School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 06_026
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- 1. When a person is playing cards he sticks a darning needle in his clothes to bring him luck.
2. If a person buried a dead animal in another man's field the man whose field it is buried in will have no luck.
3. If a man finds a potato in the place where he intends to sow his own it is the man who put the potato there who will have the profit of the crop.
4. When a couple are getting married people throw shoes after the bride so(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary B. Mannion
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Tierney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Killeenmunterlane South, Co. Galway
