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This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s. More information

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  1. My Home District

    CBÉS 0774

    Marcella Ennis

    Grangeclare West, Co. Kildare

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  2. Houses

    CBÉS 0774

    Marcella Ennis, Patrick Cleary

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  3. The Leprechaun

    CBÉS 0774

    Marcella Ennis, Patrick Cleary

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  4. The Penal Days

    CBÉS 0774

    Marcella Ennis

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  5. Place Names

    CBÉS 0774

    Marcella Ennis, Patrick Cleary

    Allenwood, Co. Kildare

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  6. Roads

    CBÉS 0774

    Marcella Ennis

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    “Long ago the Ballyteague people used to come across the fields to Mass.”

    CBÉS 0774

    Marcella Ennis, Patrick Cleary

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    “There was a hedge-school long ago in Ballyteague in a field now owned by Keenan's Ballyteague.”

    CBÉS 0774

    Marcella Ennis, Patrick Cleary

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  9. Weather

    CBÉS 0774

    Marcella Ennis, P. Cleary

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  10. Travelling People

    CBÉS 0774

    Marcella Ennis, P. Cleary

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    “Every night the hens talk about going to Denmark the next day. and the next morning something always stops them from going.”

    CBÉS 0774

    Marcella Ennis

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  12. Proverbs

    CBÉS 0774

    Marcella Ennis, Mr Pat Cleary

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    “When a young couple would get married...”

    CBÉS 0775

    Marcella Ennis, Pat Cleary

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    “A man one day was cutting down a lone bush for fencing on his farm in Grangeclare West...”

    CBÉS 0775

    Marcella Ennis, Pat Cleary

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  15. Story

    CBÉS 0775

    Marcella Ennis, Pat Cleary

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    “The parish priest in Allen during the mission in 1886 was Fr. O'Farrell.”

    CBÉS 0775

    Marcella Ennis, Mr Pat Cleary

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    “The bonfire in Ballyteague...”

    CBÉS 0775

    Marcella Ennis, Mr Pat Cleary

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    “A red-haired woman is unlucky...”

    CBÉS 0775

    Marcella Ennis, Mr Pat Cleary

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    “There was a great faction fight in Littletown between Ballyteague and Allenwood.”

    CBÉS 0775

    Marcella Ennis, Mr Pat Cleary

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    “There used to be a fair in Kilmeague.”

    CBÉS 0775

    Marcella Ennis, Mr Pat Cleary

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