School: Cashen, Baile Dubh, Tráighlí (roll number 14992)
- Location:
- An Baile Dubh, Co. Chiarraí
- Teachers: Máire de Paor Dd. Allman
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- Death:You should always stop the clock when a person is dead in the house.
Every time you shiver someone walks over your grave.
A tinker is dead when a donkey is roaring.
When a star falls there's a soul gone to heaven, and you should let anything in your hand fall.
When a cock crows there's a Catholic dead.
When a person is dead and put in his coffin, four men of the same name should remove the remains.
The first person a cat looks at after washing his face, is the next in the house to die.
If the cock crows in the middle of the day, 'tis a sign that a person is dead.
If you saw a peacock's feather on the road you should pick it up. If you did not, someone would die in your family.
To hear a cock crowing is a warning for death.
If you heard a lonesome cry (Bean Sidhe) there would be someone dead in your family.
If a corpse doesn't stiffen, 'tis a sign of another death in the house.
If you died during the 12 days of Christmas, you'ld go straight to heaven.
Green fields in Winter make rich churchyards.
A person cannot die in a bed that has "Royalty" (i. e. anything belonging to the Government) in it.
It isn't lucky to light 3 cigarettes with one match, because the third person is(continues on next page)
