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School: An Gleann Ruadh, Cill Fhíonáin (roll number 3221)

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Glenroe, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Mícheál Mac Conmidhe
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    If you meet a foxy woman first in the morning, turn home, or you will have ill-luck for the day.
    It is not right to build an addition to the western end of a house.
    It is very unlucky for Bride & Bridegroom to meet a funeral on the morning of their wedding.
    People do not like to draw water from a well after sunset on May Eve, - the more spring water drawn to a house on Christmas Day, the greater will be the luck for the year.
    It is considered unlucky to marry in August - "What is bound in the harvest will be ripped in Spring".
    Setting potatoes - It is a bad omen if a "sholderue" (I.e. a part of ridge left unplanted) appears in a potato garden.
    If you boil water before dawn on a wedding day and spill it in the doorstep that the bride is to go out she will have luck ever afterwards.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    M.J. Mac Namee
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Glenroe, Co. Limerick