School: Mullagh (B)
- Location:
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: James Drury
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- (continued from previous page)of it. Then they would gather flowers and put them around it so that the fairies would not come to it.
- On May Eve people light a fire in front of their house to burn all the bad-luck from the house.If you wash your face in the dew before the sun rises you will not get sun-burned the whole summer.On May day some people put a tongs on a cradle in which there was a baby afraid the fairies who would take the baby and bring another back in its place.
- Collector
- Freddie Deignan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Deignan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan