School: Muine an Mheadha
- Location:
- Monivea, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraic S. Ó hÓbáin
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- (continued from previous page)their eye to put a fasting spit on it it is said it would cure it. It was an old custom if anyone had a cold to sniff some salt or pepper. It is said that there was a family living around Monivea long ago and any time one of them would die the bean shee would keep crying for a week and the reason of that is that the bean shee is one who is buried without being Babtised and she is a friend.
- Collector
- Anne Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Collector
- Delia Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Collector
- Kathleen Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Noone
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Monivea Demesne, Co. Galway