School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)
- Location:
- Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 161
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- (continued from previous page)long at the gate."
- not lucky to hunt crows. It's a sign of bad luck if crows change their nests from place to another. Crows start to build on 1st March, but should 1st fall on a Sunday a kipin they will not carry. That's a lesson for us -- a warning to man.
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- "Is mairig a bheith ins a dtír gan a bheith tréan""Is mairig a mbíonn charad fánnIs mairig a mbíonn a chlann gan rathIs mairig dhéanfheas branar de'n t-síol (fallow land)Is rí-mhairig dabra(ns) comhrádh gan suim
This applies to old bachelors who remain unmarried - unwise is the man that seeds fallow land.Said by one of the cleverest men that ever lived - I heard it from my mother. R.I.P. - (1) The man that will get me, wont keep me, wont have me when he wants me.(continues on next page)
