School: Dundalk (St. Nicholas Monastery) (roll number 16719)
- Location:
- Dundalk, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Br. T. Ó Briain
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- (continued from previous page)If a farmer is going to the fair, and if the first person he meets is a woman with red hair, he will turn back.
- It is said that if a farmer was ploughing a field and he came upon a little hill with a tree growing in the centre of it, he would not touch it because it is said that the fairies live here, and that they would curse the farmer, if he ploughed their place.
- Collector
- Brendan O Dowda
- Gender
- Male
- The jackdaw is said to bring bad luck with it.
Magpies according to their number are said to bring either(continues on next page)
