School: Ballycumber
- Location:
- Ballycumber South, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: David Moore
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- Here are some superstitions in connection with raths. It is believed that if you cut a bush or a 'sceac' in a rath some misfortune will befall you. If you bury an animal in one of them some ill luck will follow. If you build a house on a fairy pass between two raths, the house will be knocked down. Here is a story that was told to me by a person who lives in this locality. A man required fence to fence a ditch and he noticed a 'sceac' growing on a ditch in a rath which would suit. When he was cutting the 'sceac' a partion of it hit his eye depriving him of the sigh of his eye.
- Collector
- Brigid O' Toole
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballycumber South, Co. Wicklow
