School: Árd Phádraig

Location:
Ardpatrick, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Pilib Ó Conaill
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    People say if you took a shovel on your left shoulder you would not grow any more.
    Some people put bad eggs in their neighbour's ricks, thinking that whatever bad luck was in their own farm would go to their neighbour in the eggs.
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  2. If you went under a ladder you would never grow again, but if grown up people did this they would have bad luck.
    If you let your glove fall from you it is said that a disappointment will happen to you, but if you get another person to hand it to you nothing will occur to you.
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