School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)

Location:: Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
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luck, and if it is a calf or a cow all the people's cattle will die. When an old person dies in a townland it is said that three people die in the same townland the same month. If a coal falls it is a sign of a stranger coming in. If a robin comes into a house it is a sign of a death in that house.
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Superstition

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The alfabit is written and put upon a wall. The person is blind-folded and whatever letter they put their hand on, they are married to the person that that letter will begin their name. There was a terrible objection in former times to give milk to people on may day, because witch craft was used to deprive the people of their butter. The only way the butter was got back; the milk was put in a churn, the doors closed out tight, and they got a coulter of a

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