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School: Castlejordan (roll number 15974)

Location:
Castlejordan, Co. Meath
Teacher:
M. Nic Amhlaoidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 024

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    Local Sayings
    The man going to sow his corn puts a knot on a sheet for the seed and no one could take it off only the man that put it on. If a woman takes it off she will die, that year.
    If you give away milk on May Day you will give milk the whole year round.
    If you go into a house with anything on your shoulder, you have to go back on your back or you will have bad luck.
    If you fall in a grave-yard you will die that year.
    When a dog cries there is someone going to die.
    If you go into a house to light your pipe when anyone is churning you cannot go out without taking the dash or you will bring the butter with you.
    A Saturday beginning is a tedious ending.
    If you cross a plough when a
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lizzie Coyne
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kildangan, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Thomas Coyne
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Kildangan, Co. Meath