Three drops out of a trout's mouth, or the ferrets leavings will cure whooping cough.
INFORMANT: Annie Kelly, Address, Prison North, Co. Mayo
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One night there were two boys coming home from visiting. It was about twelve o'clock. They heard lovely music inside; they listened for a while and they began to dance. When they started they could not stop until the cock crew in the morning. After that they were the best dancers in the country. INFORMANT: John Kelly, Address, Prison North, Co. Mayo
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There is a fair held in the parish of Straid four times a year, on the last day of May....
INFORMANT: James McIntyre, Age 60, Address, Knocksaxon, Co. Mayo
Once upon a time there was a man who had three sons.
When the eldest of them was twenty-one his father thought it was time for him to go and seek his fortune, so he gave him a hound a hawk and a filly and his blessing and he set off on his way. He travelled along for a week and a day till he came to a rich farmer's house.
INFORMANT: Tom Adams, Age 47, Prison North, Co. Mayo
About three hundred years ago a man named Pat Bourke went out visiting. It was about twelve o'clock when he was coming home, and he saw a Leprechaun sitting under a mushroom mending shoes.
INFORMANT: Martin Ansbro, Age 74, Dooros, Co. Mayo
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One night about sixty years ago a great lightning storm arose. There was an old man and an old woman in Roxtown near Balla.
INFORMANT: Mary Mc Donnell Age, 76 Prison North, Co. Mayo
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Long ago there was a holy well in Galway with a wall round it.
One day a woman washed her feet in it, and the following morning it had changed down to the town of Balla.
INFORMANT: Mary McDonnell, Age 77, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo
The little man said that the Lord had commanded him not to leave the river until that branch would blossom.
INFORMANT: Mary McDonnell, Age 77, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo
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Long ago there was a man in Ballyheane who dreamt on Christmas night that Mass…
INFORMANT Patrick Reilly; male, Age; 87, Prison North, Co. Mayo
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INFORMANT: Mary Adams, Age 77, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo
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INFORMANT: Mrs Adams, Dooros, Co. Mayo
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INFORMANT: Mrs Adams, Age 33, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo
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INFORMANT: Michael Kennedy, Age 48 Rush Hill, Co. Mayo
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There was once a man named Sean. He was a shoemaker by trade and he was very poor.
He used to go out visiting every night
INFORMANT: Martin Ansbro, Age 74, Dooros, Co. Mayo
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About one hundred years ago there lived a man in England. He heard that there were very old people in Ireland and he came home to see them.
INFORMANT: Martin Ansbro, Age 74, Dooros, Co. Mayo
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When my father goes to prepare land for potatoes he first ploughs the field with a plough drawn by two horses.
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Just opposite Mr Fitzgerald's house of Turlo Co. Mayo there is a lake called Poll an Dailtín.
INFORMANT: Mrs Adams, Age 40, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo
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About seventy years ago a holy well is supposed to have been neglected and disrespected in the North.
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To cure a burn mix the yoke of an egg and butter together and fry them. Then rub it on the burn.
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