School: Cluain Uí Chuinn (roll number 5844)
- Location:
- Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Floinn
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“Many people believe in pistrogues as they are called locally.”
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Omens of death.
When the cat is engaged at washing her face people in old days waited expectantly to see who would be one she looked at first. That one would be the first to die.
A old custom on the twelvth night was the bringing in of a piece of a board covered thickly with cow's dung. In this were stuck rush-lights, one for each member of the family. They were lighted and whichever one burned out first the owner of it was the first to die.
People who stumbled or fell in the churchyard were supposed to die during the year.
- Informant
- M. Mc Glynn
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Killynagh More, Co. Roscommon