School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór (roll number 1685)
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0357, Page 259
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“In olden times it was the custom in the south of Ireland that no one was to ask anything or receive it from May-eve till the following day....”
(continued from previous page)by witch-craft be believed to be getting it all the year round and farmers used to stay up that night to keep watch on their barns and cattle.On one occasion a farmer told his boy to watch his milch cows and gave him a blackthorn stick and directed him to use it lavishly on any intruder during the night. Now being uneasy in his mind he went to the barn to see if his boy was asleep. He entered as noiselessly as possible but the boy heard the noise and got behind the door. The farmer entered but did not remember any more for some weeks after as the boy obeyed the instructions given to use the blackthorn on every intruder.
- Collector
- Michael John Stapleton
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Stapleton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork