School: St. James, Barnacogue, Swinford
- Location:
- Barnacahoge, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Lorcáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0116, Page 23
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- (continued from previous page)Three for a letter
Four for a boy
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret that should be never told.
- The old people do not like to throw out dirty water at night time for fear there might be any fairies passing by that would get a dash of the water. When the old people are throwing out water in the night time they say; “chugat! chugat! an t-uisce salach.” That is a warning to the fairies to get out of the way. One night a woman threw out water and when she threw it out a man came up to her and he had a bucket of water. He dashed the water into her face. He told her to go in to the house and not to throw out any more water at night time.
Making a churning.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Margaret Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryronan, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Mc Niochlas
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Kilbride, Co. Mayo
