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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. Old Houses

    CBÉS 0153

    Mr John Lynn, Sarah Gallagher

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    “It is said that the fairies were very common in Ireland long ago but no one ever sees one now. Not very long ago fairies were heard in Ballysaggart some miles from Killybegs.”

    CBÉS 1039

    Mrs Gallagher, Sarah Gallagher

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  3. Hidden Treasures

    CBÉS 1039

    Mrs P. Gallagher, Sarah Gallagher

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    “There is an old house in Fintra outside of Killybegs and it is said that it belonged to the danes of long ago. It is believed that one day a man was cleaning the windows and that his brother, who was watching him, threw a large board at him and knocked hi”

    CBÉS 1039

    Mrs C. Gallagher, Sarah Gallagher

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  5. A Gentle Place

    CBÉS 1039

    Mrs P. Gallagher, Sarah Gallagher

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  6. Funny Stories

    CBÉS 1114

    Sarah Gallagher

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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

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