School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 269
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - If a person is looking down in the ground when he hears the first cuckoo it is a sign that he will be buried before that day twelve months.
If a person looks on the sole of his foot when he hears the first cuckoo and if he finds a grey hair on his foot it is a sign he will comb a grey head.
It is said when you go into a chapel the first time you should make a wish.
When the first person was buried in a Graveyard it was said that others had to stand at the gate until another corpse is buried there.
If a person going a long journey met another person on the way he would have to turn back and go three steps with him for good luck.
If a person lost animals and found them in a place where fairies would live it is a sign of bad luck.
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