School: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (roll number 14672)
- Location:
- Cnoc na Góla, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Coigligh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 078
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- My mother told me.
A brooding hen or crowing hen are unlucky to kill and the latter is to be left in a fort or on a crossroads. I was told the following incident happened in this locality.
That a woman named Mary Cormac had a clutch of chickens. One night a neighbour named Bess Dillon went in and was looking at the chickens. On the following morning when food was been given to the chickens they were all dead. It was believed a bad eye was thrown on them by the neighbour.
I was told Good Friday eggs are eaten on(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Murphy
- Gender
- Male
