School: Tiercahan
- Location:
- Tircahan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Riain
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- (continued from previous page)18. Never sweep the house to the door, or you will sweep out your luck.
19. It is not right to cut your hair or nails in Lent.
20. It is not right to borrow or lend on May Day.
21. When you get your hair cut, it is never right to burn it. Stick it into a hole in a ditch.
22. Dont go into a house for a coal where there is a sick person.
23. Dont go into a house to light your pipe when there is a sick person.
24. Dont go into a house to light your pipe when they are churning.
The butter will be gone, and if they churn till dooms-day, n'eer a pick of butter will come on the churn. But if the smoker goes back in again, "reds" outs his pipe, and puts in under the churn the butter will come again all right.
25. It is not right to go into a house where they are churning "without taking a "brash" and saying "God bless the cows".
26. Dont pass a woman milking without saying "God bless your cows" (you cant give the evil eye then)
27. When you milk a cow for the first time after calving, put a six penny bit into the can first.
28. When the cow calves two people bring out a(continues on next page)
