School: Baile na Carraige, Cill Díoma (roll number 11295)
- Location:
- Ballynacarriga, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Gríobhtha
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- (continued from previous page)something blue. People throw old shoes after for luck. In olden times it was counted unlucky for to go to mass on the first Sunday or to go home for a month. It is very unlucky to get married in green.
- August is said to be an unlucky month for marriage and there is an old saying the bundle that is tied in August is ripped in September.
- Long ago parents made matches for their children and when one of the match would run away the parents would say you will eat a peck of salt before you will know the good or him or her.