School: Clonmacnoise

Location:
Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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    can tell the future. If there is a bit of clay on it, he will get a rich wife. If it is a long straight stalk, she will be tall. If it is a short stalk, she will be small. If it is crooked then so will she be.
    The owners of cabbage gardens have often to sit up all that night, watching the garden or all the cabbages would be destroyed.
    Some of the old people are afraid to go out of their houses after dark on Hallow Eve Night, as they believe the Fairies are changing from one place to another, and they might take you with them, if you met them on the way.
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