School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 04_057
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- (continued from previous page)5. To see a white or grey horse at night is unlucky.
6. If a man goes on a journey a dark night he should turn his waistcoat inside out.
7. When a person is cardplaying he sticks a darning needle in his coat as a sign of luck.
8. It is not right to give a needle on loan without putting a thread in it
9. To not lend any iron article while churning
10. To hear a cock crowing is the sign of a death.
- Collector
- Peggy Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Mannin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Mweeloon, Co. Galway
