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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.
Subjects
Spirits and gods
Ethnogeography
Traditional history
Mythology
Ethnozoology
Eschatology
culture
Rural Irish
HRAF PubDate
2016
Region
Europe
Sub Region
British Isles
Document Type
article
Evaluation
Folklorist-4,5
Analyst
John Beierle; 1962
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