The Schools’ Collection

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

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  1. Stories

    CBÉS 0899

    John Cleary, Maureen Cleary

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    Two young men went to a dance one night.

    CBÉS 0899

    John Cleary, Maureen Cleary

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    A crowd of young men went to hunt one day, and it was getting dark when they went to an old castle to dig for a badger.

    CBÉS 0899

    John Cleary, Maureen Cleary

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    There is an old graveyard on Mr Byrne's land (Doonooney Adamstown, Co Wexford).

    CBÉS 0899

    John Lacey, Maureen Cleary

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    There was a wake held in an old house one time.

    CBÉS 0899

    Maureen Cleary, Michael Casey

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    Well you asked me for a story; here is one.

    CBÉS 0899

    John Cleary, Maureen Cleary

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    I am going to tell you a story about some cowards, who went to dig for money in the castle (Traceystown, Taghmon, Co Wexford).

    CBÉS 0899

    Mary Casey, Maureen Cleary

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    Ould Jim Cullen and his wife were goin' to town one day and when they were goin' down the hill of Brownstown...

    CBÉS 0899

    Maureen Cleary, Mrs Ann Cleary

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    Jim Colfer always called his wife "The Madam".

    CBÉS 0899

    Maureen Cleary, Mrs Ann Cleary, Mrs Mary Casey

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    There was a poor man with a wife and family.

    CBÉS 0899

    Jim Cooper, Maureen Cleary

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    There was an old woman living in Newbawn and she had a son in Kilbarney and he come home to her one day and says he...

    CBÉS 0899

    Maureen Cleary, Mrs Ann Cleary

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    Mesef an' yer father was goin' up the lane wan night a past the ould kiln.

    CBÉS 0899

    John Power, Maureen Cleary

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    I was goin up the lane wan night wid the dog.

    CBÉS 0899

    John Cleary, Maureen Cleary

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  14. '98 Stories

    CBÉS 0899

    John Cleary, Maureen Cleary

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    Some time before the Battle of Horetown, in the year of seventeen hundred and ninety eight, there was a young insurgent, who wanted to get a horse.

    CBÉS 0899

    John Cleary, Maureen Cleary

    Horetown, Co. Wexford

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    There was an ould woman and her crippled son living alone in Laegawn, Clongeen, Co Wexford where Mr Roche now lives.

    CBÉS 0899

    Maureen Cleary, Mrs Ann Cleary

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