School: Inis (B.) (roll number 15042)
- Location:
- Ennis, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seoirse Ó Maoldhomhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0609, Page 422
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- 1. If you break a mirror you will have seven years bad luck.
2. When you cut potato-seed, old people say it is right to put a coal of fire and a shake of holy-water on the seed.
3. It is not right to go to a spring well after sun-set.
4. It is not right to open the clay on New Year's Day to bury anybody, because you will be burying for the year.
5. A red-haired woman named Mrs. McGlaskey lived in Drumbiggle. She had a bad eye, and if any-one met her they would run in over the wall to avoid her, because she was unlucky.
6. If a coal of fire falls, somebody will come in.
7. If a cock crows at the door(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Hegarty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloghleagh, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Martin Leyden
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Cloghleagh, Co. Clare
