School: Lattoon
- Location:
- Lattoon, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Hiorraí
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- The bells in the church are rung to welcome the new year. Three candles are lit in every window of the houses in the district up to twelve at night to welcome the new year. The local band plays the old year out and the new year in. The people go out at midnight to see what way is the wind blowing and if it's a south wind the Irish will have good luck the whole year, and if it's an east wind the English will have good luck. If you give any money away on New Year's day you give the luck with it.
- Collector
- Hugh O' Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan
- The farm animals which we have at home are a horse, two cows, two pigs and one calf and the domestic animals we have are a dog and two cats and we have also about sixty hens. Very few in this district have names on the cows. When driving the cows some people say "hi-ho", "hi-ho", and others say "gee-up", "gee-up" and "how-how"(continues on next page)
