School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)
- Location:
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 457
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“If a man meets a woman, especially a red haired woman and he going to the fair, he goes back home...”
If a man meets a woman, especially a red haired woman and he going to the fair, he goes back home and starts the journey over again. If he doesn't ill-luck will befall him.
A red rag tied on the hors of cattle will save them from disease.
Don't burn "bore-tree", if you do, every kind of bad luck will fall on you.
Don't throw anything really objectionably dirty into the fire, to destroy it. Find some other means of doing away with it. Fire should be respected.
If the flood (the Shannon) [?s] on New Year's night, provision will be dear the whole year.
When a baby is born, everyone visiting should bring a present - small(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Gorman
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Hunt
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim