School: Creatlach (B.)
- Location:
- Cratloe, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seán Breathnach
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- St Martins Day falls on the eleventh of November each year. In this locality it is a custom that a fowl should be killed such as a hen or a chicken or a goose and the blood sprinkled in the four corners of the house.
Another custom is to sprinkle some of the blood on a piece of cloth an keep it this is a cure for a head-ache.
The cloth is used by tying it across the persons head who has the pain. It is also a custom that no mll wheel should turn on that day because St Martin was killed in a mill. A strange story is told about a Dutch-man who had an oil-mill in Bally-Liddane in the land of Dr Roche Kelly.
The Dutch-man's name was Peace and one St Martin's eve when the working men were(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Gleeson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Brickhill East, Co. Clare
