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School: Knockaderry (C.) (roll number 2419)

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Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Hanna Mannix
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 206

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  1. The Seventh Daughter's Cures (continued)

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  2. Popular Beliefs and Customs

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    This was an old custom in Kerry long ago. When people were building new houses, they put the bones of a dead animal of theirs, under a flag near the kitchen fire.
    Long ago, when the eggs were hatched, the woman of the house would not throw away the egg-shells at all, but would put them up on the wall of the cow-house.
    This was an old custom in Kerry long ago, that when the sow would have bonhams she and her bonhams would be brought into the kitchen,
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