School: Allenwood
- Location:
- Allenwood, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0774, Page 391
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- (continued from previous page)a sign of fighting. If you see a "furl-blast" near you on the road you should say "God speed all travellers" because that is the fairies moving from one place to another
When a star falls it is the sign of a soul going up to heaven.
- On a calm evening the people around here can hear the train in Newbridge and they say "When you hear the train it is the sign of rain". When you see a star falling you should wish. When the ducks quack loudly it is a sign of rain. If you kill a hairy maggot it will rain.
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