(no title)

“There is a field in Lomanaugh called "Clashtee-louhglin".”

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William Gaine

(no title)

“My mother also heard it said that any house harbouring a priest as a constant visitor will be unlucky.”

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1939

(no title)

“Water which has washed the dead in the night should not be thrown out until the day dawns.”

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Mrs. Jeremiah Batt O'Sullivan

(no title)

“I have been listening for many years to the story of a priest whose head is said to have been cut off...”

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1939

Until quite lately there was a spring well in the corner of Jerry Healy's kitchen near the fire.

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Jeremiah Healy

Dan Callaghan of Lomanaugh (aged about sixty years) told me that his mother, Julia Gleeson, attended a hedge-school in Glenflesk.

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1939

Dan Callaghan

(no title)

“James Tuohy, N.T., Cahir, Kenmare told me of a holy well at Cahir which is called Thubber na Finiha (The well of the warts)...”

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James Tuohy

(no title)

“The old people used to warn children that if they robbed birds' nests their hands would get sore.”

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1939

Daniel O'Reilly

(no title)

“I heard it said that it was not right to bury a child on Monday, or to begin any work on that day.”

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1939

(no title)

“I heard my father tell of how a hare and a porcupine once arranged to test the speed of each other at running.”

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1939

(no title)

“At Minish, Killarney, I was shown an opening in the ground near the railway by John Casey of Clasheen on 5 May, 1939.”

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1939

(no title)

“I have heard it said that when a picture falls from a wall without any visible reason it is the sign of a coming death.”

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1939

(no title)

“I have heard it said that it isn't right to have three lights in the one room at the same time.”

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1939

There is a field in Lomanaugh called "Herlihy's Lot".

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1939

Girls used to play a game when I was going to school called "Eena, deena, dína, doe".

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1939

(no title)

“In the old thatched houses it was usual to see a little piece of butter stuck on to one of the shining black...”

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1939

Mrs. Maurice P. Healy

(no title)

“The four-leaf shamrock is said to bring un-told luck the the person who finds it.”

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1939

(no title)

“There is a belief among the people here that if a person licks the belly of a live assloughra nothing will ever...”

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1939

(no title)

“A great many people here make the sign of the cross when they see a new moon for the first time.”

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1939

(no title)

“Mrs. Mike O'Sullivan Mac Cann of Kilgarvan told me that the last Saturday in April is the "Cross Day" of the year.”

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1939

Mrs. Mike O'Sullivan Mac Cann