School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)

Location:
Killinaboy, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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  1. It is unlucky to go home from a wake without company. If a person carried a hazel stick at night it would keep away fairies. If you looked at an animal with one eye closed the fairies would take you. If a knife fell it is a sign some man is coming on a visit.

    Collected by: - Eamon Ó Níallaín, Roughen.
    Told by: - Edward Neylon, Roughan (his father)
    (52 years)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eamon Ó Níalláin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Roughan, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Edward Neylon
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    52
    Address
    Roughan, Co. Clare
  2. Whoever will be first to take a bucket of water out of the well on May morning it is said to be lucky. If a horse died on a man and if he put a red ribbon on the forehead band of the winkers of the next horse he is to have luck with that horse.
    Collected by: - Seán Pelcington, Lemeneigh
    Told by: - George Pelcington, Lemeneigh (his father)
    (55 years)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  3. It is not lucky for a woman with a newly born baby to go into a house until she is churched. If a tongs is left across the cradle in which a baby is sleeping nothing will happen the baby.

    Collected by: - Mícheál Ó Cuillináin, Rinamona.
    Told by: - Michael O’Donoghue, Rinnamona.
    (89 years)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.