School: Árd Aitinn

Location:
Ardattin, Co. Carlow
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Muireadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0910, Page 129

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0910, Page 129

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  1. Certain families are believed to be able to take a great lot of the profit from a field of corn by planting eggs in each corner of the cornfield on May Day.
    The people suspected of butter taking are suspected of working magic with the eggs.
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  2. A plough coulter is supposed to be a lucky thing to have in a car when one is about to put into the car an animal bought in a fair or at a farm house. The writer knows a man who sold a ram to a neighbouring farmer and the neighbour came for the ram. He had a creel on an asses
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