School: An Bealach, Crosaire an Ghúlaigh (roll number 1131)
- Location:
- Ballagh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Diarmuid Mac Fhloinn
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- (continued from previous page)animal that died with the disease and put it in the chimney and this keeps the disease away.
- For every wart you have put a grain of barley in a box and parcel it up and throw the parcel on the road and the first one that picks it up takes the wart.
- One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a wedding.
And four to die,
Five for silver,
Six for gold.
Seven for a story that was never told.- Informant
- Mr J. Bourke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clone, Co. Tipperary
- If you met a funeral on the road you should take three steps after it or you would be the next to die.