School: Dún Mór (cailíní)
- Location:
- Dunmore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlín Halliday
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0037, Page 0069
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“Turf mould got into the eye of Mrs Burke (deceased) Knockroe, Dunmore, Co. Galway and she visited an old man who lived in Claddagh, Tuam, who was known to set charms for sicknesses and complaints of various kinds.”
(continued from previous page)done to keep fairies away while others said it was a safeguard against people taking away butter from her milk.
In olden times people would never dream of cutting a lone bush. Some said these belonged to the fairies while others held that they used to shelter wandering spirits. People would not stand under these lone bushes at night because they felt they would be standing in the way of the spirits. About fifteen years ago a man named Thomas Concannon, Carnagur, Dunmore, Co. Galway cut branches off one of these lone bushes. He was but a young man about forty years of age and very soon after he fell ill and died. The people in the locality said that his interference with the lone bush was the cause of his death.
Long ago people used to get into communication with the devil by running round a stack of oats seven time at midnight, then they used to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Ailledéa
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Dunmore, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs M. Halliday
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 34
- Occupation
- Merchant's wife
- Address
- Dunmore, Co. Galway