

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    “One of the fields in the townland of Demailestown is called 'Raheen'.”

    CBÉS 0711

    Mrs James Doggett

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    “There is a bog hill near Wilkinstown called 'Balsaw Hill'.”

    CBÉS 0711

    Michael Gaynor

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    “One of the fields in Cohiltown is called the 'Fire Tree Field'...”

    CBÉS 0711

    Thomas Duffy

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  9. Irish Words Used in the District

    CBÉS 0711

    M. Farrelly

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  10. Old Cures

    CBÉS 0711

    Mrs Fleming, Teresa Fleming

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  11. Old Cures

    CBÉS 0711

    Ena Finegan, Mrs Finegan

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  12. Old Cures

    CBÉS 0711

    Kathleen Lynn, Mrs Lynn

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  13. Old Cures

    CBÉS 0711

    Mrs Katie Sheridan, Nancy Sheridan, Tomna Duffy

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  14. Old Cures

    CBÉS 0711

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  15. Old Cures

    CBÉS 0711

    James Doggett, Peter Doggett

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  16. Old Cures

    CBÉS 0711

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  17. Customs at Wakes and Funerals

    CBÉS 0711

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  18. Various Beliefs and Superstitions of the District

    CBÉS 0711

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  19. Story of the Rack Field

    CBÉS 0711

    James Finegan, Kathleen Lynn

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  20. The Bishop's Field

    CBÉS 0711

    Dolours Sheridan, Laurence Crahan

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