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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Westropp, Thomas J. (Thomas Johnson),
1860-1922
Title:
A folklore survey of County Clare
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Folk-Lore -- Vol. 21 ; Vol. 22 ; Vol. 23
Published By: Original publisher
Folk-Lore -- Vol. 21 ; Vol. 22 ; Vol. 23
London: Published for the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt.
1910 ; 1911 ; 1912. HRAF pagination: 180-271 p. [original: Vol. 21, 180-199, 338-349,
476-487 ; Vol. 22, 203-213, 332-341, 449-456 ; Vol. 23, 88-94, 204-215]
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Thomas J. Westropp
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2016. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Rural Irish (ER06)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Spirits and gods (776);
Ethnogeography (823);
Traditional history (173);
Mythology (773);
Ethnozoology (825);
Eschatology (775);
Abstract: Brief 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.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
14
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
er06-014
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Journal Article
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliogrphical references 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.
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date given
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Folklorist-4,5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
John Beierle; 1962
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
not specified
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
County Clare, Munster, Ireland
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Folklore--Ireland
