School: Dernakesh (B)
- Location:
- Doire na Ceise, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: T. Ó Comhraidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 399
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If any brute beast is born in Whit Sunday or Whit Monday it will kill some thing before that day twelve month. When it is born some people puts a useless thing in with it that it may kill it and then it would kill nothing.
Anything given birth to on a Whit Sunday should be left under a sod for a few minutes. Charles McCann had a cow calved on Whit Sunday and did not put the calf under a sod and kept it to be a cow. When it was three years old it struck a mare with its horns. The mare died shortly after.
- In Charles McQuaid's fort there is a deep hollow where there is a giant buried.
There is also a long flat stone and the people say that there is a crock of gold buried under this stone. It is believed that anybody who tried to lift the stone they would fall dead.
One time the fairies had a path from James Reilly's fort of Gallonreagh to Patrick Reilly's(continues on next page) - Collector
- James Daniels
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lios Dubha, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Peter Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Lorgain Bhuí, Co. an Chabháin
