School: Gort na Mara (Seafield) (roll number 11565)
- Location:
- Donaghintraine, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ghathaigh
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- It is unlucky to bathe in the sea on Whit Sunday. It is believed that you will be drowned.If any animal is born on Whit-Sunday it will be cross. If it is born at certain unlucky hour, it will die at the same time on a Whit-Sunday also.It is unlucky to "clip" sheep or cut off a lamb's tail at Whitsun. It is said that a "pick" of wool will never grow while there is a hair in a man's head.If a person is drowned on Whit Sunday three persons from the same townland will be drowned before the year is out.
Recorded from.Miss P. Munnelly
Donaghintraine
Dromore West- Informant
- Miss P. Munnelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Donaghintraine, Co. Sligo