School: Loch an Cheanntaigh (Loughkent), Cathair Dhúin Iascaigh
- Location:
- Loughkent West, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Laighin
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- (continued from previous page)open all the doors and windows and put on a good fire and burn the eggs in the fire. Most people nowadays sprinkle their crops and cattle with holy water on May day so as to prevent evil-minded neighbours from doing them harm by means of pishiógs on May eve. It is thought that when the eggs were put in a hay field or in a hay stack that harm would come to the cattle that would eat the hay or that the crop of milk or its yield of butter-fat would be transferred to the evil-minded person who would be responsible for putting the eggs in the hay. Most people would not allow any suspicious person into their houses or farms on May eve
- Collector
- William Cleary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Springfield, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Patrick Cleary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Springfield, Co. Tipperary
