School: Leac Snámha (B.) (roll number 10957)
- Location:
- Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dáithí. B. Ó Duilleáin
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- (continued from previous page)built it on that evening. Masons also say that if they changed from building one house to build another during Lent that they would have bad luck for the rest of that year.
My mother never puts eggs hatching on a Monday as she says that she would have no chickens out of the eggs if she did so.
People living in my district would never send a child to school on a Monday for the first time as they say it is very unlucky to do so.
It is also considered unlucky to marry on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday in my district. People living in my locality never like to pay out money on a Monday as it is said that they would be paying out money all that week if they did so. It is said also if people get money on a Monday that they will be getting money all that week.
It is considered very(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Maher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockaunacurraheen, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Patrick Sheehy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballintogher, Co. Kerry
