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School: Ráth Bhán (roll number 15996)

Location:
Rathbaun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Ss Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0149, Page 053

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    Long ago tailors and Tailoresses used to go to the different villages making clothes.
    There was a tailor living near this school.
    If any body sneezes and an old person hears him the old person says "God Bess Us or "Dia Linn". If any body is going a journey and the old perople hear it they generally say "God speed them" or "Go n-eirigh and mbothar leo".
    If the old ever get a bell in their ear they make the sign of the
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kate Philbin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derryfadda, Co. Mayo