School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí

Location:
Listowel, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Brian Mac Mathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1126, Page 452

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  1. Old people say happy. "Happy is the corpse the sun rain falls on" and is the corpse that the sun shines on
    If you start your work on Saturday they say it is bad luck and it will never finish.
    If you were going visiting and meet a man with a white horse you should turn back or else you would have bad luck.
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Rowan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bunagarha, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Mrs Rowan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bunagarha, Co. Kerry
  2. Long ago when people would kill a pig they would throw a saucepan of his blood on the yard where he was killed and that would say that they would always have a pig to kill. My father told me that.
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