School: Drumgownagh
- Location:
- Droim Gamhnach, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Dominic Ó Huiginn
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- (continued from previous page)New Year's Day.
If anything comes to a person on New Year's Day he should keep it, also, if a person wears anything new on New Year's Day he will be getting new clothes all the year round.
People say that an animal arriving at Whitsentide will not be lucky unless it is put under the ground.
Itis not right to go to a house for milk or butter on New Year's Day.
People in this district believe in planting some early potatoes on Good Friday.
- Ireland is dotted over with cromlechs and other monuments which remind us of bygone days.
In Annaghmore in a field belonging to John Colreavy, there is a cromlech, two standing stones and another large one resting on the two. It is the local belief that it was used as a druid's altar or Gráinne's bed.
In a garden belonging to Jimmy McKenna, Lear, there is another(continues on next page) - Collector
- Bríghid Ní Bhuadhacháin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Droim Gamhnach, Co. Liatroma
- Informant
- Mrs Doonan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Eanach Mór, Co. Liatroma
