Connie O'Brien of Kilbanow told me of a superstition relating to the mating of horses.

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1939

Connie O'Brien

(gan teideal)

“One wet stormy night three men were playing cards at a neighbour's house.”

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10 Lúnasa 1939

John O'Sullivan

(gan teideal)

“Mary Doyle was a niece to Bridget Doyle.”

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10 Lúnasa 1939

John O'Sullivan

(gan teideal)

“A woman named Kate Wallace of Limerick was married to an O'Mahony of Dromore Castle.”

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1939

Denny O'Connor

(gan teideal)

“Dan O'Reilly of Coologues (aged about forty-two) told me that he heard of how the rats were sent away from the house...”

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1939

Daniel O'Reilly

(gan teideal)

“The beggarman who was known in Kilgarvan as Dan Gallivan and who used to eat dry flour and lick cream from his fingers was...”

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1939

(gan teideal)

“When I was stationed in the Civic Guards at Raheny, Co. Dublin, in 1931, a woman named Mrs. Collins came to do the cooking.”

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1939

(gan teideal)

“The fact that "coming events cast their shadows before them" has been proved to me personally on several occasions.”

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1939

(gan teideal)

“When I was stationed at Roundwood, Co. Wicklow, a drowning was reported at Lough Dan, two or three iles from the barrack.”

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1939

(gan teideal)

“In Kilmurray graveyard I was shown the grave of a priest.”

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1939

(gan teideal)

“In the Kilmurray district I heard a ghost story of the first Gallivan man who left the place to live in County Kerry.”

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1939

(gan teideal)

“Mrs. Mary O'Shea was a well known seller of fish at the Kenmare and Kilgarvan butter markets.”

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1939

Maurice Healy

(gan teideal)

“Remains of the "Bluck Nullog" is used for keeping down high winds.”

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4 Bealtaine 1939

Mrs. Maurice P. Healy

(gan teideal)

“Mrs. Healy told me that the substance of the person from whose house the first smoke arose on May Day would be carried.”

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4 Bealtaine 1939

Mrs. Maurice P. Healy

(gan teideal)

“Some months ago I was talking to some friends by the gate in front of a house in the town of Kenmare.”

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1939

(gan teideal)

“All these things may seem odd to many people, yet they are so natural when we think over the matter.”

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1939

(gan teideal)

“It was in the year A.D. 1917 that the first aeroplane was seen flying over Kilgarvan Parish.”

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1939

(gan teideal)

“The spilling of salt by accident at the table is said to foreshow bad luck for the person who spills it.”

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1939

(gan teideal)

“A priest is always buried with his head to the north and his feet to the south while his parishioners are...”

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1939

(gan teideal)

“If wild birds fly into a dwelling house it is regarded as a sign of bad luck.”

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1939