School: Connach, Inis Céin (roll number 10557)
- Location:
- Connagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Ní Ghealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0306, Page 273
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- It is lucky to get money on Monday.
If a person got married on a fine day he would have luck.
Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
Happy is the corpse that the rain falls on.
It is lucky to bring something to the house on Friday.
It is lucky if a dark man is the first person to cross one's threshold on New Year's Day.
If one sold a cow or any big animal one should give two or three shillings for luck. This is called luck money.
It is lucky to throw an old shoe after newly married people.
It is lucky to be born Christman day at twelve or at two o clock.
It is lucky to get the four leafed shamrock.
It is luck to find money or iorn.
It is lucky to have a donkey with the cows.
It is lucky to let the shoes on a dead horse.
- Collector
- Dómhnall Ua Régáin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Connagh, Co. Cork
