Old Sayings


Story collected by a student at Walterstown school (Walterstown, Co. Meath) (no informant identified).

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Crush-a-Roddy


Story collected by a student at Walterstown school (Walterstown, Co. Meath) (no informant identified).

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Johnny Kelly of Kentstown, now dead, was born in the Parish of Walterstown at the Old Mills in the farm of Fairland.


Story collected by Bernadette Kelly, a student at Walterstown school (Walterstown, Co. Meath) from informant James Reilly.

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Weather-Lore


Story collected by Mary A. Callan, a student at Killough school (Killulagh, Co. Westmeath) (no informant identified).

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Cornaghy


Story collected by a student at Carraig Áluinn school (Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim) from informant James Whitney.

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Old Beliefs


Story collected by a student at Ardfinnan (B.), Cahir school (Ardfinnan, Co. Tipperary) (no informant identified).

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Weather


Story collected by a student at Ardfinnan (B.), Cahir school (Ardfinnan, Co. Tipperary) (no informant identified).

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If your right hand is itchy...


Story collected by Patrick Collier, a student at Camross, Mountrath school (Camross, Co. Laois) (no informant identified).

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It is unlucky for a woman to take off her wedding ring. ...


Story collected by John Dooley, a student at Camross, Mountrath school (Camross, Co. Laois) (no informant identified).

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If you kill a swallow the cows will milk blood. ...


Story collected by Thomas Bergin, a student at Camross, Mountrath school (Camross, Co. Laois) (no informant identified).

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If you break a mirror...


Story collected by Patrick Collier, a student at Camross, Mountrath school (Camross, Co. Laois) (no informant identified).

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If you leave a spoon fall...


Story collected by a student at Camross, Mountrath school (Camross, Co. Laois) (no informant identified).

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If you kill a cricket...


Story collected by Paudeen Collier, a student at Camross, Mountrath school (Camross, Co. Laois) (no informant identified).

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Weather-Lore


Story collected by Mary K. Lynch, a student at Killough school (Killulagh, Co. Westmeath) (no informant identified).

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Odds and Ends


Story collected by a student at Kildraught (2) school (Celbridge, Co. Kildare) from informant A. J. Hamilton.

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Odds and Ends


Story collected by a student at Kildraught (2) school (Celbridge, Co. Kildare) from informant Robert Brown.

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Odds and Ends


Story collected by a student at Kildraught (2) school (Celbridge, Co. Kildare) from informant Miss K. Ward.

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Weather-Lore


Story collected by Donal Archdeacon, a student at Ráth an Tóiteáin (Burnfort), Malla school (Burnfort, Co. Cork) (no informant identified).

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Superstitions


Story collected by Margaret Kelly, a student at Ráth an Tóiteáin (Burnfort), Malla school (Burnfort, Co. Cork) (no informant identified).

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It is said that when the cattle are lying early in the morning it is the sign of rain.


Story collected by Frances M. O' Byrne, a student at Timahoe school (Timahoe, Co. Laois) (no informant identified).

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My grandfather told me that when he was small, they used to go only twice a year with the butter to the market about Christmas and May.


Story collected by Frances M. O' Byrne, a student at Timahoe school (Timahoe, Co. Laois) (no informant identified).

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On the land of my grandfather on the car road leading from Esker Lodge to the Stradbally road...


Story collected by Frances M. O' Byrne, a student at Timahoe school (Timahoe, Co. Laois) (no informant identified).

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The Weather


Story collected by Peggy Hayes, a student at Ráth an Tóiteáin (Burnfort), Malla school (Burnfort, Co. Cork) from 2 informants.

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Superstitions


Story collected by Kathleen Keeffe, a student at Ráth an Tóiteáin (Burnfort), Malla school (Burnfort, Co. Cork) from 2 informants.

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