School: Ceathrú (Carton) (roll number 15339)
- Location:
- Cartron, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Floinn
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- If a cuckoo sings on a bare thorn take out your cow and buy corn.
After a cow calving there should be a coal brought out in the thong's (tongs) and quinched with the first strug from each of her four tits and the sign of the cross made on her back with it in order that she will be lucky.
If a hen comes into the house was with a wisp hanging from her is a sure sign of a visitor.
It is unlucky for any person to be sponsor for two children in the same year because either one or the other will die before twelve months.
When a beast has the redwater it was an old cure to crooken a straight pen in the place(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Taylor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corracramph North, Co. Leitrim
