School: Currach Saileach (roll number 13800)
- Location:
- Curraghsallagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Séamus Mag Fhloinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0243, Page 003
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- (continued from previous page)The next thing they do is to go out into the garden and go around the stack three times and you will meet the man you are going to marry.
They also get a ball of wool and throw it out the window, and keep winding it and say' "who holds it" and the man that will answer you that is the man you will marry.
In the morning if there is a track of a foot on the ashes turned outwards, a person will go out of the house within the year and will not return, and if it is turned inwards one will come into the house to remain.
We place our shoes in the form of a t and we say this rhyme.
"I place my shoes in the form of a T,
Hoping this night my true love to see,
The colour of her hair and the clothes that she will wear(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Cafferky
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Curraghsallagh, Co. Roscommon
