School: Abbeytown Convent N.S. (roll number 15043)
- Location:
- Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Sr. M. Columbanus
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“Long, long years ago the leipreachán was supposed to be seen in a...”
(continued from previous page)lost the cap she could not return to her home under the water without it so she consented to marry the thief. Sometime afterwards however she was cleaning her new home, when she found her cap. On the instant she returned to the lake and disappeared under the water.- In my district the old people believe in many superstitions and have always done so. It is said that if a person spills salt he will have bad, and if a mirror is broken the person that breaks it will(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Aine O' Keeffe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs J. Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rockingham Demesne, Co. Roscommon