School: Strang's Mills, Kilmacow
- Location:
- Strangsmill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Richard Rellis
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0845, Page 300
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Strang's Mills, Kilmacow
- XML Page 300
- XML “Marriage Lore”
- XML “Bees”
- XML “Funny Story”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Monday for health
Tuesday for wealth
Wednesday the best day of all
Thursday for losses
Friday for crosses
& Saturday no luck at all,
- Informant
- Robin Knox
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny
- A swarm in May is worth a ton of hay
A swarm in June is worth a silver spoon
A swarm in July is not worth a fly - Informant
- Robin Knox
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny
- In the village there lived a hunchback. This was a very cheerful fellow and he was always whistling and singing while running errands or working for the neighbour's. One night he happened to be passing a fort and he heard beautiful singing inside. He listened for a while entranced by the music. At last he could contain himself no longer and he burst into a song himself. On the moment the music inside the fort stopped, and the hunchback nothing daunted kept on singing. The faries all trooped(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Robin Knox
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny
