School: Kilnaleck (B.)
- Location:
- Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Máirtín
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- (continued from previous page)People do not lend anything out of the house on May Day.
Long ago when matches were not so common dealers on their may to Arva fair were often refused a light for their pipes on that day in the country houses. - If there are feathers from water birds in the pillows which support a dying person's head it is not right to allow him to die without removing the pillows - the person will not die contented while his head is supported by such pillows.
- Informant
- Mr John Boylan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Tonylion, Co. Cavan