School: Stonetown, Louth (roll number 16431)
- Location:
- Stonetown Lower, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Dubháin
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- (continued from previous page)People say that if the water in which the feet are washed at night, be -kept- in during the night, that it puts three nails in the coffins of those who washed with it.Jackdaws, magpies and wagtails are 'unlucky' birds. Tis lucky to meet a woman called Mary when going on a journey; to the market etc.
When going to play cards at night [unfinished]
- (continued from previous page)gul ("gul" means crying quoth the narrator) Finn. Later on people called it Sliabh Gullion.
