School: Cillíní Díoma (roll number 15071)
- Location:
- Killeenadeema, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Uinsionn Ó Conáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0059, Page 0175
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- 1. putting cows from one field to another on May day and milking cows on that day to keep the butter.
2. If a person going a journey meets a hare if the hare passes on the they will have a lucky journey but if he turns back the journey will be unlucky.
3. If two people were walking together they should not let anyone out between them or around a hole because they would be disappointed
4. The water that shares a dead person should be thrown under a bush so that when they come back they will have shelter.
5. Before making a churn people put a coal under the churn to keep in the butter.
6. If a person meets one magpie it is for bad luck, two for good luck, three for marriage, four to die, five for old Ireland, six for France, seven for a piper and eight for a dance.
7. If a churning is going on in a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Ní Mhaolchiarain
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Earlspark, Co. Galway
