School: Adare Convent (roll number 9296)
- Location:
- Áth Dara, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: An tSr. Mechtildes
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- (continued from previous page)to the neighbours let it alone and passed on. As he was entering his home he saw the calf behind him and it let out a terrible wail at him. He put his hand to stroke it but it had vanished. The man told this to his wife and she said. "This is some evil omen", and she was right because this man died soon afterwards.Pauline McCarthy, Demesne, Adare.
From Kate Houlihan, Adare, 93 yrs.
- Omens.If you pass a person on the stairs you will have bad luck. If you hear a death tick in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pauline Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Áth Dara, Co. Luimnigh
- Informant
- Kate Houlihan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 93
- Address
- Áth Dara, Co. Luimnigh
