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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. Cromwell in Drogheda

    “These are true stories I am going to tell you about. It happened in the time of Oliver Cromwell,...”

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  2. Cromwell in Drogheda

    “One of Cromwell's Officers were found about thirty years ago in Father Nulty's fields on Cromwell's Mount.”

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  3. Cromwell in Drogheda

    “The night of the Big Wind about fifty years ago people were going round the Barracks.”

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  4. Cromwell in Drogheda

    “An Officer of Cromwell's army was killed in Mary's St.”

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  5. Cromwell in Drogheda

    “When Cromwell was getting the horses from Pepper of Ballygart, one of Cromwell's Officers was killed there.”

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  6. Cromwell in Drogheda

    “When Cromwell was coming the Colpe road he went into a house called Weathertides.”

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  7. Cromwell in Drogheda

    “About fifty years ago three men put a (belt) bet of ten Shillings to a man that he would not cross Mary's Church Wall....”

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  8. (no title)

    “My mother and Cacaí Walsh and the old people about used to tell me this story.”

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  9. (no title)

    “This is a true story, this Fairy tale happened at Beamore Co. Meath, in the Parish of St. Marys Drogheda, I have seen the woman.”

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  10. Hidden Treasure

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  11. (no title)

    “This is a true story which occurred in the Penal Days.”

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

    Beamore Road, Co. Louth

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    “I heard my Mother, The Lord of mercy on her, She told me when I was about ten year old.”

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  13. Slane Castle

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  14. A Bean Sí

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  15. A Ghost Story

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  16. The Red House

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    Matthew Reilly, Thomas Reilly

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  17. Colmcille's Cross

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  18. Lalaway the Ghost

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  19. (no title)

    “This is a true story it happened about three miles from Kells on the Kells road.”

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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  20. (no title)

    “This is a true story. It happened to a man, now is dead.”

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    Mary Meehan, Matthew Reilly

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