School: Corvoy
- Location:
- Corvoy, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Dubhthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Spioraid Naoim”. It was also said to be unlucky to step over the plough. It is said that in the place where a mare foals the first time, a four leaf shamrock grows. This shamrock is always dug by they who own the mare and it is planted and kept for good luck.
If any person meets a man riding a pie-bald horse and if they ask him he can recommend a “cure” for the whooping-cough.
Hens
A crowing hen is very unlucky and is was an old custom to stone crowing hens to death. It is also unlucky for a rooster to crow before twelve o’clock midnight. When a straw is seen over a hen’s tail it is a sign that a stranger will pay you a visit soon. When a strange hen comes and stays at your house it is always unlucky.
- Collector
- Kathleen Coyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornanagh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mr F. Coyle
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cornanagh, Co. Monaghan
