School: Clones (Clochar Lughaidh) (roll number 15041)
- Location:
- Clones, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Sr. Máire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0946, Page 420
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- The Lore of Certain Days.
1. If a person is ill and gets better on Sunday its a sign he will not get better.
2 It is said that if a person changes from one house to another on Saturday he will not be long living there _ "Saturday's flit is a short sit."
3 It is said that the first potatoes should be set on Good Friday.
4 If it rains on St. Swithin's day it will rain for forty days.
5 It is said that its unlucky to go beside water on Whit Sunday.
6. It is supposed that a child born on a Whit Monday is unlucky and in olden times a sod would be placed on the child's head for a short time to take away the unluckyness.
