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School: Páirc Árd (High Park) (roll number 11431)

Location:
Carrowgilhooly, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Eoghan Ó Conaill
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    If you pull water-cress on November Eve and don't talk till you reach your own house. Then put it under your head and sleep on it and you'll dream of the person you'll marry.
    If a man be thrashing at twelve o'clock on Nov. Eve he'll see the girl he'll marry provided he does so in the name of the Devel.
    Take the first middle and last
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary O' Connell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dromard, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Miss A. Gilhooly
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    65
    Address
    Dromard, Co. Sligo