School: Ceathrú (Carton) (roll number 15339)
- Location:
- Cartron, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Floinn
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- (continued from previous page)the person is being coffined.No 7. Before a person is coffined all the members of the family should leave there hand on it.No 8. An uneven number of children in a family will betray their parents.No 9. If ever a women is going but of the house and leaving her child in the cradle behind her she should place the tong's across the cradle for fear fairies might take the infant as it said they take away little infants.No 10. After a cow calving she should on the back under her belly with a coal or a match.No 11. When a coffin is brought to a house the lid should(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lucy Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stuck, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Cassels
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leitrim Upper, Co. Leitrim