School: Eileastrom (2)
- Location:
- Ellistrin Big, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire Nic Uilcín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1084, Page 244
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- (continued from previous page)is given as luck money.
If you would sell a cow for twenty pounds ten shillings perhaps you will get half crown or three shillings back as a luck penny.
- 1/ A haw year is a breagh year.
2/ If you bring broom into the house in May you will sweep the head of the house away.
3/ If you bring white-thorn into the house some body will die there.
4/ If any body counts the studs in your shoe that person will die.
5/ If it rains on St Swithern's day it will rain for forty days.
6/ Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy, witty, and wise.
7/ If Candlemas day is bright and clear the half of the winter is to come that year.
8/ He that hath a trade hath an estate.
9/ A little goes a long way.
10/ Come easy go easy.
11/ Between three and thirteen twist(continues on next page) - Collector
- Nat P. Rogers
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortnavern, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs N. P. Rogers
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gortnavern, Co. Donegal
