School: Caisleán Nua (C) (roll number 15772)
- Location:
- An Caisleán Nua, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Staic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0079, Page 267
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- (continued from previous page)he disregarded the tales about it and when he was ploughing he got sick and was not able to finish it. The field was never been ploughed since.
- To break a looking glass is supposed that the breaker will have seven years bad luck afterwards. To give away butter is supposed that the giver will have no butter for four years after. If the woman of the house is churning and a stranger enters if she does not make him some of the work in churning he is supposed to take the butter off the milk. If a person washes herself in the dew of the first of May she is supposed to have a white skin all the year round.
- There was about five holy wells around here long ago. There was one on Clough, one in Athenry one in(continues on next page)
