School: Allenwood
- Location:
- Fiodh Alúine, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: Seán Ó Clúmháin
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- If you break a looking glass you will have seven years bad luck. When they see magpies they say "One for sorrow two for joy, three to get married, and four to die, five for silver, six for gold seven for the secrets not to be told". Old people say if you have a mole on your arm you will never be drowned. Whomever the cat looks at first after washing her face that person will be the first to die in the house. If you were going into a new house for the first time you should bring some thing in as a present. There was a house in Ballyteague(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Ennis
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doire an Mhuilinn, Co. Chill Dara