School: Eanach Dubh (B.) (roll number 13656)

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1. Folklore - Emblems and Objects of Value (continued)

   

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   fowl and with the blood they make the sign of the cross with the blood they make the sign of the cross in the four corners of the house, to keep away diseases. There is a well in a field belonging to Bernard Shanley, Fearnaught, Dromod, and if a person diseased with warts washes the affected parts in it, they disappear. This tale was told to me by Bernard Toole, Corrick, Dromod, Co Leitrim

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2. Folklore - Historical Tradition

   

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   The famine of 1846 + 1847 caused much distress in this district and in every place throughout the country.

   There was a family named Reynolds living in the townland of Carrick. They survived the famine but after it fever set in, and they became victims of

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