School: Clochar na Trócaire, Nenagh
- Location:
- Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. Seanán
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- Festival Customs. 22-12.'371. To peel an apple and to throw the skin over the left shoulder with your eyes closed. The skin is supposed to form the initial of your future husband.
2. A boy and a girl put two nutshells in a cup of water, if the nutshells stay together they will be married, but, if they float apart the pair will not marry.
3. The father of the house takes an oatcake and he hits the door with it on New Years Eve a certain rhyme is recited and this is supposed to keep the hunger from the door for the year.
4. To be born on the first of December it is said you will get a painful death.
5. To be vaccinated on each arm it is said that person will never be drowned.- Collector
- Teresa Clandillon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Dublin Road, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Michael Ryan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Dublin Road, Co. Tipperary