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.
  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.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seán Pelcington
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Leamaneh North, Co. Clare
    Informant
    George Pelcington
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    52
    Address
    Leamaneh North, Co. Clare
  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.