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School: Cill Rosanta (C.), Coill Mhic Thomáisín

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Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford
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Áine Ní Fhaoláin
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    1. If you dreamt of a man with a sack on his back you would be married to a tinker.
    2. If you dreamt of a wedding a wake will approach if you dreamt of a wake a wedding will approach.
    3. If you counted nine stars for nine nights in succession and on the ninth night to put an ivy leaf under your head you would dream of the man you would be married to.
    4. If you hit a person with an alder stick you would not grow and bigger
    5. When a piece of Church is falling, chains are heard rattlilng.
    6. On Snap Apple night if you peeled and apple and put the skin over your shoulder you would see the form of the man you would be married to
    7. It is said that if you broke a mirror you would have bad luck.
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    History Edit
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Nora Kirwan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilrossanty, Co. Waterford
    Informant
    Patrick Kirwan
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Kilrossanty, Co. Waterford