School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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- 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)
- 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) - Collector
- Seán Pelcington
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leamaneh North, Co. Clare
- Informant
- George Pelcington
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Leamaneh North, Co. Clare
- 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)
