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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. Sketch of a Castóir

    CBÉS 0310

    Mr William Shorten

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  2. (no title)

    “For lighting purposes they used a splinter of fir ("ver") ("bog-wood")...”

    CBÉS 0310

    Mr Patrick Warren, Mr William Shorten

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  3. Ainmneacha Áiteann

    CBÉS 0310

    B. Seártain, Mr Patrick Fehilly, Mr William Hurley, Mr William Shorten, Mrs Ellen Hurley

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    “My grandmother used to tell this. She has two uncles and they had a boat, a "sloop" she used to call it...”

    CBÉS 0310

    Mr William Shorten

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  5. (no title)

    “Men from Clonakilty were out fishing one night she used to tell. They caught a strange sort of fish the like of which they never saw before...”

    CBÉS 0310

    Mr William Shorten

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    “I often heard Dinny Dan's mother God rest her, tell this story. When she was a young girl at home a neighbour of hers, a young married woman got sick...”

    CBÉS 0310

    Mr William Shorten

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    “When she was young, a cousin of hers - his name was Dave Barry - had a fine mare that he thought a lot about...”

    CBÉS 0310

    Mr William Shorten

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  8. Piseoga

    CBÉS 0310

    Mr Daniel Hurley, Mr John Regan, Mr William Shorten, Mrs William Shorten

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  9. (no title)

    “Píobaire na Gruaige" was a dancing master who used to travel around here about sixty years ago...”

    CBÉS 0310

    Mr William Shorten

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  10. Hedge-Schools

    CBÉS 0310

    Mr William Shorten

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  11. Mass Rock

    CBÉS 0310

    Mr William Shorten

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  12. Leigheasanna

    CBÉS 0310

    Mr William Shorten

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    “The incident described above happened long before the Fenians...”

    CBÉS 0310

    Mr William Shorten

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  14. Mallachta etc

    CBÉS 0311

    Mr William Shorten

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  15. (no title)

    “Some people used to steal butter from their neighbours by means of piseogs.”

    CBÉS 0311

    Mr William Shorten

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    “There was a priest in Inis Léin long ago, seventy or eighty years ago, and he has a few cows.”

    CBÉS 0311

    Mr William Shorten

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    “when my grandmother was young her people at one time couldn't make any butter.”

    CBÉS 0311

    Mr William Shorten

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  18. Days - Lucky and Unlucky

    CBÉS 0311

    Mr William Shorten

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    “The walls were of stone and white earth mortar”

    CBÉS 0311

    Mr William Shorten

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  20. Old Customs - Funerals etc

    CBÉS 0311

    Mr William Shorten

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