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School: Lisnafunchin, Castlecomer (roll number 16230)

Location:
Lisnafunshin, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Ml. Ó Riagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0864, Page 048

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    Marriages should not take on Thursday or Friday because those days are for bad luck if marriages did take place on theese days, the married couple would be always sorrow. A man should not buy or sell on a Monday, because anything he would buy would perish on him: it is for bad luck.
    A man should not cut another man's hair on Saturday; because it is for bad luck. A person should not dig a grave on Monday, because it is the sign of bad luck, because when that man would go to it the next day, it would be full of bones and bits of legs and feet in it.
    Another man should not change his home with another, because that night the man who change his house will see spirits over him all
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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 Williams
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Denis Molloy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Esker, Co. Kilkenny