Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Location
![The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0266](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbe/CBE_0407%2FCBE_0407_0266.jpg?format=jpg&width=1600&quality=85)
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0266
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- When I was [?]young they'd send for a little man when they'd be about to build a house. His name was Mickey Neill and they used to say he was going with them. They'd send for him and he'd know if there was a pass where they were going to build - a pass for the dead or for the good people.
Then they'd put down the pegs and leave them for so many nights. If they weren't removed by the end of that time they'd know that they could build away. I never saw anything put in the foundations of a dwelling-house or of a cow-house except a little medal blessed by the priest.(continues on next page)