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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. The Old Houses of Ardfield

    CBÉS 0317

    John O Keeffe, Mary O Keeffe

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  2. Old Time Markets

    CBÉS 0317

    John O' Keeffe, Mary O' Keeffe

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  3. Spinning Wheels

    CBÉS 0317

    John O' Keeffe, Mary O' Keeffe

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  4. Treasures in Hiding

    CBÉS 0317

    John O' Keeffe, Mary O' Keeffe

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  5. Burial Places of Unbaptised Children

    CBÉS 0317

    John O' Keeffe, Mary O' Keeffe

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  6. Saint Patrick

    CBÉS 0326

    John O' Keeffe

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  7. Tobar na Croí

    CBÉS 0355

    Eugene Fitzgerald, John O' Keeffe

    Urraghilmore West, Co. Cork

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  8. The Potato Crop

    CBÉS 0359

    John O' Keeffe

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  9. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0372

    John O' Keeffe, Michael Saunders

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  10. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0372

    John O' Keeffe, Patrick Saunders

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    “Kate Aylward known as the "Brown Filly" danced for a wager on Fiddown bridge from after eight o' clock Mass until six o' clock Angelus bell.”

    CBÉS 0566

    John O' Keeffe, Mr O' Keeffe

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  12. Tomhais

    “There's a lovely maid in the garden, as fresh as the flowers in morning.”

    CBÉS 0566

    John O' Keeffe, Mrs Kennedy

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  13. Tomhais

    CBÉS 0566

    John O' Keeffe, Mrs Meehan

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  14. Tomhais

    CBÉS 0566

    John O' Keeffe, Mrs Comerford

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    “At the back of the Green Island near Freigh Castle about half a mile from the mainland there is a large high rock called Leac an Aifrinn...”

    CBÉS 0622

    John O' Keeffe, Michael O' Keeffe

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  16. Shipwrecks

    CBÉS 0622

    John O' Keeffe, Martin Shanahan

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  17. Cill Stuifín

    CBÉS 0622

    John O' Keeffe, Martin Shanahan

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    “One night as I sat by the fire my brother asked my father would he tell a story.”

    CBÉS 0797

    John O' Keeffe

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