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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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    “Years ago there was a hore in Simehill cover, that nobody could kill.”

    CBÉS 0054

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  2. The Attempt to Kill a Priest

    CBÉS 0055

    Eileen Mc Cormack, Patrick Mc Cormack

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  3. Kill Wood

    CBÉS 0056

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    “In the townland of Kill is a graveyard not used now.”

    CBÉS 0058

    Patrick Nevin

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    “Delaney from the market bought a fowl a month ago If he meets the man that sold it, he will kill him with a blow...”

    CBÉS 0114

    Annie E. Tully, Mollie Doherty

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    “The meaning of the "Trí lá na Riabhaighe is the month of March trying to kill the old cow.”

    CBÉS 0121

    Pat Rock

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    “People kill something (ie a chicken) to shed blood for St. Martin believeing "he'll take before not after"??”

    CBÉS 0171

    Mrs Matthews

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  8. Inviting Weasels to Kill Rats

    CBÉS 0206

    Francis Earley

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  9. Folk-Tale - Why you Should always Kill the Clock

    CBÉS 0208

    Mary Henry, Seán Ó Céilleachair

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  10. In the Penal Times

    “The priest used to go hiding in in the mountains for fear the soldiers would catch them and kill them.”

    CBÉS 0223

    Lizzie Keaney

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    “Once there lived a rat and a weasel in a bog. The rat thought if he could kill the weasel he would have the whole bog to himself and the weasel thought the same thing...”

    CBÉS 0249

    James Gormley, Lynda Shannon

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    “They used to kill a cow for Christmas. They would have her maybe three months fattening on raw potatoes and cabbage and wheaten straw...”

    CBÉS 0310

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    “If an old person saw a "Dara Daol" which is a long kind of beetle sometimes found under stones they would kill it...”

    CBÉS 0364

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    “There is an old graveyard in Mr. Parker's ground in Ballyrobin called Kill-a bhuláin...”

    CBÉS 0394

    Christy Cuddigan, John Brady

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    “Martin King used kill a fowl every St Martin's night in honour of St Martin.”

    CBÉS 0406

    Eileen Donegan, Joe Shanahan

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  16. (no title)

    “The old people used to believe that if you caught a Leprechaun and pretended to kill or burn hum he would give you a pot of gold.”

    CBÉS 0406

    Kathleen Sullivan, Mrs Sullivan

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    “There was a donkey and he was very old and his Master was going to kill him so he ran away and he met a dog.”

    CBÉS 0435

    Cormac O Connor, Máire Ní Chonchubhair

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  18. Story about Kill them All

    CBÉS 0464

    Eileen Sullivan

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  19. Kill-ultain

    CBÉS 0504

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    “When Ellis was shot at Kill Cross Loughmore...”

    CBÉS 0552

    Michael Fogarthy, Mr A. Long

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