School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)
- Location:
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gobnait de Búit
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0197, Page 288
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- Superstitions Louis Irwin from his faher Frank Irwin 67 who had it from his father mother.
Old people in Ireland thought it was very unlucky to cut a tree on a fort - they thought it belonged to the fairies. They also said it was bad to touch a tree growing by itself in the middle of a field. An old man raised the hatchet to cut a branch off one of these trees. He thought a voice said "Don't do that! Don't do that"! and he didn't.
- Collector
- Louis Irwin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Frank Irwin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
