School: Mount Collins, Mainistir na Féile (roll number 10107)
- Location:
- Cnoc Uí Choileáin, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Coileáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0493, Page 298
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- (continued from previous page)field and put grass into the sack you would take all your neighbours luck for the year.
If you went out May morning and put a half crown upon the back of your neighbours cow you would have her milk for the year.
The first time you hear the cuckoo and if your left foot was on the round and to rise it up and look at the heel carefully you would get a long white rib and you would see many years you would live.
If you were walking the road and if you heard the cuckoo and if you stopped and rise up your right leg you would see the hair of the man you would marry.
