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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Dún Drongáin (roll number 7232)

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Drangan, Co. Tipperary
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Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 077

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  3. XML “Wakes”
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  2. Superstitions

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    If a person gets the blood of a true Cahill and puts it on with the whisker of a black cat it will cure St Anthony's fire.
    If salt is spilt, the person who spilt the salt will have bad luck for seven years.
    One magpie for sorrow, two for joy, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for wealth all untold.
    A woman in the parish of Mullinahone
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