School: Gortnessy (roll number 7235)
- Location:
- Gortinessy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. Nic Sheáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 366
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- There are no crosses in this district but there is a stone in the shape of a chair it is called St Brigid’s chair [sic] There is a story about a boy who was lost for three days. It was supposed that the fairies had taken him and he was found sitting in St Brigid’s chair on the shores of Lough Derg. Holly is hung up in the house at Christmas. There are May flowers put on the window sill on May day to bring luck. People wear palm on Palm Sunday. Some people go to certain wells for luck or to cure their disease if they are ill. They leave a piece of cloth at the well and tie it to a bush. There is a well of this kind in Cullion but people have not been to it for a very long time.
- Collector
- Ernest Crawford
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cullion, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr B. Crawford
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Cullion, Co. Donegal
