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

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    “About one hundred and fifty years ago a wolf had his den in Letternacaugh, (the adjoining townland).”

    CBÉS 1031

    Edward Kerrs, John Kerrs

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    “The cure for the Ringworm is to boil a mouse's flesh and rub it on the spot.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Edward Kerrs, John Kerrs

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    “It is not lucky to set potatoes before the 25th of March and it is not right to look in the glass on Whit Sunday or to leave to go to another country on June 30th.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Edward Kerrs, John Kerrs

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    “There is a Fairy Fort in Tullynagrena about one and a half-mile from Ardbane.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Edward Kerrs, John Kerrs

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    “There was a shop in Anne Thomas's of Golands 40 years ago.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Edward Kerrs, John Kerrs

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    “The houses in olden times were all thatched.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Edward Kerrs, John Kerrs

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    “Once upon a time a woman began to churn one day.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Edward Kerrs, John Kerrs

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    “There was a house built by night in Tullynagrena.”

    CBÉS 1031

    Edward Kerrs, John Kerrs

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