The Schools’ Collection

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

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  1. (no title)

    The country-side teems with old stories, ...

    CBÉS 0564

    Miss H. Noonan, Mr J. Maher

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  2. Charles Kickham - Knocknagow

    CBÉS 0564

    Miss H. Noonan

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  3. Ballinard

    CBÉS 0564

    Mr James Maher

    Baile an Aird, Co. Thiobraid Árann

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  4. Gort na Pise

    CBÉS 0564

    Gort na Pise, Co. Thiobraid Árann

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  5. Tracy's Boreen

    CBÉS 0564

    Miss Noonan

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  6. Cloneen Graveyard

    CBÉS 0564

    Miss H. Noonan, Mr James Maher

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  7. Sliabh na mBan

    CBÉS 0564

    Miss H. Noonan

    Sliabh na mBan, Co. Thiobraid Árann

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    One night my mother and Ned Meara, ...

    CBÉS 0564

    Mrs Stanley, Robert Stanley

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    One winters night a farmer was returning home from the town of Thurles...

    CBÉS 0564

    Mr Stanley, Robert Stanley

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    Some months ago a man in the district of Moyglass told a very queerr story. ...

    CBÉS 0564

    Terence O Donnell

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  11. Cows - Disease

    CBÉS 0564

    Patrick Kennedy, Robert Stanley

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  12. The Name on Cows

    CBÉS 0564

    John O' Brien, Robert Stanley, Thomas Millett

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  13. The Hare Sucking the Cow in St Johnstown, Fethard

    CBÉS 0564

    Edmund Brophy, John Hayden

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  14. Piseogs about Cows and Milk

    CBÉS 0564

    Miss H. Noonan

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    There is another story about a man who had twenty cows. ...

    CBÉS 0564

    Michael Meagher

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  16. Food for Cows

    CBÉS 0564

    Patrick Kennedy

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  17. Food for Cows

    When cows are in they are fed with crushed oats...

    CBÉS 0564

    Willie O Dwyer

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  18. Food for Cows

    In the beginning of winter we give our cows cabbage and beet tops and hay. ...

    CBÉS 0564

    James Costigan

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  19. Food for Cows

    We give the cows a half shovel of meal and a half shovel of cotton cake...

    CBÉS 0564

    John Brophy

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    When driving the cows in or out of a field you say "how How", ...

    CBÉS 0564

    Maureen Pastill

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