School: An Sciobairín
- Location:
- Skibbereen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cuileanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0297, Page 161
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- (continued from previous page)the day. The old people say that it is very unlucky for youngsters to be out after nine o'clock on May evening.
- Long, ago, the old people used to carry out many customs which are not carried out at all now.
I heard an old woman, telling a story about two farmers who were enemies. At that time cows used to get a disease called blue quarter, and it was said that that if a person threw a piece of a cow, which had died of "blue quarter" into another person's land on a May morning, with the intention of injuring him, that ill-luck would fall on him.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Conchubhar Ó Dálaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Hayes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Gortnaclohy, Co. Cork
