School: Eaglais (roll number 15027)
- Location:
- Eglish, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Conghaile
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“There is a big rock in a filed near Ahascragh and it is said that this is how it got there.”
There is a big rock in a field near Ahascragh and it is said that this is how it got there.
Long ago there was a giant living in Aughrim and he was going to throw a stone from there to English holland instead it slipped from his hand and fell in Killupane Hill a mile further away. There lived a man in this district who was always out gambling, one night when he was returning home he was brought to Ahascragh by the fairy horses. There was another man and he was coming home from gambling and he was met by the fairies and he had to carry a corpse to a grave-yard.
In our district Friday is a lucky day for changing from house to house, people never like to change on a Sunday Friday is a lucky day to start work also.
Thursday is the day for curing ringworm. People do not work horses on a May day because it is thought to be unlucky.
- Collector
- Séamus Ó Conghaile
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Eglish, Co. Galway
- Informant
- James Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyglass, Co. Galway