School: Oileán Baoi (Dursey) (roll number 13138)
- Location:
- Dursey Island, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Súilleabháin
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“Is is said that there is nothing between the dead and the living but a Sgamall Draoidheachta.”
(continued from previous page)watching down at them. There was one foxy woman in the crowd, and she saw the girl watching them from the leath-locht. She took up a basin and threw it at the girl, and she hit her. She put a mark on her, and it was that mark that put her in the grave afterwards.
- The old people had great respect for the cock. He was supposed to defend the house from any bad that would be coming. There used be a "cúb" in every house and the hens and the cock used be put into it at night. There was an old woman west in Tic-Lice-Finne - Sean Thadhg na Cásca's wife - and she wouldn't allow anyone to interfere with the cock or to put him out. No matter what he did (crowing etc) he should be left inside. When a house was built outside for the hens, she put them all out but the cock and one hen. She(continues on next page)
