Local old people say that a tailor is only the ninth pat of a man, from being always hunched up on his table...

Story collected by a student at Cnoc Cairn, Imleach Iubhair school (Knockcarron, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).

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The Fitzgeralds of Knockcarron, my own ancestors, were nicknamed the "Gleidire's"...

Story collected by a student at Cnoc Cairn, Imleach Iubhair school (Knockcarron, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).

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An reference to unpopular leaders in our Irish history draws the following comment from the old people locally...

Story collected by a student at Cnoc Cairn, Imleach Iubhair school (Knockcarron, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).

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Faction fights are discontinued in this part of the country for nearly fights years...

Story collected by a student at Cnoc Cairn, Imleach Iubhair school (Knockcarron, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).

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Cnoc Cairn, Imleach Iubhair

A collection of folklore and local history stories from Cnoc Cairn, Imleach Iubhair (school) (Knockcarron, Co. Limerick), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Tomás Ó Dúthaigh.

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In former times when a pig was killed, the bodalach was kept and hung on the hob...

Story collected by a student at Cnoc Cairn, Imleach Iubhair school (Knockcarron, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).

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