School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)

Location:
Killinaboy, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Donncha Ó Céilleachair

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 294

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You should not look at an animal with one eye shut, if you do the animal will be taken by the fairies. When a person is admiring anything especially an animal, he should say “God bless it” or if he does not the owner should say it. If two people wash their hands in the same water they will fight. When one is combing his hair you should not take the comb until he is finished if you do you will get a headache. If you see the plough star the first night of the new year you will have good luck for the year.


Collected by: - Mícheál Ó Níalláin, Coad
Told by: - Anthony Neylon Coad (his father)
(52 years)

Collector
Mícheál Ó Níalláin
Gender
male
Address
Coad, Co. Clare
Informant
Anthony Neylon
Relation
parent
Gender
male
Age
52
Address
Coad, Co. Clare
Language
English

When a person sees the new moon he should show a penny to it and should turn it three times in his pocket and bless himself. If the day is wet when a corpse is being buried it is a sign that the person is happy. It is said “Blessed is the corpse the rain falls on.”


Collected by: - Seosamh Mac Giolla Coisgle, Coad.
Told by: - John Costello, Coad (his father)
(58 years)