- People used to say the Rosary in their houses each night.
- A child of Prague was placed on a windowsill to get good weather.
- When a person died a wake was held. This was a gathering of people
in the dead person's home. The sound of a banshee could be heard if a person
was going to die
- It is bad luck to put out fine ashes on New Years Day. They should be left
inside until the following day.
- A single magpie was a sign of bad luck.
- People think that they will have bad luck on Friday the 13th.
- Long ago people couldn't go for a meal after their Holy Communion because
they were poor.
- Girls used to play a game called jackstone. This is how you played the game:
4 people played and the first person to get the most stones in a pile won
the game. The played cards too and cards was very popular.
- Some of the traditions people had were, cutting turf with a sléan,
cows were milked by hand and horses were used to plough the land. People used
all these before machinery was invented. Now days we use diggers for cutting
turf, machines for milking cows and tractors are used to plough