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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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    “On the shore of Lough_I_Ae there is a rowan tree growing and there's a por of gold anunther it.”

    CBÉS 0161

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    “On May Eve all the old people pulled branches off the rowan tree and hung it over each cows head before sunset, and the old people believed that no butter could be taken from them when that was done.”

    CBÉS 0222

    Miceál Ó Uiginn

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  3. The Rowan Tree

    CBÉS 1093

    Mr John Kee

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    “In a place called Drim in the parish of Culdaff, County Donegal, there was a rowan tree growing about fourty years ago.”

    CBÉS 1115

    John Farren, Susan Farren

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    “There is a very strange looking rowan tree growing a couple of fields away on the same farm near (Grousehall).”

    CBÉS 1122

    Bernard Kearney, Mary Cummins

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