National Folklore Collection. Photographic Collection

Scraw turf drying at roadside.

Oral literature.

Landscape.

National Folklore Collection. Photographic Collection

Wedding day, 5 September 1911.

Oral literature.

Marriage Bride and groom.

Some children collecting items for use in the bonfire.

Branding iron.

Traveller’s tent.

Sheep have superseded cattle in importance in the island’s economy since the mid-nineteenth century. The numbers currently allowed to graze on the commonage are restricted under the Rural Environment Protection Scheme.

Marriage Bride and strawboy.

A section of the seven-mile-long dry stone wall commissioned by the Congested Districts Board that separates the commonage from arable land.

Tyres being wheeled to a local bonfire.

Three women and a child. Granny - Great Grandmother Nanny - Grandmother Mary - Mother Erin - Daughter (18 months).

Irish class.

Houses in Stonefield.

National Folklore Collection. Photographic Collection

Bride and strawboys.

Oral Literature.

Strawboys.

National Folklore Collection. Photographic Collection

O'Connor and Delaney, travellers.