School: An Tulach Mór (roll number 11047)
- Location:
- Tullamore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Gearóid Mac Piarais
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- (continued from previous page)A young lady would put a piece of a wedding cake under her pillow at night and she would dream of her future husband.
The old people would never remove on a Monday to live elsewhere.
It is unlucky to marry on the harvest: What's bound in the harvest is ripped in the spring.
Never build a house with the stones of an old church, it would fall.
They say that you should not take anything new when you are going to a funeral.
It is said also that you should not visit a sick person going home from a funeral.
Old people say that if a thrush sings New Years Morning the coming summer will be bad.
It is right to wear something new on Christmas morning.
Never pick twigs until the moon is gone otherwise they will be brittle.(continues on next page)