School: An Currach Glas, Tulach an Iarainn (roll number 12382)
- Location:
- Curraglass, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Bhriain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0380, Page 302
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- You should never cut your hair on a Monday or on a Friday especially on a good Friday because it would not grow again.
A man should not shave on a Sunday because he would be getting tooth-ache for the year.
You should have winter wheat planted before the wane of the November moon.
You should have potatoes planted before the 17th of March otherwise they would not grow.
You should never dig a grave on a Monday because yourself would be buried the next Monday.
It is very unlucky to get married in May or in November.
It is very unlucky to go to live in a new house on a Monday because all the people would die.
If you rubbed a raw potato to a wart on a Saturday you would never get a wart again.
If a child's tooth falls it should be thrown over her left shoulder three times in succession otherwise another tooth will not grow in its place.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Barry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisnabrin South, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr William Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Lisnabrin South, Co. Cork
