Cuntas Dialainne Michael J. Murphy, 1 Márta 1956 /
Diary entry of Michael J. Murphy, 1 March 1956
Diary entry of Michael J. Murphy, 1 March 1956
Informant: Hugh O’Rourke
Age: Unknown
Address: Ballintoy, Co. Antrim
Collector: Michael J. Murphy, National Folklore Collection, UCD
Date of Recording: 01/03/1956
Reference:
NFC 1467: 62
Hugh Rourke (left) and his brother Albert Rourke, Ballintoy [Michael J. Murphy, 1956]
Cuntas Dialainne Michael J. Murphy, 1 Márta 1956
Is i mBéarla atá an buntéacs.
Diary entry of Michael J. Murphy, 1 March 1956
Querying the brothers about lore of Seals: nothing of any real point. But Hugh, who said they never liked to kill a seal; saying in his fast, difficult dialect:
“Every night that ever shines there’s a seal comes in to that big hole” – in the sea before the door of course – “and washes itself; we can hear the water splashing. Now, wouldn’t you wonder at an odd thing like that? You’d think he was clean enough in the sea all day without having to come into the big hole to wash himself.”