School: Cill na dTor, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 16254)
- Location:
- Kilnadur, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Donnabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0305, Page 176
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- (continued from previous page)It is unlucky to plough up an old lis.
We should never look out the window between twelve and three o'clock at night.
If we go into a house where a churn is being made we should not leave the house until the butter is made.
A person should never jump off a fence at night.
A person should never pass by an old forge, or walk through a lis at night.
It is unlucky to refuse to be sponsor for a child.
If you commence a journey it is unlucky to return to your house until you complete the journey.
If a person dies suddenly or otherwise outside, it is unlucky to take the corpse back into his own house.
It is unlucky to close up a spring well.
It is unlucky to fall in a graveyard.(continues on next page)
