School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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- It is lucky to put salt in one’s mouth and on one’s head after getting a haircut, it prevents one from getting a cold after the hair. It is unlucky to begin work that will last for longer than a week on a Saturday and if you do you will never finish it.
Collected by: - Seósamh Ó Níalláin Roughan
Told by: - Edward Neylon. Roughan (his Father)
(52 years)- Collector
- Seósamh Ó Níalláin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Roughan, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Edward Neylon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Roughan, Co. Clare
- No one should cry for 2 hours after the corps leaving the house. If a girl spilled salt she would marry a drunkard. If a person went to see a sick on his way home from a funeral, the sick person would die before long.
Collected by: - Máire Ní Dhiolúin Crossard
Told by: - Martin McMahon Crossard, (her grandfather)
(66 years)