White spots on the nails...


Story collected by Marcella Ennis, a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) from informant Mr Pat Cleary.

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Story


Story collected by a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) (no informant identified).

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Festivals


Story collected by Mary F. Kennedy, a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) (no informant identified).

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There is a rhyme about the days of the week.


Story collected by Patrick Dowling, a student at Allenwood school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) from informant an unidentified informant.

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Clothes


Story collected by a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) (no informant identified).

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The tailors long ago worked in their own houses...


Story collected by a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) (no informant identified).

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St Peter and Our Lord were walking through the fields.


Story collected by Peter Ennis, a student at Allenwood school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) from informant Patrick Cleary.

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A Catholic girl was working in a Protestant house.


Story collected by a student at Allenwood school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) (no informant identified).

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To make blast ointment get some grounsel and marsh mallows and a plant called 'the blast herb'.


Story collected by Ellen Connolly, a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) from informant Patrick Lyons.

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A threepenny bit is called a kid's eye.


Story collected by a student at Allenwood school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) (no informant identified).

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Festivals


Story collected by a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) from informant Eileen Connelly.

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The first thing that is cooked in a new saucepan...


Story collected by N. Connelly, a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) from informant Margaret Lyons.

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There is a large dent in the wall of our house.


Story collected by a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) (no informant identified).

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If anyone knits or stitches on Sunday...


Story collected by a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) (no informant identified).

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There used to be a bonfire in Mr Quinn's field on the 29th of July.


Story collected by Ellen Connelly, a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) from informant Margaret Lyons.

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A red-haired woman is unlucky...


Story collected by Marcella Ennis, a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) from informant Mr Pat Cleary.

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There is a field in Mr Thornton's in Ballyteague called the 'Fuarnán field'.


Story collected by a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) (no informant identified).

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There used to be a fair in Kilmeague.


Story collected by Marcella Ennis, a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) from informant Mr Pat Cleary.

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There was a great faction fight in Littletown between Ballyteague and Allenwood.


Story collected by Marcella Ennis, a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) from informant Mr Pat Cleary.

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A man named Thomas Farrell kept a hedge-school in Ballyteague.


Story collected by Marcella Ennis, a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) from informant Mr Pat Cleary.

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The bonfire in Ballyteague...


Story collected by Marcella Ennis, a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) from informant Mr Pat Cleary.

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The parish priest in Allen during the mission in 1886 was Fr. O'Farrell.


Story collected by Marcella Ennis, a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) from informant Mr Pat Cleary.

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Allenwood


A collection of folklore and local history stories from Allenwood (school) (Allenwood, Co. Kildare), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Seán Ó Clúmháin.

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Allenwood, Robertstown


A collection of folklore and local history stories from Allenwood, Robertstown (school) (Allenwood, Co. Kildare), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Seán Ó Clúmháin.

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