School: Bailieboro (C.)
- Location:
- Coill an Chollaigh, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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- 1. It is unlucky to sweep the floor after night-fall as you might sweep away your luck.
2. At a wake the floor is never swept until the corpse is taken out of the home. It is unlucky.
3. It is considered unlucky to go into a graveyard unless one has business there.
4. If you get live coals in the ashes in the morning (except when the fire is raked) it is a sign of a death in the house.
5. On New Year's morning never lend anything out of the house until you get something in. A black haired person coming in brings good luck and a red-haired person brings bad luck.
6. To hear a cock crowing at night is an ill omen.
7. A crowing hen is considered very unlucky, also a whistling woman.
"A whistling woman and a crowing hen,
Brings the devil out of his den".(continues on next page)
