School: Ballyfin, Mountrath (roll number 15537)

Location:
Ballyfin, Co. Laois
Teacher:
S. Mac Giolla Fhionáin
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  1. You should always go into a new house in a Friday. If you go to a new job on a Saturday you will not stay long in it. If you seat thirteen people together at a table one of them will be dead before that time next year. You should always begin the Spring's work on a Friday. A Whitsuntide foal is very unlucky it will either kill itself or kill another person. You should never stand for two children the same year or one of the children will die. On St Valentines Day a good goose will lay. If you start work in a field on Saturday
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      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
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