School: Garrán Bán, Dúngarbhán

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   “There is a Lios in a field in Clonea and the name of the field is "Páirc na Reilge".”

   

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   that field and every May eve the fairies used to dance in it. One night a man was looking for a cow and he saw a lot of fairies playing ball[?]. One of them was wearing a red jacket and he said "Up red jacket". He was hit by the ball[?] in the eye and he was blind ever afterwards.

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   I live in the Parish of Kilrossanty and St. Brigid is the Patron Saint of the Parish.
   On St. Brigid's Eve my mother hangs a sash or a tie or a handkerchief on the latch of the door so that St. Brigid would bless it during the night and it would cure a headache.
   On May Eve my father shakes Easter water on the land and on the animals and outhouses.
   The old people around here would not cut their hair on a Monday as they think it would not grow and they stick the

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