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A folklore survey of County Clare
Folk-Lore • 21 • Published In 1912 • Pages: HRAF pagination: 180-271 [original: Vol. 21, 180-199, 338-349, 476-487 ; Vol. 22, 203-213, 332-341, 449-456 ; Vol. 23, 88-94, 204-215]
By: Westropp, Thomas J. (Thomas Johnson).
Abstract
This is a representative compilation by a folklorist of the oral traditions of County Clare. Themes include the origins of place names and legends of places, banshees, the Death Coach, fairies and fairy forts and mounds, assorted spirits and ghosts, supernatural animals, spectral lands and cities, lucky and unlucky deeds, omens, dreams and divination, wells and well customs, calendar customs, patterns and religious rites, religious objects and their legends, animal and plant superstitions, rocks, caves and stones, earthworks and buildings, and miscellanea.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2016
- Region
- Europe
- Sub Region
- British Isles
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Folklorist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 1962
- Field Date
- no date given
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- County Clare, Munster, Ireland
- Notes
- Thomas J. Westropp
- Since this folklore survey is scattered though the pages of three separate volumes of Folklore without any particular page order, this source has been repaginated consecutively by the analyst, for the convenience of the researcher.
- Includes bibliogrphical references
- LCCN
- 17028740
- LCSH
- Folklore--Ireland