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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. Place Names

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll

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  2. A Marathon Race of 70 Years Ago

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll

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  3. (no title)

    “About twelve months ago I met a man from Grenagh, Co. Cork and in the course of conversation I inquired of him, how he was getting on, to which he replied that he was getting on very well now, but that he had suffered much for the past two or three years,”

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll

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    “Many years ago there lived at Foxe's Bridge, Courtbrack, Co. Cork, a labouring man with his wife and two children who were very young.”

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll, Michael Murphy

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  5. (no title)

    “In the townland of Ballyshonin, Berrings, and adjoining the road from Cork to Kanturk via Barrachaurin, is a rock (amongst many rocks) known as Carrig an Aifrinn.”

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll

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  6. The Vagabond Rock

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll

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  7. (no title)

    “The town-land of Knocknamorrive is in the Berrings district, in the parish of Inniscarra, Co. Cork.”

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll

    Knocknamarriff, Co. Cork

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  8. (no title)

    “In the townland of Ballyanly Berrings, Co. Cork is a lonely portion of a bye road called Kiln Street.”

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll

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  9. The Gneeves

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll

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  10. (no title)

    “Outside the Ardrum Demesne wall, in a field now in the possession of Joseph O' Callaghan, Ballyanly, Inniscarra, Co. Cork, is buried a member of the Colthurst family, which accounts for the fact that the field is known as the The Tomb Field.”

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll

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  11. (no title)

    “Hundreds of years ago a Fr. O' Callaghan Parish Priest of Inniscarra was given a house to live in by the Colthursts who had by now learned to respect priests.”

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll, Eugene Lane

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  12. The Pound Field

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll

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  13. Kilns

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O' Driscoll

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  14. Wells

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll

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  15. The Kerry Road

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll

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  16. The Church at Berrings

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll, Eugene Lane

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  17. Old Schools

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll, Eugene Lane, Patrick Rem

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  18. Houses

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll

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  19. Wells

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll

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  20. Modes of Travel

    CBÉS 0348

    D. O Driscoll, E. Lane

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