School: Cnocán Mhichíl Naofa (Clochar)
- Location:
- Claremorris, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0098, Page 269
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)unlucky to throw out ashes or sweeping the floor or to give out anything, but wanted to get all in on New Years Day also. On St. Martins Night if they killed any fowl. They sprinkled blood on every corner of the house, they thought that this was a lucky omen. On November's night the young girls used to hang a head of cabbage behind the door and the first boy that would come in, his name would be your husbands name. On November's night also they would bring out a mirror and put it over a pond or a stream. When the moon would be shining and as many moons they saw reflecting on the water that is the number of years they would live.
- Collector
- Delia Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Claremorris, Co. Mayo
