School: Kilmore (roll number 13010)
- Location:
- Kilmore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eilís, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0204, Page 302
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“A person passing at milking time should say "God bless the cows"...”
(continued from previous page)If a man lights his pipe he must put a sod on the fire.
Anyone who goes in while churning is in progress must take a dreas at the churn.
When a coal falls we say there is a smoker coming in. If you spit on it he will come quickly.
When two hens start to fight we say there is a stranger coming.
- Long ago Our Lord was passing a road where a man was sowing oats in a field. Our Lord performed a miracle for on the following day the oats was fit for reaping. He gathered a number of men and started to reap the oats. That day the soldiers were passing by in search of Our Lord and they asked the man if he had seen Our Lord and he said that he had passed that way when he was sowing the oats. The soldiers thinking it was four or five months since he passed were giving up the search and going to give(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tessie Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killadiskert, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Tessie Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killadiskert, Co. Leitrim
