School: Tighmhanach (roll number 15715)
- Location:
- Tivannagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs E. Jordan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0234, Page 383
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- (continued from previous page)If a black cat is seen on the road it is a sign of good luck.
If you stick potatoes before St. Patrick's day it is a sign of bad luck.
If a married woman loses her ring it is counted unlucky.
Do not go to any neighbour's house on May day to borrow anything.
A whistling woman, a crowing hen, there is no luck the house they are in.
It is not lucky to throw out ashes on a May morning or to throw out the sweepings of the floor after dark.
Singing before your breakfast crying after it.
Go in on one door and out on another.
Green for grief and red for joy.
Never to leave the house at night without plenty of spring water.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mrs O' Gara
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Mullany
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tivannagh, Co. Roscommon
