School: Stravicnabo
- Location:
- Stravicnabo, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Michael Kelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0978, Page 506
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- (continued from previous page)Too much of anything is good for nothing.
- It is said if you heard a hen crowing you should kill her, because there is an old saying, "Whistling woman crowing hen, there's never luck in the house they are in". If a cock was set in March and come out in March he would crow at twelve o'clock every night, but, they usualy crow coming on to daybreak. When a person is sick the cock crows in on the window and when they are getting better they go away. When there is a straw hanging from a hens leg it is said there is a stranger coming to the house.
- Collector
- Maeve Fay
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumnaveagh, Co. Cavan
