School: Connach, Inis Céin (roll number 10557)
- Location:
- Connagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Ní Ghealbháin
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- 1 It is unlucky to give away money on Monday.
2 It is unlucky to visit the sick on Monday and Friday.
3 It is unlucky to remove a cat from one house to another.
4 It is unlucky to make a grave on Monday.
5 It is unlucky for two people out of one house get married in the one year.
6 It is unlucky to bring in white thorn on the first of May
7 It is unlucky to meet a black cat at night
8 It is unlucky to remove from one house to another on Lent or on Friday
9 It is unlucky to walk under a ladder
10 It is unlucky to knock the walls of an old house
11 It is unlucky to meet a foxy woman first in the morning.
12 It is unlucky to strike a person with a brush.
13 It is unlucky to return to the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Tim O' Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Dromfeagh, Co. Cork