School: Drumshanbo (roll number 16846)
- Location:
- Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Cathal Ó Buadhacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0220, Page 314
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- The following are a list of customs observed in this locality.
1. When a corpse is in a house the ashes or any other sweeping are not thrown out and the wag-o'-the wall is stopped.
2. On May morning no one wants to be the first to put up smoke or to go to the spring well.
3. When a woman is leaving a baby alone in a house she puts the tongs across the cradle for fear the fairies would take the child and leave a "die annagh" in its When a child is always crying and not thriving it is supposed to be a "die-annagh" that was left in the place of a good child.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rita Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Breanrisk, Co. Longford
