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Connacht Ireland

 Subject

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Subject Source: Local sources

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Story about why the cock does not crow in Ireland, 1901

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/44
Scope and Contents

Story about why the cock does not crow in Ireland, describing how Christ had said that he was not going until the cock crowed and so in Connaught [Connacht] people placed their cockerels under pots so that they would not crow and they have not crowed since. It is noted that 'They were not so cursed in our Highlands and islands as all that'. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael