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This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s. More information

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    “On the slope of a hill near the Beagh River there is a clump of old hawthorn bushes and in the centre of these there is a pile of ...”

    CBÉS 0050

    Mary Frances Regan

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  2. A Song

    “Now as the hawthorn is in blossom,”

    CBÉS 0078

    Edward Nevin

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    “There was a old hawthorn bush in the village of Roundfield...”

    CBÉS 0079

    John Kileen, Julia Coffey

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  4. The Hidden Treasure

    “There is an old recess in Tamplemoyle graveyard out of which grows an old hawthorn bush.”

    CBÉS 0079

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    “Across the lake, opposite the Lake Hill grows a hawthorn bush.”

    CBÉS 0507

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  6. Hawthorn Bushes

    CBÉS 0512

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  7. A Story about Gold that Was Found near a Hawthorn Bush

    CBÉS 0632

    James Foran, Mary Foran

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    “It is bad luck to bring hawthorn into a house.”

    CBÉS 0661

    Bernard Gaughran

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    “The blackbird is black with a yellow beak, lays eggs of a skyblue colour, about four or five, and these eggs are sprinkled with little brown dots and, it builds its nest in a hawthorn bush.”

    CBÉS 0676

    Peggy O' Reilly

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    “They used to dress up a hawthorn bush on May 1st and put it before door.”

    CBÉS 0775

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  11. Local Song

    “The Hawthorn grows, the brook runs by”

    CBÉS 0799

    J. Walsh

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  12. The Legend of the Hawthorn Bush - The White Lady of Bessboro

    CBÉS 0842

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  13. Story

    “Years ago there was an old hawthorn bush growing in the centre of the village of Crosspatrick supposed to be a monument over some persons that were killed or executed there.”

    CBÉS 0869

    William Dollard, William Dollard Senior

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    “There were two men near Tinnerath building a ditch one day. They removed a white Hawthorn that grew in the corner of the field.”

    CBÉS 0882

    John Doyle, Nicholas French

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  15. The Big Hawthorn Bush

    CBÉS 0957

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  16. An Old Hawthorn Tree

    CBÉS 1031

    Ruby Logan

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    “There was an old man living in Monedaragh about fourteen years ago and he cut a stick from a hawthorn tree, supposed to be gentle which was growing outside of his house.”

    CBÉS 1115

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