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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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    “About one hundred years ago there was a smith who lived in Golands and manufactured iron and steel into a lot of articles.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Nora Mac Shane, Peter Mc Shane

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    “The society known as the Molly's Men sprung from an incident in a remote district.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Nora Mac Shane, Peter Mc Shane

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    “Long ago when the milk was churned there was no butter.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Nora Mac Shane, Peter Mc Shane

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    “I am an old gunman, Just aged thirty four.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Nora Mac Shane, Peter Mc Shane

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    “One day Fionn Mac Cumhaill went in search of the King's daughter.”

    CBÉS 1031

    John Gallagher, Nora Mac Shane

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    “Once upon a tiem there were three men living in a house.”

    CBÉS 1031

    John Gallagher, Nora Mac Shane

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    “At one time there was a great ice on Louch h-Iasg and also all over the county.”

    CBÉS 1031

    John Gallagher, Nora Mac Shane

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    “There was a school at John McGroary's house of Tullynaha in the year, 1821.”

    CBÉS 1031

    John Gallagher, Nora Mac Shane

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    “About the time of Penal Laws there was mass served on Jon Kelly's hill of Ardbane.”

    CBÉS 1031

    John Gallagher, Nora Mac Shane

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    “There is a townland named Meenaulderg got its name because of a park that there was blood spilled in the time of the trouble.”

    CBÉS 1031

    John Gallagher, Nora Mac Shane

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    “There are certain kinds of weeds that destroy the crops such as the red-shanks the chicken weed the bruskin and spirry.”

    CBÉS 1031

    John Gallagher, Nora Mac Shane

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    “Long ago it was all oat bread that was eaten.”

    CBÉS 1031

    John Gallagher, Nora Mac Shane

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