School: Béal an Átha Móir (B.)

Location:
Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Seán Ó Heslin
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  1. If you walk under a ladder it is said that you will never grow any more.
    If there is a straw out of a hen's tail it is a sign that a visitor will come to the house.
    It is considered unlucky to try to remove a birth-mark S.oh e.
    When our Lord falls on our Ladys' Lap
    England will have a great mishap 1921
    When the palm and the shamrock are worn on the same day for the second time all Ireland will be free. This will occur in 1940. S.ó h.e.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Cingiseach
    This is name given to a person born on Whit Sunday. There is a belief about here that such a person is destined to kill or get killed.
    To prevent this the person, when a baby is drawn through a hole in a clay dyke, or put through a sort of temporary porch erected with sticks and covered overhead with sods.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Charlie O Beirne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumraine Glebe, Co. Leitrim
    Collector
    Francis Michael Mc Govern
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloverhill or Corglass, Co. Leitrim
    Collector
    Hugh Reynolds
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
    Collector
    Michael Seery
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
    Collector
    Noel Dolan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
    Collector
    Patrick Gallogly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumraine Glebe, Co. Leitrim
    Collector
    Patrick Mc Cartin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Oughteragh, Co. Leitrim
    Collector
    Thomas Darcy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim