School: Cooneal (roll number 6416)
- Location:
- Coonealmore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Patrick Timbin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0145, Page 125
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- (continued from previous page)If you give away a coal on May day you will have no butter for the whole year.
If you hear a banshee it is said that there is one belonging to you going to die.
If a person saw a horse shaking himself they would spit out three times.
If a hen came into a house with a straw on her foot, and if she left it after her, a stranger would wait for a week or longer, and if she brings it with her again, the person will only come on a message.
When a person wears a suit for the first time, the neighbours say "Well wear".
If a person came into the house for a coal, they would put a fresh sod of turf on the fire before they would bring out the coal.
If you were working and a person to be passing he would say, "God bless the work".
- Collector
- Elizabeth Mc Guinness
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Mc Guinness
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathbal, Co. Mayo
