School: Ahane (C.) Lisnagry (roll number 563)
- Location:
- Áthán, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: L. T. Walsh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0524, Page 032
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- Old Customs
1) Old people believed, that if they left water in which they washed their feet in at night, it had power to let the fairies in. If they were in bed, and the water in the house they would get out of bed and throw it out, for they said that they could not sleep.
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- Collector
- Brigid Conway
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile na Cúirte, Co. Luimnigh
- Informant
- Mrs Conway
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile na Cúirte, Co. Luimnigh
