School: Laragh
- Location:
- Laragh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Ní Riain
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- (continued from previous page)named Mr. Thomas Jackson, Lisnaboe, Kingscourt, Co. Cavan.Composition:- Farm Birds.We hatch about fifty eggs every year. It is said that long ago when the people used be carrying hatch eggs from a neighbour's house they used to put three grains of oatmeal and three grains of salt on the eggs so that they might be lucky.
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- Informant
- Hugh Farrelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Collops, Co. Cavan
- We hatch about fifty eggs every year. It is said that long ago when the people used be carrying hatch eggs from a neighbour's house they used to put three grains of oatmeal and three grains of salt on the eggs so that they might be lucky.
