School: Rahan (roll number 9096)
- Location:
- Rahan, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Ní Cholmáin
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- People say that when Our Lord was born in the stable it was very cold and that Our Blessed Lady had not much clothes to wrap Him in and that spiders came and spun webs around Him and kept Him warm. Some people say spiders are holy and that it is a sin to kill them.
- When Our Lord was hanging on the cross all the little birds came to comfort him. One little robin came and picked out one thorn out of his Sacred head one drop of Our Lord's blood fell on her breast and ever since the robins have a red breast and they are blessed in the eyes of men since then.
- Collector
- Agnes O Leary
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lavally Upper, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs O Leary
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lavally Upper, Co. Cork
