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Skibbereen, Co. Cork
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Micheál Ó Cuileanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0297, Page 161

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  2. Local Customs

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    Long, ago, the old people used to carry out many customs which are not carried out at all now.
    I heard an old woman, telling a story about two farmers who were enemies. At that time cows used to get a disease called blue quarter, and it was said that that if a person threw a piece of a cow, which had died of "blue quarter" into another person's land on a May morning, with the intention of injuring him, that ill-luck would fall on him.
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