School: Kilmore (roll number 13010)
- Location:
- An Choill Mhór, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Eilís, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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- "Where there is muck there is luck".
"There is a rib broken in the devil" - when you do something unusual.When you are planting the potato onion - They are put in on the shortest day and dug out on the longest day."
"Does a cat drink milk?". said when a person is asked to do something that he likes to do.
"He took it like a duck to water" said when a person does a thing well.
"Tell the truth and shame the devil."
The last corpse into the graveyard has to keep watch till another corpse comes, when the latest arrival keeps watch and so on.
A corpse should be brought out feet first.
If there are two roads to the graveyard the longest is taken.
If you meet a funeral on the road you should follow it a bit of the way.
If a man marries a second time his wife must come into his house by the back door. If there is no backdoor, she must come in by the window
- Collector
- Brigid Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill an Dísirt, Co. Liatroma
- Informant
- Brigid Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill an Dísirt, Co. Liatroma
