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The Main Manuscript Collection

This collection includes every aspect of the Irish oral tradition. New volumes are added on a regular basis. More information

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  1. (no title)

    “On May day, the pieces of clay which a cow looses from between her hooves are collected...”

    CBÉ 0512

    Lore

    8 Bealtaine 1938

    Batty Ganly

  2. (no title)

    “Years ago children used to stick a furze bush in the ground on May Day and cover it would flowers...”

    CBÉ 0618

    Lore

    8 Feabhra 1939

    Séamus Wade

  3. (no title)

    “In Bargy an Forth when people are at their dinner the kitchen dure is always closed no matter how warm the day may be.”

    CBÉ 0618

    Lore

    26 Aibreán 1939

    Siobhán Bean Uí Bhroin

  4. (no title)

    “On May Day it was usual for some people to stick a branch of quickbeam in fields where crops were planted...”

    CBÉ 0630

    Lore

    1939

    Mrs. Maurice P. Healy

  5. (no title)

    “Mrs. Healy told me that the substance of the person from whose house the first smoke arose on May Day would be carried.”

    CBÉ 0630

    Lore

    4 Bealtaine 1939

    Mrs. Maurice P. Healy

  6. (no title)

    “About the first of December they'd put in the cows and leave um inside night and day until May...”

    CBÉ 0628

    Lore

    6 Meitheamh 1939

    Johnny Hoche