School: Lios Gúl, Mainistir na Corann (roll number 4230)
- Location:
- Lisgoold North, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Cathasaigh
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- (continued from previous page)If you are running a race and you come first you are cursed; if you come second you are blessed; if you come third you are lying in the Lord's breast. If you are going on a journey and you meet a sheep on the road is a sign of a funerel.
If you get you hair cut on a Monday is a sign of bad luck. If a knife or a fork or a spoon falls it is a sign of a visitor.
If you spilt the sugar bowl is a sign of a row. If you throw your shoe on the table is a sign of a row. If you see a moth flying around the house in the night time is a sign of a letter in the morning. If there is a big ball of wick gathered together on the candle and you cut it off and it comes again and if you can not keep it off is a sign of a parcel in the morning. (no title)
“There was a man living in Lisgoold the year of the famine. ...”
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- Martin Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Martin Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisgoold North, Co. Cork