School: Knocknagilla
- Location:
- Knocknagillagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Gilchrist
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0980, Page 064
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- (continued from previous page)Some tie a red rag on a horse bridle and on a cow's tail or a bunch of rowanberries on the cow's horn on May Day for fear they'd be overlooked.
Some wouldn't let you bring a bottle of milk without putting salt in the neck of the bottle for fear they'd bring the butter.
If you cut a lone-bush you'll have three and a half years bad luck.
- When a coal falls at (torn page) fire, it is said that someone is coming to the house, and if you spit on it, they say that they will come more quickly.
- Collector
- John Monagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghadreenagh, Co. Cavan
