School: Baile Droichid, Cathair Dún Iascaigh (roll number 10533)
- Location:
- Ballydrehid, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Donnchadh Mac Craith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0576, Page 135
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- (continued from previous page)is a sure sign that we are going to get rain. If a stream gets flooded in wet weather and you hear the water rushing over the rocks, as the people say "The glen is roaring" it is a sign of bad weather.
- Killing a swallow is supposed to bring over eleven years bad luck.
If it happened that a person had two knives beside them eating their dinner they would have two husbands and if you had two spoons you would have two wives. Walking under a ladder on one's wedding day brings ones bad luck. If you fasten an old shoe to the car in which two young people are going in to get married it is a token of good(continues on next page) - Collector
- Catherine Conrick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Toureen, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr James Conrick
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Toureen, Co. Tipperary
