School: Loch Coiteáin (roll number 10049)
- Location:
- Dromickbane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)It was not customary to throw out the feet water at night, for it would bring in the fairies. If it were thrown out, it should not on any account be thrown on front of the door, or they would be certain to come in. It is not lucky to open an umbrella in the house.It is not right to praise any thing too much- lest you over - look it. If you praise anything you should not fail to say - God bless it. If a person sneezed, you should say "dia linn".People never dig a grave on Monday they turn the sod on Sunday, and they finish it on Monday.It is unlucky, to begin your schooldays on Monday.If anything were borrowed for a wake, the people who lent it, should not bring it back.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- K. Riordan
- Address
- Tullig More, Co. Kerry