School: Ceathrú (Carton) (roll number 15339)

Location:
Cartron, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Seán Ó Floinn
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    with it.
    No 19. When counting your money always count it into yourself and you always will have lots of it.
    No 20. When ever a person is setting eggs they should put as asses shoe and the eggs for luck.
    No 21. If a child who never had the whooping cough is put under an ass foal which was not trained that child would never take the whooping bad.
    No 22. In this locality people believe that before a child dies there comes certain calls.
    No 23. When a person goes astray it is believed they walk on the grave of an unbaptized child or the fairies
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lucy Mc Loughlin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Stuck, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Mrs Cassels
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Leitrim Upper, Co. Leitrim