School: Scoil na mBráthar, Calainn
- Location:
- Callan, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: An Mháthair M. Síle
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- (continued from previous page)the whole year, but if it quenched it was an omen of bad luck.If a person contracts a cold or becomes sick on May day they will find it very hard to recover, but if the person has been sick before May, the sickness will completely disappear if, before the sun rises on May morning, a piece of grass is plucked from a fairy rath is placed under the pillow of the sick person. By the time the grass has withered, the sickness will have vanished.
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Liathán
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baunta, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Marnell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilbraghan, Co. Kilkenny