School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)that if a smith turns the anvil on a person he will bring bad luck on person. There is a cure in the water in which the irons are cooled. People say that it is not lucky to steal anything out of a forge.
Long ago there was a man who brought an iron out of a forge. That night at about twelve o'clock an image appeared to him and told him to leave the iron back again. The man did as he was told and he felt twice as comfortable as he was before. People never stole irons out of a forge since.- Collector
- Paddy Corcoran
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Corcoran
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Killeena, Co. Mayo