School: Corra Cluana (roll number 14054)
- Location:
- Corracloona, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Caomháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0193, Page 392
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- If you meet a red-haired woman, you will meet with ill-luck except you go back three steps and bless yourself with your left hand.
- Informant
- Terence Keany
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Laghty Barr, Co. Leitrim
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“It is considered unlucky to begin any work on a Saturday.”
It is considered unlucky to begin any work on a Saturday. It is considered lucky to set the first of the potatoes on Ash Wednesday. It is considered unlucky to turn back from a journey, having once begun it. If you wash your hands in the dew and dry them in the sun, you can open any knot. - The people formerly wore no shoes until they were about twenty years of age. Some wore no shoes until they were getting married. There is only one shoemaker in this district now. My father remembers when there were six, all of whom were kept busy. Edward Rooney, the local shoemaker does repair work chiefly, as practically all boots and shoes are bought in shops.
- The following prayers are to be said by a person who could(continues on next page)
