378 Reference Sources
mission’s Schools’ Scheme, 1937–8, under which children in 5000 primary
schools in all the 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland collected local folk-
lore under the commission’s direction and guidance. The herbal medicine
material for Co. Cavan was extracted and published by Maloney (1972), and
that for the Aran Islands and Co. Wicklow form the subject of postgraduate
theses by Ó hEithir (1983) and McClafferty (1979), respectively, held in the
college’s Department of Irish Folklore. Ó Súilleabháin (1942) and Vickery
(1995) also published a scatter of items selected from the collection as a
whole at random, and Lucas (1960) drew on it for his monograph on the uses
of gorse. For the purposes of the present study, Mrs Sylvia Reynolds in 1991–2
searched 148 out of the total of 1124 volumes, extracting herbal medicine
data for every county but in different proportions: the larger counties were
covered more fully and Co. Limerick most fully of all. A list of the volumes
searched can be provided by the authors on request. Arising out of that work,
a guide to the plant names and their attendant ambiguities was also produced
(Reynolds 1993) for the benefit of other researchers.
Kermode MS—‘Flora Monensis’ by P. M. C. Kermode, c. 1900—Manx Museum,
Douglas, Isle of Man.
Macpherson MS—Card index of folk remedies compiled in the 1950s by J. Harvey
Macpherson—Folklore Society Archives.
Moore MS—Unpublished report, ‘Botany of the County of Londonderry
1834–5’, produced by David Moore for the Irish Ordnance Survey—herbar-
ium library, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin.
Ó hEithir MS—Undergraduate essay, 1980, ‘The folklore of whooping cough in
Ireland’—Department of Irish Folklore, University College Dublin.
Parson MS—‘Horseheath; some recollections of a Cambridgeshire village’ by
Catherine E. Parson (1952)—Cambridge County Record Office.
Paton MS—Notes by C. I. Paton in interleaved copy of S. A. P. Kermode’s List of
Flowering Plants of the Isle of Man(1900)—British Herbarium, Department
of Botany, Natural History Museum, London.
Taylor MS—‘Magic, witchcraft, charm-cures and customs in East Anglia’ by
Dr Mark R. Taylor (data for a never-published book, collected largely by cor-
respondence, while Regional Medical Officer in Norwich 1920–7)—Norfolk
Record Office, MS 4322, 57x1.
Vickery MSS—Folklore data collected by Roy Vickery, partly by correspon-
dence—in his personal possession.
Williams MS—Data collected in the survey ‘Folk Medicine in Living Memory
in Wales, 1977–89’, carried out by Dr Anne E. Williams for the Welsh Folk
Museum, Cardiff—in her personal possession (to be drawn on for a book to
be published by the University of Wales Press).