School: Baile an Chaisleáin

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   ... rafters or the beams of the 'loft' which was the name given to the second floor of the house. The spiders made their webs over the balls and so kept the moths from eating the thread. That is very likely the reason why the old people said one should never kill a spider.
   Time By The Sun
   Not long ago a great many people could tell the time by the sun. Watches and clocks were not very plentiful years ago and people knew the time by the position of the shadows. In the morning the sun's rays fell on a certain mark on the floor or wall, and the shadow of the chimney on some place outside showed midday. In the evening the shadow of the chimney on some part of the roof told the old people the time.
   An old woman in Kilaingil was called Peig na Corcán because she had a broken pot with three legs on top of a stick in the haggard. She could tell the time very correctly from the way the sun made shadows with the broken edges of the pot. The shadows thrown by the legs of the pot also helped her to get the time.
   First Cock-Crow
   was after midnight and no one should leave the house before that time as the fairies were out until cock crow.
   Second Cock-Crow
   was about 4 a.m. and that was the time for the farmers to get up and get ready for the fair. When the cows rise up in the stall it is about 5 a.m.

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   History Edit

   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Collector

   Máire Ní Ríogán

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Killangal, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Diarmuid Ó Ríogán

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Killangal, Co. Cork