School: An Tulach Mór (roll number 11047)
- Location:
- Tullamore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Gearóid Mac Piarais
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0399, Page 172
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- (continued from previous page)On May eve a man would pull a sheet around his neighbour's field, before Sunrise, this would turn his neighbour's butter into his own churn.
They would hang up the spancil and by saying some words it would give milk like a cow.
The old people would never give you a coal from the fire, on the churning day.
You should never open a grave on Monday, unless you dug a sod the day before.
No one should pick flowers May Day.
It isn't lucky for a wedding party to meet a funeral.
If a candle runs at a wake another member of the family will die soon.
Long ago when a young person died they would say he was "carried away".
It is unlucky to build a house "to the west", or to build a house on a path.(continues on next page)
