School: Soran, Longford (roll number 14683)
- Location:
- An Sorn, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: Wilfred O'Callaghan
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- (continued from previous page)bed. The person that would die soonest there would be most clay on his hands and the person's hands that were wettest would cross the sea.
Another is: on Hallow Eve the man in the house would cut a cabbage head and hang it inside over the door. The first boy or girl that would go to the house while the cabbage would be there would be married into that house before that time twelve months.
If a person gets a basin and fills it with oats and carries it around the house three times then goes into an out-(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philip Hourican
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Droim na Cuaiche, Co. an Longfoirt
- Informant
- Patrick Carloan
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Coill Íochtair, Co. an Longfoirt
