School: Carraig Áluinn (roll number 16.474)
- Location:
- Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mag Uidhir
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- (continued from previous page)9. Common heather is considered lucky but white heather is unlucky. Some hold the opposite with regard to white heather.10. Leaving hospital on Saturday is considered unlucky.11. To sit up for the first time on Sunday after a long sickness is also considered unlucky.12. A hen crowing portends a death in the family.13. Umbrella. Putting up an umbrella in a house is considered very unlucky.14. Dropping a glove - a disappointment. The evil effect is removed if some one besides the owner lifts the glove and hands it back.15. If a person has set out on a journey and has forgotten something he should not return for it. 16. Ladder. Walking underneath is unlucky. If a child does so he will never grow any taller. He must retrace his steps.(continues on next page)
- Joyce connects this with Ciabhach applied to a marshy place with long grass. There surely is a marshy place in Kivvy adjoining the townland of Drumsilla. There is a bog there in which long grass grows and water collects to such an extent that the main road 9Carrigallen to Killeshandra) is often flooded to such an extent as to be impassable for pedestrians.
