School: Béal Átha Fhinghín (B.)
- Location:
- Ballineen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Beircheart Seártan
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- (continued from previous page)The cow is then milked and the vessel containing the beestings is swung above the fire, nine times anti - clockwise, while the same prayer is repeated.Long ago one would send a jug of beestings to the house of a labouring man. The woman of the house would say "Cabhair Dé Cughainn!" Emptying the jug, she would wash it, and putting a pinch of salt in it would hand it to the messenger saying God increase ye!"Long ago when setting eggs to hatch people used to put crosses on each egg with a piece of charred stickIt is mislucky to leave part of a ridge in a potato garden , without setting or part of a cornfield without seed. The old people said a "Síol dearmadh" brought bad luck to the person responsible
- Informant
- Mr Daniel Hurley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromfeagh, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr John Regan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballineen, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs William Shorten
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Informant
- Mr William Shorten
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shanagh, Co. Cork
