School: Baile Droichid, Cathair Dún Iascaigh (roll number 10533)
- Location:
- Ballydrehid, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Donnchadh Mac Craith
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- (continued from previous page)a house with something on your shoulder.
Meeting a red haired woman on the road brings bad luck.
If she turns around and goes back seven steps you will have the opposite.
When buying a horse if you get a reins with him it never will be used again.
Cut your nails on Monday and you'll have the devil with you all the week.
Unlucky to go to a well after night-fall.
If a baby's hair or nails are cut before twelve months they both will grow weak.
The first time you hear the cuckoo if you spit on the ground you'll see a rib of hair the same(continues on next page)- Collector
- John Keating
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs J. Keating
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 36
- Address
- Ballydrehid, Co. Tipperary