Connie O'Brien of Kilbanow told me of a superstition relating to the mating of horses.

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1939

Connie O'Brien

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“One wet stormy night three men were playing cards at a neighbour's house.”

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10 August 1939

John O'Sullivan

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“Mary Doyle was a niece to Bridget Doyle.”

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10 August 1939

John O'Sullivan

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“A woman named Kate Wallace of Limerick was married to an O'Mahony of Dromore Castle.”

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1939

Denny O'Connor

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“Dan O'Reilly of Coologues (aged about forty-two) told me that he heard of how the rats were sent away from the house...”

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1939

Daniel O'Reilly

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“The beggarman who was known in Kilgarvan as Dan Gallivan and who used to eat dry flour and lick cream from his fingers was...”

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1939

(no title)

“When I was stationed in the Civic Guards at Raheny, Co. Dublin, in 1931, a woman named Mrs. Collins came to do the cooking.”

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1939

(no title)

“The fact that "coming events cast their shadows before them" has been proved to me personally on several occasions.”

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1939

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“When I was stationed at Roundwood, Co. Wicklow, a drowning was reported at Lough Dan, two or three iles from the barrack.”

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1939

(no title)

“In Kilmurray graveyard I was shown the grave of a priest.”

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1939

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“In the Kilmurray district I heard a ghost story of the first Gallivan man who left the place to live in County Kerry.”

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1939

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“Mrs. Mary O'Shea was a well known seller of fish at the Kenmare and Kilgarvan butter markets.”

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1939

Maurice Healy

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“Remains of the "Bluck Nullog" is used for keeping down high winds.”

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4 May 1939

Mrs. Maurice P. Healy

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“Mrs. Healy told me that the substance of the person from whose house the first smoke arose on May Day would be carried.”

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4 May 1939

Mrs. Maurice P. Healy

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“Some months ago I was talking to some friends by the gate in front of a house in the town of Kenmare.”

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1939

(no title)

“All these things may seem odd to many people, yet they are so natural when we think over the matter.”

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1939

(no title)

“It was in the year A.D. 1917 that the first aeroplane was seen flying over Kilgarvan Parish.”

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1939

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“The spilling of salt by accident at the table is said to foreshow bad luck for the person who spills it.”

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1939

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“A priest is always buried with his head to the north and his feet to the south while his parishioners are...”

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1939

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“If wild birds fly into a dwelling house it is regarded as a sign of bad luck.”

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1939