School: Baile Aodha (C.). Inis (roll number 13419)
- Location:
- Ballyea, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Dhuibhgeanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0607, Page 214
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- (continued from previous page)house to get a knife and put a cut in his ear as they believed that the drawing of the blood preserved him from being overlooked by anybody afterwards. That custom has died out now since the authorities at the English Ports are objecting to take any cattle whose ears are cut or punched previously.
When fowls are set hatching such as hens, ducks or geese thirteen is the number of eggs usually put under them as an even number is unlucky but an uneven number is supposed to be lucky.
- Collector
- Brigid Casey
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Casey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Shannacool, Co. Clare
