School: Crois-Bhóthar
- Location:
- Pollacorragune, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Bhreitheamhan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0039, Page 0308
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- (continued from previous page)You, get up three Sundays in succession and make the churning before sunrise. The person who comes in to “take the churn dash” is the one who had been taking the butter.
11. Stop the clock when a person dies in the house.
12. When a cock is killed before St. Martin’s, a cross is made with the blood on the back of the door.
13. It is lucky if the first lamb one sees in the New Year is facing you, but unlucky if his back is turned.
14. A coffin is taken out of the back door, and the funeral goes to the grave yard by the longest route.
15. Long ago when the coffin would be placed in the cart to be taken to the graveyard, the horse used to be yoked and unhooked three times in succession.
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Bhreitheamhan
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Príomhoide
