School: Dún Beag (C.)
- Location:
- Doonbeg, Co. Clare
- Teachers: Eibhlín Ní Shúilleabháin Bean an Ághasaigh
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- (continued from previous page)cow to the man that bought her and that is called a lucky penny.
15. If you see a cows horn on your way to the fair you should turn home.
16. If you give away a hatching hen you should get a luck penny for it.
- Long ago there lived Downeses where Paddy Haugh lives at present. One day Downes was crooking a drain just inside the ditch near Connells. There is a well near it and they call it a spaw well and when he was crooking he found big long black roots and he showed them to some clever person and he made dye out of the roots as black as sut (soot). Then all the people heard of the wounderful dye and they came for it. The way they used make(continues on next page)
