School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 292
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- Pádraig Ó Faoileáin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leamaneh North, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Ellen Whelan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Leamaneh North, Co. Clare
- If the grave sinks soon after a person is buried it is a sign that another person is going to die in the family. It is not lucky to cut a single white thorn bush or a bush growing in a fort. It is said that if a person cried on New year’s day, he would be crying for the year.
Collected by Tomás O Faoileáin Lemeneigh
Told by (Mrs) Ellen Whelan Lemeneigh (his grandmother)
(80 years) - If a man was a great mower the people would say he had a “dardail” in his scythe. He would put a hole in the duirnin, and put him in and a plug of timber in after him. He was supposed to be the devil. If a man went(continues on next page)
