School: Grange (roll number 3759)
- Location:
- Grange, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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for headache is to measure the head with a weaver's thread taken from a weavers loom. This cure can be given by a weaver or his son or daughter. He recites some words or prayers when giving the cure. - Local lore of certain days."Good Friday", is supposed to be the luckiest day in the year to commence setting crops in this locality.
It is said that the first person who lifts water from the well on May morning will have good luck for the rest of the year. No person should lend to or borrow from another on May day as they shall lose their luck for the rest of the year if they do so.(continues on next page)- Collector
- John Leydon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Grange, Co. Sligo
- Collector
- Michael Mc Gowan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Streedagh, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr Michael Mc Gowan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Streedagh, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr P. Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Aghagad, Co. Sligo