School: An Choill Mhór
- Location:
- Cuilmore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Frainc de Paor
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“If you make a pilgramage to Cruach...”
If you make a pilgrimage to Cruach Patrick three times you will never see hell's fire.
- Collector
- Frainc de Paor
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Martin Kilroy
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 21
- Address
- Lecarrow, Co. Mayo
- If one leads a good life until twenty one and then turns bad he will be sure to come back again.
If one have a hiccough a sudden fright will stop it.
If a swallow pulls three ribs of your head you will be sure to die before the year is up.
When carrying out a coffin the first four that take it have to be of the same name as the person that is dead.
If a person steal an onion out of his neighbour's garden all his onions will rot.
