School: Béal Dearg (roll number 11582)
- Location:
- Béal Deirg Mór, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Conghamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0139, Page 231
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- (continued from previous page)the borrower until needed by somebody else. It is "not right" to return them without being asked for them.Even though they are thus always moving about from house to house they still remain the property of the original owner. When a person needs them he goes to the owner who tells him to whom he lent them: this person directs the inquirer further and so on until they are eventually tracked down.It is worthy of note that they invariably cure the swollen cow who may be swollen for days until she gets the drink of the SaigeadhsBualadh Saigead is the name of the disease that attacks the cows. They are supposed to kill the cow by sickness and so carry her away to fairyland.When a person is struck he or she picks up the stones and preserves them and they are used for cures later on.
That the stones fall or are thrown there is scarcely any doubt and it is possible they are meteorites for any stones having the imprint of a "thumb," that is, roughly(continues on next page)
