School: Cluain Laighean (B.)
- Location:
- Cloonlyon, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Riada
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- If you pluck a branch from a lone bush it is said that you will have bad luck.
It is unlucky to be struck by an alder rose.
If you walk under a ladder you will not grow.
When a person enters a house while churning he must say “God bless the work” and must also help at the churning otherwise bad luck will come upon the house.
It is unlucky to meet a red-haired woman in the morning.
It is unlucky to break a mirror. (7 years bad luck.)
If a person walks in this one door of a home and walks out thru’ another without stopping he will have bad luck.
It is unlucky to open an umbrella in a house.
- Collector
- Micheál Mac Durcháin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Lurga Lower, Co. Mayo
- Collector
- Pádraig Ó Riada
- Occupation
- Oide
- Informant
- William Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Lurga Lower, Co. Mayo
