School: Garrán (B.) (roll number 11274)
- Location:
- Garrane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Drisceoil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0293, Page 232
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- 1 It is not right to kill a pig on Monday.
2 It is not right to meet a red haired woman in the morning going to the fair as you would have no luck.
3 It is not right to make a grave on a Monday.
4 It is not right to strike one with a bush or a cloth.
5 It is not right to start new work on a Monday such as ploughing.
6 It is unlucky to wear green
7 The dog keening or the cock crowing is the sign of somebody dying.
8 It is unlucky to have two people meet in the stairs.
9 It is not right to stretch on the table.
10 It is not right to open an umbrella over yourself in a house for you would have no luck.
11 It is not right to cut your nails on a Friday.
12 It is not right to be up alone about twelve o'clock
13 It is not right to show a baby in the looking glass until it is over twelve months.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Connolly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolbane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Kate Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Coolbane, Co. Cork
