School: Cill Laichtín, An Caisleán Nua
- Location:
- Killaghteen, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Nioclás Breathnach
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- Long ago when a cow was after calfing the first thing to be done is to burn off the hair from the cows udder with a blessed candle.
- Informant
- John Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballypierce, Co. Limerick
- Long ago one of the principal Games people had playing football across the country and another game is cross country running.
- It is said that Sean Burns pulled a ton of slate up Barnagh another story is told about him that one day he was in a forge and a man on horse-back asked him to give him a red coal out of the fire. What he done was he put it up on an anvil and lifted it up and put the coal into the(continues on next page)
