School: Sraithín (roll number 12808)

Location:
Sraheen, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó Croidhean

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0150, Page 189

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It is said that if you bring a pipe out of a corpse house you are bringing the death to your own house.
It is said that if you hear the bean sidhe you will hear of a death.
If a robin comes into a house it is said some one will leave.
It is said that if a swallow comes into a house it is the sigh of bad luck.

8/12/38
It is said that if you say you will go in a place and to die before you have time to go, you will go after your death.
It is said that if a man is not shaved before hie is buried he will not go to heaven.

Collector
Annie Brogan
Gender
female
Address
Stonehall, Co. Mayo
Informant
Annie Clarke
Gender
female
Age
40
Occupation
farmer's wife
Address
Foxford, Co. Mayo
Language
English