School: Curratavy
- Location:
- Corratawy, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Gallchobhair
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- (continued from previous page)they would throw a coal into every potato field for a good crop. They used also rub a coal to the cows for good luck. On Hallow Eve turnips and cabbage would be thrown at any poor persons door. If a girl raked the hay stack three times she would meet the man she would marry there.It also was a custom for girls to wash their stockings and put them on a chair to dry. Then who ever they would marry would come in and turn them. I heard of a girl that did this. A man came in and turned them. Going out of him he lost a knife. She picked up the knife and kept it. Afterwards she went to America and brought the knife with her. When she was in America she married the kind of a man that turned her stockings. He saw the knife with her and he knew it. He asked her where she got it. So she told him all. He then said he was dead while he was coming to turn her stockings and that she was the cause of it. So he stabbed her with the knife.Seosainn Ní Giolla Padraigh
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- Informant
- John Curnyn
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corratawy, Co. Cavan