School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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“If you wash a man's shirt and put it to the fire to dry the woman that he will marry will come to take it.”
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“To get a snail and put him into an oven and cover with the lid”
To get a snail and put him into the oven and cover him with lid. Then in the morning when you would take the lid off he would have the name of the person to whom you would be going to marry written on the bottom of the oven.- Collector
- Pauline Hardiman
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Hardiman
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Kilmacrah, Co. Galway
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“There was once a man who lived a few parishes away from here and he had a wife and children.”
There was once a man who lived a few parishes away from here and he had a wife and children.
After a while he died. One night a knock came to the window and called out "Nancy". She was afraid to get up. The second time Nancy was called she said who is there, the, the answer was "your husband John". She asked him what was wrong and he said he was in great trouble. "I owe ten pounds to a man and I cannot go to heaven until I pay it"
"Well" said she "I am sorry I have no money in the house. If you wait until tomorrow night(continues on next page)