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   'God bless the new-moon!
   God bless me!
   God made the new-moon
   God made me".

   If they chance to have any money in their pockets, they take it out and hold it in the palm of the hands for a minute or two.
   Cualadh na piseoga seo ó na sean-daoine i bparóiste Baile na gCleíreach.

   Gearóid O Céileacair (Oide scoile)

   

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2. Piseoga

   

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   Dermot Mac Murrogh ploughed up the Yellow River, Ballinaglera when he was eloping with O'Rourke's wife. It is said that they went as far as Sliabh an Iarainn Mts., and that they rested at a stream which is called today, "Sruain Uí Ruairc". There was a man named Major O'Hara in the old dispensary, Drumristan, Ballinaglera, who fought with King James' Army in the Battle of the Boyne.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
         1. folk belief (~2,535)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kate Earley

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cortober, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Michael Forde

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Feirmeoir

   Address

   Aughrim, Co. Leitrim