School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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- Some children are born with a covering over their faces which is called a cawl, which is then removed by the doctor or nurse. If it is left it is supposed that it will save the person who is born with it in sickness or in drowning if worn around the neck. An instance of it happened around here.
Once a man named Jim Sullivan from Ardea was in the crew of a trammel boat. They were hauling the trammel nets in Sneem Harbour and it was a very rough morning and a wave came and the rest were drowned because he was wearing the cawl.
- Collector
- Mary Shea
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Patrick Shea
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
