School: Ballivor (roll number 9380)
- Location:
- Ballivor, Co. Meath
- Teacher: T. Ua Conmhidhe
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“There is a saying about meeting magpies.”
There is a saying about meeting magpies:-
One for bad luck,
Two for good luck.
Three for a wedding.
Four for a wake.
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“When a person would delay out some where, and come home at night-fall, they would be told "Night brings home the crows".”
When a person would delay out some where, and come home at night-fall, they would be told.
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“A person would be complaining about been sick, when there would be nothing wrong with them, people would tell them, to make up a dose out of things that could not be got.”
A person would be complaining about been sick, when there would be nothing wrong with them, people would tell them, to make up a dose out of things that could not be got. Here are some of them:-
Pigeon's butter-milk, ciárogo kidneys and frogs beastling's. A ciárogo is a black clock.