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School: Achadh na Sealbhaighe (roll number 15344)

Location:
Aghnashalvy, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
T. Maguidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0952, Page 109

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    Seasons and Days Lucky and Otherwise etc.
    In this district for time immemorial it has been held that it is unlucky for a person to be born on Whit Sunday or indeed during Whitsun Week. The belief is that the person born at the time mentioned will either kill or be killed and the last unhappy case of this happened in the district when in the course of an unfortunate local row a young man in the prime of life was stabbed fatally on the bank of a river. This is now nearly forty years ago and the mother of the man who stabbed the other (the only son of his widowed mother)
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Maguire
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derryartry, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Thomas Maguire
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    56
    Address
    Derryartry, Co. Monaghan