School: Gort na Mara (Seafield) (roll number 11565)
- Location:
- Donaghintraine, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ghathaigh
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- When a drowning occurs along the coast and the body is not recovered it is believed that if a sheaf of unthreshed oats with a blessed candle under the band is thrown into the sea it will float towards the body and will encircle the spot where the corpse is to be found
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- Informant
- John Dowd
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Dromore West, Co. Sligo