School: Leitir Bric (roll number 14924)
- Location:
- Letterbrick, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Grannacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0151, Page 565
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- Laethanta ÁiritheI was inquiring with old people about special days that certain things were to be used.
There is a rhyme about people getting married. Here it is.Monday for health,
Tuesdays for wealth,
Wednesday the best day of all,
Thursday for losses,
Friday for crossness,
Saturday no luck at all,Laethe na bō Riabha [?]: There was once a speckled cow she was very old. She lived all right until March came and she got weak. She thought if she got March over her she would live a long time. When March was over except two days she thought she would live. Then the two days came wet and rough but she lived. March borrowed a day from April and that came rough and wet that the old cow died.When people have a cure for the ring-worm [?] they use it on Monday or Thursday.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Granahan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Ellen Granahan
- Gender
- Female
