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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. Weather-Lore - Signs of Rain

    CBÉS 0928

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  2. Signs of Fine Weather

    CBÉS 0928

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  3. Old Schools

    CBÉS 0928

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  4. Penal Times

    CBÉS 0928

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  5. Penal Days

    CBÉS 0928

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  6. Old Graveyards

    CBÉS 0928

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  7. Local Fairs

    CBÉS 0928

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  8. (no title)

    “There is a large estate named Woodstock said to have been given to the ancestors of the present owners (Tottenham) by Cromwell.”

    CBÉS 0928

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  9. Fairy Lore

    CBÉS 0928

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  10. Local Cures

    CBÉS 0928

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  11. (no title)

    “Up to the year 1890 there was a race held every year in Kilcool.”

    CBÉS 0928

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  12. Shipwrecks

    CBÉS 0928

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  13. (no title)

    “Where Kilcool Station is now was once a lovely green. The Sea was at least a mile farther out.”

    CBÉS 0928

    Mrs Doyle

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  14. (no title)

    “There is a very old house near the Sea, on the sea-road which was once owned by family names Stokes.”

    CBÉS 0928

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  15. (no title)

    “On the Sea-road nearer to the village are the ruins of an old mill.”

    CBÉS 0928

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  16. (no title)

    “There is a house on the Sea Road now called "Avon House" which is built of bricks made near the lime kiln in Ballydonera...”

    CBÉS 0928

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  17. (no title)

    “There is another old house owned by Mr. Grey, he belongs to an old family...”

    CBÉS 0928

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  18. (no title)

    “At the end of Garretts field near the village there is an old hollow and every night a band of fairies used to come and dance and sing this.”

    CBÉS 0928

    Mrs Garrett

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  19. (no title)

    “In Grey's field (Sea Road) there was a spring well. One day a priest was going past he was very thirsty.”

    CBÉS 0928

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  20. (no title)

    “Near Leabeg on the road to Newcastle. There is a field and in the corner of this field there is a group of palm trees.”

    CBÉS 0928

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