Gort na Díogha

A collection of folklore and local history stories from Gort na Díogha (school) (Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Séamus Ó Dochartaigh.

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Feile Brígid a Bricín

Story collected by a student at Gort na Díogha school (Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway) from informant Thomas Brennan.

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Funerals

Story collected by a student at Gort na Díogha school (Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway) from informant Thomas Brennan.

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Iron Mill in Creggs

Story collected by a student at Gort na Díogha school (Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway) (no informant identified).

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Crann Soilse

Story collected by a student at Gort na Díogha school (Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway) (no informant identified).

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I saw a man take a spade, go into his garden and take a fist of clay into the house where a corpse was about to be coffined...

Story collected by a student at Gort na Díogha school (Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway) from informant Thomas Hegarty.

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Illness, Death, Funerals Etc.

Story collected by a student at Gort na Díogha school (Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway) from informant Thomas Brennan.

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