School: Béal an Átha Móir (B.)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Heslin
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- Collector
- Francis Michael Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloverhill or Corglass, Co. Leitrim
- CingiseachThis is name given to a person born on Whit Sunday. There is a belief about here that such a person is destined to kill or get killed.
To prevent this the person, when a baby is drawn through a hole in a clay dyke, or put through a sort of temporary porch erected with sticks and covered overhead with sods.(continues on next page)