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The names of the fields in Mr Dowling's Farm are...


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

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Folklore


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

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A daughter whose father died before she was born...


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

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Lucky and Unlucky


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

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Mrs Maggie Dunne of Back Road Allenwood...


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

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Fionn Mac Cumhaill threw a stone from the Hill of Allen and it landed on the Curragh.


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

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Put horseshoe under hay when a hen is hatching.


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

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If you burn an alder...


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

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To see the new moon for the first time through glass is unlucky.


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

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If you break a mirror you'll have 7 years bad luck.


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

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If you threw salt in the fire you'd have bad luck for seven years.


Story collected by a student at Allenwood, Robertstown school (Allenwood, Co. Kildare) (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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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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