School: Na Creaga
- Location:
- Creggs, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Breandáin
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0015, Page 271](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0015%2FCBES_0015_271.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0015, Page 271
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: Na Creaga
- XML Page 271
- XML “Superstitions”
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
- In olden times if a calf died of black-leg, the old people believed if they cut off the calfs leg at the knee, and put it behind the rafter that no more cattle would die of black-leg. Before they would leg. Before they would (leg) let out a cow after calving they would tie a red ribbon on her tail for fear of the fairies would bring her.
- Collector
- Mick Delaney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Creggs, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Delaney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Creggs, Co. Galway