School: Derryham
- Location:
- Derryhum, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Ó Máirtín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0981, Page 014
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- (1) The fire is not raked that night.
(2) The street should be clean that night.
(3) The door should be locked.
(4) There should be a plate of rice left on the table in the kitchen, if any of the souls were hungry they could eat it.
(5) That nobody should be out of their own house after eleven o clock.
(6) That you ought not throw out water.
(7) That you should not brush out the floor after six o clock.
(8) That anyones mother that is dead she comes to visit the home that night.
(9) Some people tie strings on the cows tails and the would be gone the next morning.
(10) Every one should be in bed after ten o'clock because the fairies are out after that time.
- Collector
- Mary Ellen Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Seefin, Co. Cavan
