School: Scoil na mBráthar, Caiseal (roll number 16726)
- Location:
- Cashel, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. B. E. Ó hOireabháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0555, Page 279
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- 1. If you have three lights lit in a house together, it is a sign of bad luck.
2. If a person cut his hair on a Monday he would get baldy.
3. If a person was going fishing and if he met another man and if the other man asked him where he was going and if he said that he was going fishing he should turn back because he would catch nothing.
- Tramps come to my house now and again. There is one tramp and he comes every Saturday. His name is Johnny Pins and Needles. He lodges in Cashel which is about three miles from my house. He used to sell pins and needles and that is how he got his name. He used to buy them cheap in the town. Inside his coat he used to keep his bag for the pennies he used to get from the people. Every day that he comes he came at about twelve o'clock(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlemoyle North, Co. Tipperary
