School: Ballinkillen, Muine Beag
- Location:
- Ballinkillin, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Seán Mac Domhnaill
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- (continued from previous page)all her might against the back-door. The words she use say were:-Fuar demo gurtamock,
than-a- torcais,
Blane-a-nuck,
agus nuck féin.I write these words as they were pronounced for me. The listeners did not have an idea of what the words meant, and the old woman herself didn't know, but said them as she had heard her own mother do. In Irish they were:-Fuair de mo ghort amach
Téigheann an ocras
Bliadhan ó anocht
Agus ó anocht go firínneach
This loaf-throwing was to bring a plentiness to the family for the coming year and the loaf thrown was not used but left for dogs, hens, mice or whatever might eat it to show that food was going to be go fluairseach.
- was a notorious blackguard who lived near the village of Old Leighlin during the time of the Fenian Rising. He was supposed(continues on next page)
