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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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    “In the same house there lived a girl. One day she went out behind the house to pick flowers.”

    CBÉS 0916

    Paddy Doyle, Thomas Doyle

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    “This man who was named Cardiff, lived in Ballyhook. That was about eighty years ago.”

    CBÉS 0916

    Bridie Powell, Mrs Powell

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    “Once a man was coming home from a card-party. He passed by Ballinure grave-yard on his way home.”

    CBÉS 0916

    Bridie Powell, Mrs Powell

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    “There was a man a long time ago coming up along the creamery road one night about twelve o clock.”

    CBÉS 0916

    Tom Norton

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    “One night a man by the name of Jack White was coming home from Dunlavin and he met a man who was playing cards by himself...”

    CBÉS 0916

    John Cullen, Sheila Nolan

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    “Some centuries ago a man by the name of Fitzgerald was taken by the fairies and at the end of every seven years he rides on a horse which is shod with silver shoes.”

    CBÉS 0916

    John Cullen, Sheila Nolan

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    “A man and his wife were taking a short cut across the fields and they saw a little man tumbling in the nettles and the man caught him...”

    CBÉS 0916

    John Cullen, Sheila Nolan

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    “One day Mr Norton, Knockarig was working in a house and a boy that was working there told him not to sleep in the house but Mr Norton said he would.”

    CBÉS 0916

    Michael Moore, Mr Michael Moore

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    “When we came to live in Grange Con at first, we heard that this house was haunted.”

    CBÉS 0916

    Sheila Courtney

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    “There were a parish Priest and Curate who lived in Dunlavin. One of the Priests got a sick call one night and the Curate went.”

    CBÉS 0916

    Mrs Sleator, Noel Sleator

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