School: Loughglinn (C.)
- Location:
- Loughglinn, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Méadhbha, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)surname carry out the corpse. If you allow a black cat into a room where there is a dead person the cat must be killed. After a death takes place in a family all the clothes in the house should be washed. Stopping the clock, and turning the chairs upside down are other old customs
When a bride gets married the first one to kiss her will be the next to get married. After a marriage the bride does not return to her home for a month. Another custom is to throw an old shoe after her for good luck.
Pegging cabbage at doors on Hallow Eve is a custom young folk practice. when a churning is being made coals are put around the churn so that the "Good(continues on next page)- Collector
- Claire Crawley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loughglinn, Co. Roscommon