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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