School: Lisdoonan
- Location:
- Lisdoonan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Mac an Éanaigh
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- (continued from previous page)oftentimes would take wheels off carts and set them rolling at the top of a (wheel) hill or throw them in old shoughs or in dams.
There are costoms for amusing young boys and girls and a lot of girls play them One of them is to hang a cabbage stalk over the kitchen door and the man who comes in on the door first in the morning will be the person to whom the girl will be married or to a man of his name.
Another trick is to pour melted lead through the key of the door into a bucket of cold water. If it comes out in the shape of a nail it signifies nails for a coffin, or death. if any other thing shapes out such as rings, keys, and so on it is a sign the person will be rich. There is another trick and it is done by peeling an(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ena Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cormoy, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Owen Mc Cabe
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cormoy, Co. Monaghan
