Dúchas website adds Irish schools folklore collection

The National Folklore Collection of Ireland's Dúchas website (www.duchas.ie) has added about 80% of its school records holdings from counties Dublin, Donegal, Mayo and Waterford, about 64,000 items in total, and comprising of a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s.

It's a real gem, with some interesting holdings - one school child from Raphoe in County Donegal, for example, recalls how his granny used to describe the "stiffy lifting" or theft of corpses from graves in the local cemetery for medical students to experiment on.

To access the records, indexed by school and location, visit http://duchas.ie/en/cbes.

Don't forget to come up for air!

(NB: Note that some of the material presented is written in Irish)

(With thanks to Audrey Wyper)

Chris

Now available for UK research is the new second edition of the best selling Tracing Your Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians, whilst my new book British and Irish Newspapers is also now out. And FindmyPast - please reinstate the original Scottish census citations on your new site.