School: Rathmorrel (roll number 10545)
- Location:
- Rathmorrel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Anraoí Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0417, Page 156
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- (continued from previous page)three consecutive Sundays as Mass.
The vessel into which a newly calved cow is to be milked is sprinkled with holy water before it is used, and the hair of the udder of the cow is always burned off with a blessed candle.
If a woman was the first visitor to a house on New Year''s Day the people of that house would have no luck for that year.
People nail a horse shoe to the back of their kitchen door for luck.
You should never begin any work on a Saturday.
Two people with the same surnames should not get married.
A man should always put down the first fire on New Year's morning.
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