School: Scoil na mBráthar, Calainn
- Location:
- Callan, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: An Mháthair M. Síle
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- St. Martin's Eve nine nights and a night without counting from all Hallow Eve to the night of St. Martin the blood of a cock should be sprinkled on the door-post to keep bad luck away from the house for the year.If eggs are found in a potato field it is a sign that the enemy wishes to destroy the cropFionn Mac Cumhail was supposed to jump from the top of Sliabh-na-mban and to land on his knees on a rock in the middle of the King's River. The print of his knees are on the rock yet.
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Liathán
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baunta, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Pollard
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Callan, Co. Kilkenny