School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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- It is unlucky to go home from a wake without company. If a person carried a hazel stick at night it would keep away fairies. If you looked at an animal with one eye closed the fairies would take you. If a knife fell it is a sign some man is coming on a visit.
Collected by: - Eamon Ó Níallaín, Roughen.
Told by: - Edward Neylon, Roughan (his father)
(52 years) - Whoever will be first to take a bucket of water out of the well on May morning it is said to be lucky. If a horse died on a man and if he put a red ribbon on the forehead band of the winkers of the next horse he is to have luck with that horse. Collected by: - Seán Pelcington, Lemeneigh
Told by: - George Pelcington, Lemeneigh (his father)
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- Collector
- Mícheál Ó Cuillináin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rinnamona, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Michael O' Donoghue
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 89
- Address
- Rinnamona, Co. Clare