School: Rathmorrel (roll number 10545)
- Location:
- Rathmorrel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Anraoí Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0417, Page 154
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- When visiting a house you should leave by the door you entered.
If you met a funeral procession you should turn and accompany it for some distance.
You should not enter a new house for the first time without bringing some gift to the owner of the house.
If you were building a new room on to an old house you should never extend it towards the west.
Some people would never sit down to a table and make one of thirteen guests. Neither would people marry on the 13th day of a month.
Little children never start going to school on a Monday, or servants never enter employment on that day.
If you started work on a Saturday you would never have finished.
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