School: Naomh Muire, Droichead Átha (roll number 8052)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Sr. M. Bernard Mc Cabe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 267
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- (continued from previous page)There was a woman in Cartown who had only one cow. She used to have ten lbs of butter for the market every week. Someone asked her for a lone of a bit of yarn but she would not give it. It was said she used to wind round the cows on May eve.
It is unlucky to change into a new house on Saturday
If you are going to a new house it is lucky to bring salt
"Saturdays flitting is a short sitting."
It is unlucky to break a looking glass or to go into a house with a spade on your shoulder.
If you meet a redhaired person on your way to the market you should turn back.
A baby's first journey is to upstairs so that he will go up in life.
When a new pump hole is opened the person who draws the first water is never to go near it again.
It is unlucky to spill salt.
If you let a knife fall you will have a visitor a man.
If you let a fork fall you will have a visitor a woman.
If you spill salt you should throw a piece over your left shoulder.
- Collector
- Dodo Carey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mount Saint Oliver, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Maureen Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carstown, Co. Louth
