School: Dromina, Ráth Luirc (roll number 11262)
- Location:
- Dromina, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Daniel Hishon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0367, Page 418
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- OLD PRAYERS This a prayer said by old women before going to sleep:
“There are four corners in my bed
There are four angels o’er my head.
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
God bless the bed that I lay on.”
When a person is going on a journey, say to him “God speed you”, “God be with you” or “God guard you”
When a person goes into a house or a field where people are working say “God bless the work”
When a person gets anything from another he says “God increase you” or “God spare you your health.”
When a person hears of somebody having a great illness he says “God between us and all harm”.
At Christmas people say “May we be all together again this time twelve months with God’s help.
- Collector
- Eibhlís Noonan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Liscarroll, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Liscarroll, Co. Cork
