School: Duleek (B.) (roll number 6554)
- Location:
- Duleek, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Braonáin
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- (continued from previous page)put three-pence or sixpence in a tub of water and if you get it out you can keep it. There is about two feet of water in a tub and the ring is at the bottom.
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- Collector
- Patrick Clinton
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Clinton
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- . . . The last thing done before the people go to be is, they clean up the hearth and leave a bucket of clear water outside for the fairies.
- . . . When the people long ago would be going to bed on Hallow-Eve, they would make a big fire, and clean the hearthstone and put a dish of colcannon on the hearthstone, for it is said that if anyone is dead belonging to them that they would come into the house that night.