School: Garrán Bán, Dúngarbhán
- Location:
- Garranbaun, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Maolchatha
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“There is a Lios in a field in Clonea and the name of the field is "Páirc na Reilge".”
(continued from previous page)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.
- 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(continues on next page) - Collector
- Eileen Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shanbally, Co. Waterford
