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Summary
This record preserves the held Dúchas catalogue page for the Ára Mhór school’s Schools’ Collection in County Donegal. It documents a publicly catalogued body of Irish-language folklore and local-history material from the island associated with a major Beaver Island migration tradition.
Its value here is contextual and methodological: it identifies an origin-island collection that can guide future language, song, and folklore research. It is not evidence that any individual item crossed the Atlantic, that Beaver Island preserved a particular text or practice, or that a specific migrant attended the school or supplied a collection entry.
Evidence and limits
The held capture lists the school and its catalogue scope, including 100 titled entries. It is not a complete transcription or reading of every manuscript page, and the project’s search found no Beaver Island content in it. Any claim of transmission between an Árainn Mhór entry and an island recording, family song, or modern performance requires item-level comparison, fluent-language review, and separate provenance.
See also
Sources
- Held catalogue/page capture identifies the Ára Mhór school, County Donegal location, Antoine Mac Suibhne as teacher, volume 1060, and a catalogue of 100 titled entries. The embedded entry metadata identifies Irish-language material such as riddles, stories, proverbs, prayers, local-history topics, and songs. It is a catalogue/context record; it contains no Beaver Island content in the project’s full-text search.web · duchas_cbes_1060_arainn_mhor
- Project provenance sidecar for the Dúchas Ára Mhór Schools’ Collection capture, retrieved 2 August 2026.Records the source URL, retrieval time, checksum, rights note, and verified negative result for Beaver Island full-text content. The page itself links its open-data material under CC BY-NC 4.0, while this project’s held page capture retains its stated research-citation handling. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.web · duchas_cbes_1060_arainn_mhor.provenance
Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Dúchas Árainn Mhór Schools’ Collection catalogue record”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/duchas-arainn-mhor-schools-collection/, accessed [date], citing Dúchas.ie, “Ára Mhór,” Schools’ Collection, volume 1060, accessed 2 August 2026. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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