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

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  1. Local Fairy Stories

    CBÉS 0107

    John Joseph Cruise

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  2. Local Fairy Stories

    “There is the remains of an old house in Mr James Waldron's land, Devlis, Ballyhaunis, and in this house there lived a very old woman that used to change herself into a hare and suck the milk of the cows in the fields near her and the people thought it ver”

    CBÉS 0107

    Mrs Cronin, Stephen Hunt

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  3. Local Fairy Stories

    CBÉS 0107

    Michael Finn

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  4. Local Piseogs

    CBÉS 0107

    Michael O' Connell

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  5. Local Piseogs

    CBÉS 0107

    Austin O' Boyle

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    “About fifty years ago thee lived a man named Michael Henry in the townland of Gurteen with his wife Cathrine.”

    CBÉS 0107

    Michael Finn

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  7. Local Fairs

    CBÉS 0107

    John Joseph Cruise

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  8. Local Cures

    CBÉS 0107

    Stephen Hunt

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  9. Local Cures

    CBÉS 0107

    John Joseph Cruise, Thomas Lyons

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  10. Local Cures

    CBÉS 0107

    Michael Finn

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  11. Local Cures

    CBÉS 0107

    Cyril Coyne

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  12. Local Forges

    CBÉS 0107

    Cyril Coyne

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  13. Local Ghost Stories

    CBÉS 0107

    John Joe Carroll

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    “In our farm at Gurteen, consists of ten fields, namely Plant Garden, a red horse has been seen there.”

    CBÉS 0107

    Michael Finn

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  15. The Old Graveyards

    CBÉS 0107

    Cyril Coyne, Mr M Waldron

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  16. Local Marriage Customs

    CBÉS 0107

    John Joseph Cruise

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  17. Churning

    CBÉS 0107

    Patrick O' Brien

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  18. St Patrick's Well

    CBÉS 0107

    Paddy O' Brien

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  19. Local Fairy Stories

    “One night as a man was coming from town, walking, at about half past eleven, he was saw a light at Devlis.”

    CBÉS 0107

    Mrs Cronin, Stephen Hunt

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  20. Local Fairy Stories

    “There is an old man living in Coogue in the parish of Knock who was very fond of cardplaying.”

    CBÉS 0107

    Mrs Cronin, Stephen Hunt

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