School: St Columba's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eoghan Ua Gallchobhair
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 085](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_1111%2FCBES_1111_085.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 085
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 Columba's, Buncrana
- XML Page 085
- XML “A Game”
- XML (no title)
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
- (continued from previous page)up and down like an aeroplane. After this is done for a while the stool is slowly lowered to the ground and the child steps off.
(no title)
“When lightening comes some people make a cross out of turf.”
When lightning comes some people make a cross out of turf. They get two long turf and put one of them across the other in the shape of a cross. Then they put some holywater on the cross. Then they leave the cross on the window-sill. This cross is supposed to keep away the lightning from the house.
Colm Grant
Mrs Grant
Boot Sore
Buncrana- Collector
- Colm Grant
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Grant
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal