School: Cartown, Clogherhead (roll number 1576)
- Location:
- Carstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Alice Mc Glue
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0675, Page 087
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- If a newly made grave falls in another death will soon take place in the family.
If, when a grave is closed in, the mound flattens down soon after the burial this is also regarded as a sign of another death soon in the family.
Salt loaned should always be got back again.
Don't lend matches on Monday morning as your luck for the week is gone if you do.
It is wrong to pay out money on New Years day.
Turn back if the first person you see in the morning is a red haired person.
Don't go into a house empty handed on New Years Day.
When starting on a journey even though you may have forgotten something don't turn back - it is unlucky. Call on some person to go for you.
A Newly married couple should not return home from the Church by the same route they went there.(continues on next page)
