School: St. Brendan's (C.), Blennerville
- Location:
- Blennerville, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhuircheartaigh

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- Piseóga
1. If you walk under a ladder you will never grow.
2. If you break a mirror you will have bad luck for seven years.
3. If you put an umbrella over your head inside a house you will never grow.
4. If you cut your hair on a Monday you will have a pain in your head until it grows the same length again.
5. If a child is born with a "[?]" is it supposed to be very lucky, captains of ships pay u to £300 for a [?] because it is supposed to save the ship from every danger.
6. If you sit on a table you will never get married.
7. If you hear the cuckoo before summer begins, you will have bad luck until Winter comes.- Collector
- Mary Horgan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Blennerville, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Horgan
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Blennerville, Co. Kerry