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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).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Spirits and gods
- Ethnogeography
- Traditional history
- Mythology
- Ethnozoology
- Eschatology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rural Irish
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- British Isles
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Folklorist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 1962
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- County Clare, Munster, Ireland
- NotesAdditional 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
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17028740
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Folklore--Ireland