School: Clonfinlough, Athlone
- Location:
- Clonfinlough, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: E. Ní Mhionacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 254
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- (continued from previous page)A person that dies out side should never be brought into the house but waked in the barn.
If you met a woman when you are going to a fair you will have bad luck.
When my father is going to the fair he always sends a boy out to open the gates so that he will have good luck.
Long ago when the farmers where going to Athlone to sell their stock, if they did not get a drink of puteen in Ballinahown they would have bad luck.
If a person's stock is dying and he puts a goat with them it will bring back the luck to them.
When a rat crosses the road when you are going a journey you will meet with a disappointment.
If you see a magpie when you are going a journey, you should go back or you will meet with bad luck.
The bride should never go to look at the house where she is going(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Lowe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowkeel, Co. Offaly
