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School: Loughglinn (C.)

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Loughglinn, Co. Roscommon
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Méadhbha, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0240, Page 408

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    had to be used at any rate in the latter process in the strictest secrecy and by one person alone.
    It is customary to bring a lighted coal from a bon-fire on the night of the twenty third of June and to throw it through the tillage to protect the crops from disease.
    When going on a journey should we meet a red haired woman, or one with a turn in either eye, we are warned that our journey will not thrive with us that day and that we should at once turn back.
    There is another very old custom which is still carried out at the present day. When a corpse is being removed from the house, tables and chairs
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Twohey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Loughglinn, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    James Twohey
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Loughglinn, Co. Roscommon