School: Ráithín (C.) (roll number 9384)
- Location:
- Raheen, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Peig, Bean Uí Chróinín
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- (continued from previous page)27 Every person and thing praised should receive a blessing - A nice girl "God bless her"
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28 The first drop of milk was milked on the ground some said for the fairies; others maintain it was to be sure there was no dirt on the pap[?]
30. If a person went astray to night he turned his coat inside out.
31. Funerals always went by the longest and oldest routes.
32. Parents did not buy a cot or cradle for their first child - they borrowed one or got one made from old boxes or waited to be presented with one.
33. Old people always made a wish when eating the first meal of new potatoes.
34. Housekeepers burned the hair on the newly calmed cow's with a blessed candle.
35. When visiting a church for the first time people make three requests and there they believed theirs got.
36. In some localities and by some families the custom is that relatives dig the graves for their friends and head the funeral procession as well as fix the last sod on the graves while in others people do not dig their own graves(continues on next page)
