School: Baile an Chaisleáin
- Location:
- Castletownshend, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Donnabháin
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- It is not right to bring an article made of steel into a house on your shoulder for you would grow no more.
(Foreign cows wear long horns.)
It is not right to look behind when riding a horse after midnight. It is not right to be out at one o' clock or two o' clock in the night.
It is unlucky to cry after the dead.
It is not right to go home alone after midnight.
It is unlucky to carry the dead the short road to the grave.
It is lucky to get married on Saturday or during Shrove.
It is unlucky to get married during Lent.
It is not lucky to have a wedding meet a funeral.
- There is a wishing chair in Sherkin Island. It is situated on the top of an abbey and there is a graveyard round it. It is very high.
