School: Drumatemple (B.) (roll number 7496)
- Location:
- Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Michael Quinn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0261, Page 008
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- (continued from previous page)out of her you will hear someone's death.
11 If you sweep out dirt on New Years's Day you will be sweeping out your luck.
12 If you are going a journey and meet a red haired woman you are to turn back.
13 If you come in one door you are not to go out the other lest you would leave your luck after you.
14 If you see the crows on the ditch picking themselves it is a sign of rain.
15 If the cat is washing his face the first one he looks at is the first to die.
16 It is a usual custom to tie a red ribbon on a newly calved cow lest the fairies would bring her.
17 It is unlucky to spill salt.
18 If you see the new moon through glass you will have some misfortune.
19 When a young cow calves you will have to milk the first sup through a wisp of straw, roll it up and put it behind a rafter.
20 It is lucky to put a coal under the churn when you are churning.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Joe Walshe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballaghymurry, Co. Galway
