School: Loch Measca
- Location:
- Caherrobert, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire, Bean an Bhrúnaigh
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- It is said that if a cow-house is built where there was a corpse buried cows will very soon die in it.
It is also said that if the fairies pass by where the cowshed is, at night, cows won't be prosperous.
People say that the dirt in the cow-houses should never be thrown out at night, and that it should never be put out on a Monday. They say the fairies do their washing on a Monday and that is the reason the dirt is not put out on that day fearing it might be on their clothes it would be flung.
When people are building a cow-house they should never take the stones from a fort, because the fairies will follow their stones trying to get them back, and they give neither peace nor luck to the people who take them away.- Collector
- Peggy Lynagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killour, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Tommy Lynagh
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Killour, Co. Mayo