School: Dún Beag (C.)
- Location:
- Doonbeg, Co. Clare
- Teachers: Eibhlín Ní Shúilleabháin Bean an Ághasaigh
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- (continued from previous page)ever go under the coffin.
8. The same four men who carry the coffin from the house to the Church have to take it to the grave.
9. Other people insist on having four men of the same name under the coffin.
10. Butter
When people are making butter and if anyone comes in they make them make a bit of the churn for them or otherwise they would steal their butter. That is as they say putting the size of their head in the churn.
11. Before a cow is milked the first time after calfing the hairs are burned off her udder with a blessed candle.
12. It is very unlucky when starting on a journey to meet a red haired woman. You should turn back.
13. On Newyear's morning it is unlucky to have a woman come in first everybody waits until a man comes in first to wish them a happy New year so that would have a lucky summer.
14.If a man sold a cow he would have to give a half a crown out of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Beití Ní Dhomhnaill
- Gender
- Female
