School: Knockaderry (C.) (roll number 2419)

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1. The Seventh Daughter's Cures (continued)

   

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   house in the Glebe field at the entrance to Ardcrone church. She was blind.

   

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2. Popular Beliefs and Customs

   

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   This was an old custom in Kerry long ago. When people were building new houses, they put the bones of a dead animal of theirs, under a flag near the kitchen fire. Long ago, when the eggs were hatched, the woman of the house would not throw away the egg-shells at all, but would put them up on the wall of the cow-house. This was an old custom in Kerry long ago, that when the sow would have bonhams she and her bonhams would be brought into the kitchen,

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Brosnan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Gurteenroe, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Jer Brosnan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   72

   Address

   Gurteenroe, Co. Kerry