School: An Daingean, Cuinche
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Clare
- Teachers: Stiofán Mac Clúin Treasa Ní Chonmara
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when making butter.
Cow-dung was put in the mouth of a calf immediately after birth to protect from the fairies.
A red cord was tied on to children women also to animals like calves and cows to protect them from the fairies.
When a person dug new potatoes for the first time or made a churn for the first time that year he always divided with his neighbours.The vessel was always brought back having some salt in it.
On November Eve a young girl who was anxious to marry use take a sheet to the river and the first young man who came along to help to draw the sheet against the current was supposed to be her future husband.
A wish was sure to come true if expressed on seeing the new moon for the first time.Collected by the teachers and pupils of Dangan NSchool,Quin, Co Clare.
