School: Cooneal (roll number 6416)
- Location:
- Coonealmore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Patrick Timbin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0145, Page 161
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- (continued from previous page)If you see a hen bringing in a wisp of straw into the house and if she leaves the straw inside, the visitors will wait for a few, and if she brings out the straw again, the visitor will come in and out again.
If the tongs fell into the fire they would say a stranger was coming to the house.
If a spoon fell they would say a lady visitor would come in.
If they see a new moon they will bless themselves and wish.
If they hear the banshe crying they will say someone around the place die.
If you see two hens fighting they would say a stranger was coming to the house.
When the people heard a dog crying the people would say a person was going to die the place.
If sparks flew out of the fire the people would say were to get money.
- Collector
- Tessie Mangan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs M. Mangan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carn, Co. Mayo
