The Schools’ Collection

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

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  1. May Eve Customs

    CBÉS 0402

    Patrick Holly, Teresa Holly

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  2. A Local Happening

    CBÉS 0402

    Patrick Holly, Teresa Holly

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  3. Story

    CBÉS 0402

    Patrick Holly, Teresa Holly

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  4. Food in Olden Times

    CBÉS 0402

    Teresa Holly

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  5. Local Place Names

    CBÉS 0402

    Patrick Holly, Teresa Holly

    Aghanagran Upper, Co. Kerry

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  6. Fairy Forts

    CBÉS 0402

    Patrick Holly, Teresa Holly

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  7. Stories - Folklore

    CBÉS 0403

    Mr Denis Holly, William Holly

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    Strange things happen in some places and sometimes things of great importance.

    CBÉS 0403

    Paddy Pierce, William Holly

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  9. (no title)

    One morning William Collins was going to a fair in Listowel

    CBÉS 0403

    Mr William Collins, William Holly

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  10. (no title)

    A young man was returning home one night and he saw a football match in the field beside the road.

    CBÉS 0403

    Dan Mc Grath, Thomas Holly

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  11. (no title)

    A few years ago in one of the principal colleges of Ireland there was a very holy priest.

    CBÉS 0403

    Thomas Holly, William Collins

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  12. Local Cures

    CBÉS 0403

    Thomas Egan, William Holly

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  13. Local Heroes

    CBÉS 0403

    Paddy Pierce, William Holly

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  14. The Local Forge

    CBÉS 0403

    Paddy Murphy, William Holly

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  15. Travelling Folk

    CBÉS 0403

    Dan Mc Grath, William Holly

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  16. My Home District

    I live in the townland of Tarmons in the Parish of Tarbert and in the barony of Iraghticonnor.

    CBÉS 0403

    Tom Egan, William Holly

    Tarmon West, Co. Kerry

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  17. Local Marriage Customs

    CBÉS 0403

    Paddy Pierce, Willaim Holly

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  18. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0403

    John Woods, William Holly

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  19. Fairy Forts

    CBÉS 0403

    John Sheehan, William Holly

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  20. Fairy Forts

    There are ten forts in the school district.

    CBÉS 0403

    John Holly, Michael Mulvihill

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