School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)

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

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 295

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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)

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)

Collector
Mícheál Ó Cuillináin
Gender
male
Address
Rinnamona, Co. Clare
Informant
Michael O' Donoghue
Gender
male
Age
89
Address
Rinnamona, Co. Clare
Language
English