School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 06_029
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- (continued from previous page)shoe first in the morning of her marriage she will have bad luck.
13. When a funeral is going to a graveyard it would be right for them to go the long road.
14. It is right to put a black coal down on water which is brought in late.
15. It is not right to give away meat or fish without shaking a grain of salt in it.
16. If a person eats his nails it is a sign that he is a bad minded person.
17. It is not right for a man to like him pipe if the people of the house are churning.
- Collector
- Mary B. Mannion
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Tierney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Killeenmunterlane South, Co. Galway
