School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)

Location:: Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
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1 If you give away milk to your neighbour on May day you will not have butter for that year. 2. If you get a thorn in your foot on May day the sore will never heal. 3. If you looked into a mirror before going to bed you would have bad luck. 4. Make a sweet cake on the Twelfth Night and to hit it against the back door and say "I drive the starvation down to the North". 5. If a man is going fishing and meets a red-haired woman he would not get any fish.
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Language

English

Collector
Mary Martyn
Gender

Female

Informant
Mr P. Martyn
Gender

Male
Age

53
Address

Mulroog West, Co. Galway