School: An Chluain
- Location:
- Cloan, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Cearbhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0274, Page 418
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- (continued from previous page)which I know. If a person got a haircut it is right to put the hair into a hole, because when the person will die he will come back for the hair.
Fishermen do not go fishing on St. Bartholomew's night because the old people say that anyone who goes out fishing on that night gets drowned.
If a person got burned it is good to rub a tongue of a fox to it.
If a dog bit a person it would get better if the dog licked the cut three times.
If a knife fell on the ground a gentleman would visit the house and if a fork fell on the ground a lady would visit the house.
If a person got a hairpin on the road, the first one he or she would meet they would marry.
If sparks flew out of a fire, some money would come into that house.
If a person was going on a journey and if a funeral was passing, that person should go along with the funeral until he or she would reach the first cross.
Long ago all the people used make a potato cake on Michaelmas Day.
If a sod of turf fell out of the fire, a stranger would visit the house.
If a person came into a house to light his pipe when a churn(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Murchadha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Allihies, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Seán Ó Murchadha
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 85
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Allihies, Co. Cork
