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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0965, Page 139

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    She house would start making the crosses. When they would have a lot of crosses made, they would put two or three of them in the house up in the ceiling or over the door. There they would put one in every old out-house they had. They believed that nothing bad could enter the house that those crosses are in.
    In many he uses in this place the people. Before night would leave and a laurel on a bush and leave it out the whole night and next morning when they would bring it in it was blessed and if anyone in the neighbourhood was sick it was the custom for them to go from one house to another for this laurel and it was preserved and kept while it lasted.
    Received from John Dolan
    Tullynacross
    Rose Ann McGovern
    Tullynacross
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Feast of St Brigid (~366)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rose Anne Mc Govern
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tullynacross, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    John Dolan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tullynacross, Co. Cavan