School: Clochar na Trócaire, Moyderwell, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Moyderwell, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. Antoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0440, Page 263
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- (continued from previous page)in your right ear is the sign of good luck but if you hear it in your left ear it is the sign of bad luck.
15 If you find a horse shoe on the road, pick it up with your left hand and throw it over your right shoulder and you will have good luck.
16 To hang a horse shoe over the front door of a house is the sign of good luck.
17 At marriage, a person should have something borrowed, something old and something new
18 If s person makes a cake and throws it against the door new year's night, it is supposed to bring him plenty to eat during the year
19 The number thirteen is a very unlucky number
20 To keep a puck with cows is supposed to be good luck.
21 If a person gets a button lost it is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josie Sheehy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Sheehy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilcarra More, Co. Kerry
