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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. (no title)

    “Other fairies, too, live in our local forts, apparently, or did long ago anyhow.”

    CBÉS 0507

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  2. The Girl Who Was Taken Away by the Fairies

    CBÉS 0509

    Elizabeth Reidy, Mrs Neylon

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  3. The Fairies

    CBÉS 0509

    Philomena Ryan

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    “There is a lios near our house it is said to be haunted. The fairies are out around the lios every night.”

    CBÉS 0514

    Hannah Kiely

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    “There was a man on his way to the town one day As he was passing the fort fairies danced round him.”

    CBÉS 0514

    Mary Kate O' Brien

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    “About 65 years ago two girls and a boy of this district were supposed to be "going with the fairies"...”

    CBÉS 0514

    John Aherne

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  7. Fairies

    CBÉS 0514

    Eamon Cleary, Mr John Cleary

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  8. Páirc na Sí - Field of the Fairies

    CBÉS 0517

    William Lavery

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  9. The Fairies

    CBÉS 0517

    M.S. Ó Maoldhomhnaigh, Mary Meaney

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  10. The Fairies

    CBÉS 0517

    Mrs Mac Carthy, Seán Mac Carthaigh

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  11. The Fairies

    CBÉS 0517

    Mícheál Ó h Eadromáin, Mr John Hedderman

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  12. The Fairies

    CBÉS 0517

    Marget Keogh, Padraig Mac Eocada

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  13. The Fairies

    CBÉS 0517

    Micheal Browne

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  14. The Fairies

    CBÉS 0517

    C. Fitzgerald, Jack Collins

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    “It was from a man named John Mahoney I heard the following experiences. He said that a certain man was returning home from a concert and he had to cross some fields. In one of those fields there was a moat in which fairies were supposed to dwell.”

    CBÉS 0518

    John O Connor, Martin Comans

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  16. Girl Taken by Fairies

    CBÉS 0527

    Mrs Michael Sheehan

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  17. Tom McCarthy and the Fairies

    CBÉS 0527

    Maura Byrnes

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  18. Fairies

    CBÉS 0528

    Kathleen O' Connor, Richard Mc Grath

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  19. Fairies of Knocksouna

    CBÉS 0528

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  20. Owen Cronin Wickerworker and the Fairies

    CBÉS 0528

    Kathleen O' Connor

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