School: Cnocán an Teampaill, Ros Gréine
- Location:
- Knockantemple, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Nic Aodhagáin
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- (continued from previous page)not right to carry in Primroses into a house until some of the young fowl were out first.
10. It was another old custom to put in a horse nail in with the eggs on a night of thunder and storm.
11. When a person is buying a hen or a chicken from a neighbour they always get some silver for luck.
12. People always put geese under the dresser to hatch because the delph is supposed to help to bring them on.
13. If you saw a straw hanging out of a hens tail it is the sign of a stranger coming to the house.
14. If a hen or a cock crew in the door it is the sign of a death in the house.
15. Some people say if a cock crew in the door it is good news and if he came in and crew out it is the sign bad news.
16. If a person got a needle and black thread and held it by the thread(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Moloney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rosegreen, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Paddy Halloran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Hill's-lot, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- W. Nash
- Address
- Hill's-lot, Co. Tipperary
