School: St. James, Barnacogue, Swinford
- Location:
- Barnacahoge, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Lorcáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0116, Page 20
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: St. James, Barnacogue, Swinford
- XML Page 20
- XML “Household Customs”
- XML “Household Customs”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- 1. Throwing out water at night-time.
When a person throws out water at night time the old people say “Chugaibh! Chugaibh! Uisce salach.” The people say this lest any of the “Good People” might happen to be outside. Once a man threw out dirty water at night time, when he was going to bed he heard something outside, and when he got up in the morning all his hair was left beside in the bed and ever since he was a bald man.
- Transcription guide » You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Nan Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killaturly, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs B Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Killaturly, Co. Mayo
