School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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- If you break a cup on Hansel Monday you will be braking them all the year.
- It is said that if you go to a situation on a Tuesday that inside a month you will be in hospital.
If you let a mirror fall on a Saturday you will have bad luck for seven years. - Collector
- Bertha Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- When Irish farmers are sending out their cows to grass on a May morning they tie red rags on their tails saying that without them they would be over-looked.
- Men do not begin to plough or do any yard-work early in the morning on Tuesday or Thursday because it is unlucky.
- If a person gets news concerning insurances or money on a Tuesday he will have good luck and receive a good deal of money or something(continues on next page)
