School: Tomhaggard
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- Tomhaggard, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Riain
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- Collector
- Eamonn Carty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cross-scales, Co. Wexford
- It is said that it is unlucky to set a hen on Friday. A girl set a hen on Friday morning, and she put 13 eggs under her. She set her in a corner of a house, she went out in the evening to see if the hen was all right. When she went out the hen was gone. A fox had taken her and a rat had sucked the eggs, and she said "May no body have any luck to set a hen on Friday."
I heard this story about the hen and girl from my mother, Mrs Meyler, Cousinstown Bridge.