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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. Local Ruins - Castletown Castle

    CBÉS 0047

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  2. Fort in Castletown

    CBÉS 0047

    Colman Lally

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  3. Another Fort (A Cathair) in Castletown

    CBÉS 0047

    Patrick Mullaney

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  4. Castletown

    CBÉS 0065

    Kathleen Egan

    Castletown, Co. Mayo

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  5. Fenton of Castletown and Jordan

    CBÉS 0167

    Mike Tiernan, Seosamh Ó Catháin

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  6. (no title)

    “Long ago there lived a man in Glencar called Páidin Ó Laidhe and his son Sean, adjacent to the townland then called Five Pound Land, now called Castletown.”

    CBÉS 0189

    Martin Devaney, Teresa Mac Ternan

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  7. (no title)

    “At the time Father Devine was in in this parish he has a brother at Castletown...”

    CBÉS 0274

    Donnchadh Ó Súilleabháin

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  8. Fairy Stories

    “Another night a man was coming home from Castletown”

    CBÉS 0276

    Hannah Kelly, Mrs Julia Kelly

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  9. Old Forges

    “There is a forge on the side of the road going to Kenmare from Castletown.”

    CBÉS 0276

    Dick Donovan, Mrs Donovan

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  10. (no title)

    “Tadhg was one Sunday going to Castletown Mass...”

    CBÉS 0310

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  11. (no title)

    “There is a tower in Castletown Kinneigh Co Cork known as Kinneigh Round Tower.”

    CBÉS 0312

    Jean Nagle, Miss Bryan

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    “A Protestant school was in existence about 200 years ago near where the present Catholic Church in Castletown roche now stands.”

    CBÉS 0371

    James Regan

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  13. Old Castletown

    CBÉS 0376

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  14. (no title)

    “Years ago a woman who returned from America took rooms in Miss O'Brien's of Castletown.”

    CBÉS 0462

    Mrs Julia O' Shea, Rita O' Shea

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  15. (no title)

    “About eighty years ago or more a woman - one Mrs Shea of Ardgroom Castletown Bere, Co. Cork was married there...”

    CBÉS 0464

    Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin, Mrs O' Sullivan

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    “One night this same labouring man was going to Castletown Bere fair withe his Master as was their want...”

    CBÉS 0464

    Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin, Jeremiah O' Sullivan

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  17. Castletown Abbey

    CBÉS 0497

    P. O Riordan

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  18. (no title)

    “Waller of Castletown-Waller, used give a feast to his tenants on the lawn.”

    CBÉS 0507

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  19. (no title)

    “Lord Roche was a nobleman who lived at Old Castletown near Kildorrery at the time that the White Knight lived here.”

    CBÉS 0514

    John Aherne

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  20. Siege of Castletown Doon, Co. Limerick

    CBÉS 0518

    Owen Doherty

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