The Schools’ Collection

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

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    About two hundred years ago there was a giant on the top of Cruimlish Hill in the parish of Drung Co Donegal.

    CBÉS 1115

    Mr Jerrimiah Gallagher, Sarah Gallagher

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    I have often heard the following story in this district, about a man named Joe Callaghan.

    CBÉS 1115

    Mr Jerrimiah Gallagher, Sarah Gallagher

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    One Halloween Eve when my granny, Mrs Mc Laughlin, was a grown up girl she housekeeping in a neighbours house.

    CBÉS 1115

    Mr Jerrimiah Gallagher, Sarah Gallagher

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    One night about eighty years ago a man named Billy Doherty and another man named Andrew Callaghan were stilling in Glenagannon and they heard the fairies singing among the bushes nearby and one of the men said "we had better be going" the other man answer

    CBÉS 1115

    Mr Jerrimiah Gallagher, Sarah Gallagher

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    About ninety years ago a woman named Mary Lynch a native of Crainahoran left her home in the morning to go to her friends house and she said that she did not go at all but she was taken some place where she saw big grand houses and palaces but she did not

    CBÉS 1115

    Mr Jerrimiah Gallagher, Sarah Gallagher

    Transcript