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School: Drumlease (roll number 15382)

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Drumlease, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Tomás Diolún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0201, Page 086

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  1. The Lore of Certain Days

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    The people of this locality tell us that if you change from one house to another on a Saturday it is not lucky for "Saturday's flitting leaves a short sitting."
    The luckiest day for beginning work is Monday. Any person with common sense would not begin work on a Saturday or any other days in the week because if you begin work on a Saturday you would have it half done before Sunday and then if it was any important work, and for Sunday to rain, the whole work would be destroyed, so that Monday would be the luckiest day of all for beginning work be-
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Gallagher
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Friarstown, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Mrs Devaney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Friarstown, Co. Leitrim