School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)
- Location:
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Gharaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 139
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- I questioned Ed. Dornigan on the following heads : -
and the replies follow : -His father told him one of their fields was dug three times the same year for the chance of a remaining potato for food.
- The residents beside Clooncarn fort had no fear of the "Good People" These "Good People" used tap on their doors and disappear. The tap was a sure sign that a cow was about to calve and the owner at once got to his feet and was not disappointed.
- When one in the townland was dying the wail was heard as of several unseen criers usually between 11 and 12 pm. Clooncolligan and Aughnamona (upper Bornacoola) were quite accustomed to it then but not of late years. He himself once heard this wail.
- Sugar was part of the Christmas feast but people did not know the right uses for it as there was no tea etc. After Christmas it was left up behind a rafter and the melting sugar could be seen streaming down the walls
- A bog only grows an inch every 100 yrs. He came on a "Kesh" under a bog hole(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Gharaidh
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Edward Dorrigan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Bellageeher, Co. Leitrim
