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Old Customs

Abstract: Story collected by a student at An Churrach (Crogh), Árd Fhionáin school (Curragh, Co. Tipperary) (no informant identified).

Original reference: 0572/4/39

 An Churrach (Crogh), Árd Fhionáin [Vol. 0572, Chapter 0004]

County  The Schools' Manuscript Collection : County Tipperary Schools

Story text

transcribed at

 

Old Customs  [duchas:4865527]

Old Customs
The old people say that you should not enter a door with anything on your shoulder or you would not grow any bigger.
The old people would not allow anyone to throw out the water with which the feet were washed at night. They say you should keep it inside for the fairies.
Sgéal: Once there were two old women and one day one of them got sick. At that time all the old people used to buy cloth and make their own habits. So when one of the old women got sick, the other one ran and got her habit and spread it on her on the bed. There was another woman looking on and she asked her why she put the habit on her sister before she was dead and she said that if she didn't she wouldn't have an claim to it when she would die.
Long ago children didn't wear shoes until they were 15 years of age and some didn't wear them until they were 20.

Resource description

Origin information
Curragh, Co. Tipperary
Date created: –
Type of Resource
text
Physical description
p. 292
Volume 0572
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Ó Dubhshláine.
Languages
English  
Genre
Folktale
Subject
Death--Folklore
Death--Bás
Folk beliefs   linked data (afset)
Folk belief--Creidiúint choiteann
Clothing and dress   linked data (lcsh)
Clothing and accessories--Éadaí agus suaitheantais
School location
Curragh An Currach Curragh Ballybacon Iffa and Offa West Tipperary
Location
https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_5054830
Location
University College Dublin. National Folklore Collection UCD .

Original reference: 0572/4/39

Suggested credit
"Old Customs"in "The Schools' Manuscript Collection," held by University College Dublin, National Folklore Collection UCD. © University College Dublin. Digital content by: Glenbeigh Records Management, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_5054830>
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Ó Dubhshláine.
Funding
Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
Record source
Metadata creation date: 2014/2016 — Metadata created by Fiontar, Dublin City University, in collaboration with the National Folklore Collection UCD and UCD Library. Original Fiontar metadata converted into MODS by UCD Library.

School location

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