School: Kilmacteige (B.) (roll number 15500)
- Location:
- Kilmacteige, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Cuirnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0173, Page 200
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- (continued from previous page)as a sign that there would be bad luck on their animals that year
- People never cut a bush that stood alone in the old days because it was said to be unlucky A man was once cutting a lone bush and he heard a voice saying "Willie don't cut and you'll have riches and luck." He did not cut and he had the riches and luck.It was believed that it was wrong to disobey any of those pisterógs. A man in this place cut a lone bush defiantly and he got a thorn in his eye from it and was blind in that eye ever afterwards
- Collector
- Andy Curneen
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- P. Spelman
- Address
- Kilmacteige, Co. Sligo
