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“Once upon a time there lived a man in Ballyvaughan who had poteen hidden in a bog.”
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Michael O' Connell
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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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“Long ago a man named Driscoll lived in the parish of Killimer.”
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Michael Culligan
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“There was a man in Labasheeda and he had one son and he was very sick.”
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Martin Walsh
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“Long ago the old people used believe that there was ghosts there nowadays...”
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Peter Paul Moloney
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“One night a man was coming home from a dance and he had to go through two forts.”
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John Walsh
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“Once upon a time a beggar who was very strong came to a house and asked for a pipeful of tobacco and the man of the house said that he would give it to him....”
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Joseph Bonfield
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“Once upon a time there was a tailor who went around from house to house making clothes for the people.”
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John Conway
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“Once upon a time there was a widow living in the side of the road and she had one cow who supplied her with milk.”
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John Conway
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Hidden Treasure
“Once upon a time there was a man that dreamt four nights one after another that there was gold hidden in a fort in Killimer.”
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Michael Culligan
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“Long ago the old people did not like to interfere with black thorn bushes but there was an old man that would not believe in it.”
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Michael Culligan
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“Once upon a time there was an old man living in North Clare.”
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John Walsh
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“When St. Senan was dying in Scattery he left a special favour to a family named Hedderman that whatever request they asked through him would always be granted.”
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John Cunningham
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“There is an old story attached to Knockerra Lake.”
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Martin Walsh
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“There is an old story told about a fort in Burrane.”
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John O' Brien
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“Not far from Cooraclare there is an old fort in a farm belonging to Thomas Collins which was supposed to be haunted by two withered old men.”
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Patrick Crowley
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“Once upon a time there lived a man in the townland of Cassernagh who was very fond of going around the neighbourhood playing cards.”
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Samuel Keane
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“Many years ago in the days of St. Senan there lived near the lake a chieftain named Mac Tail.”
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John Cunningham
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“One day as a man named Madigan was ploughing near Molougha Lake he found a large flag.”
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John Cunningham
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Hidden Treasure
“Once there lived in the west of County Clare a man named Muirisín Fóidre who dreamt that under Welesley Bridge in Limerick was hidden a crock of gold.”
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John Cunningham
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“Long ago people would go to town to get wool carded at Glynn's mill and it was often late when they would come home.”
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Patrick Moloney
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