School: Scoil Sheosaimh Ntha (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Úna, Bean Uí Threasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 209
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14. It is not to go for a nurse at night alone.
15. It is very lucky to get a horse shoe lost.
16. Always keep a horse shoe-nail in your pocket and you will have luck.
17. It is not right to go to a spring-well at night.
18. The first thing a person should buy is a donkey and everything you buy after, will be lucky.
19. Never get too great to a priest.
20. It is right to say God Bless us to a person who sneezes or the the fairies would sweep him.
21. when a man is going to get married he should wear something borrowed.
22. If your stock were dying on you the first one you sell you should get some copper and silver and hide the copper where it would never be seen.
23. When people were building houses long ago they put money in the wall as a token for good luck and they would never be in want.
24. If the cattle are dying you should sell some pigs and for the money to buy some cattle.
25. Dont iron your stockings or you will never be rich.
26. If two were walking together and meet another(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Moore
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Moore
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lettera, Co. Galway
