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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. Kilbrittain Castle

    CBÉS 0314

    John Ahern

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  2. Tigh Molaige

    CBÉS 0314

    John Ahern

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  3. Old Head of Kinsale Lighthouse

    CBÉS 0314

    John Ahern

    Transcript

  4. Hurling - Long Ago

    CBÉS 0322

    Batty Ahern, John Ahern

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  5. Farming Long Ago

    CBÉS 0322

    Batty Ahern, John Ahern

    Transcript

  6. The Famine Times

    CBÉS 0389

    John Ahern, William Walsh

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  7. The Local Forge

    CBÉS 0389

    John Ahern, William Walsh

    Transcript

  8. Games I Play

    CBÉS 0389

    John Ahern, Mr William Walsh

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  9. Religious Stories

    CBÉS 0389

    John Ahern, Mr William Walsh

    Transcript

  10. The Fairies

    CBÉS 0389

    John Ahern, Mr William Walsh

    Transcript

  11. The Local Ruins

    CBÉS 0389

    John Ahern, William Walsh

    Transcript

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    “Roughly speaking it is about 71 years since the night of the rising 1867...”

    CBÉS 0395

    John Ahern, Mrs Wilkison

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  13. (no title)

    “There was once a woman coming back from the other life.”

    CBÉS 0405

    John Ahern, Patrick Shine

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  14. (no title)

    “Páirch na Laogh. It is so called because calves are in it always...”

    CBÉS 0480

    John Ahern, Josephine Culhane, Shiela Ahern, Thomas Culhane

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    “There lived a woman in Dirreen who gave in to piseóga very much...”

    CBÉS 0480

    John Ahern, Shiela Ahern

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    “The cnucán is situated about a mile from my home it resembles a bowl turned upside down...”

    CBÉS 0480

    John Ahern, Shiela Ahern

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  17. (no title)

    “There is another story about the cnucán. A man went ploughing it one day to set wheat in it...”

    CBÉS 0480

    John Ahern, Shiela Ahern

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  18. Local Marriage Customs

    CBÉS 0486

    John Ahern, Mr P. Ahern

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  19. (no title)

    “Beneath the hive the bees are alive with a drop as sweet as honey...”

    CBÉS 0487

    John Ahern, Mary Ahern

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  20. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0487

    John Ahern, Mary Ahern

    Transcript