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Story collected by a student at Moys school (Moy Otra, Co. Monaghan) (no informant identified).

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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 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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If you look under your right foot you will find a white hair...


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

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I always heard during mu boyhood that there was a terrible massacre of nuns at the Old Abbey, Balyinglass long ago...


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

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Miss Margaret Dwyer, Ballymount told me that mant years ago she heard music probably fairy music...


Story collected by James Humphreys, a student at Ballymount school (Ballymount, Co. Kildare) from informant Miss Margaret Dwyer.

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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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Sean-Nósanna


Story collected by a student at Attymass G school (Attymass, Co. Mayo) (no informant identified).

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