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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. Local Traditions of Famine Period

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  2. Names of Landlords

    “Names of landlords, land agents, bailiffs are who signalised themselves and are remembered as "good" or "bad" men.”

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    Brigid Parkinson

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  3. Names of Landlords

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    Brigid Parkinson

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  4. (no title)

    “Synge, the landlord of Slevoyre, often tried cunning methods to dispossess farmers of their holdings.”

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  5. Anything that is Remembered of Plantations in the District

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  6. Faction Fights

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  7. Traditional Sports Centres for Horse-Racing

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  8. Nicknames - Personal and Family

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  9. Sites of Historic Interest, Mass Rocks, Battlefields

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  10. (no title)

    “A very ancient road, supposed to have been used by the monks of Terryglass....”

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  11. Social

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  12. Recollections of Local Hedge-Schools

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  13. (no title)

    “A gentleman residing at Old Court beg an tunnelling operations for the construction of a main drain to his residence.”

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  14. St Augh's Well

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

    Terryglass, Co. Tipperary

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  15. (no title)

    “About the beginning of the eighteenth century a man named Patrick Griffin owned the field....”

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  16. When Was Keening at Funerals Discontinued in the District

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  17. (no title)

    “A priest on a sick call one night had to pass by the churchyard of Terryglass.”

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  18. Belief in Water-Horses, Water-Bulls

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  19. Story

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  20. Thady and the Gold

    CBÉS 0531

    Brigid Lavelle, Brigid Parkinson

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