School: Baile Stiabhna, Askeaton (roll number 7900)
- Location:
- Ballysteen, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Shúilleabháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0503, Page 378
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- Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays are unlucky days to go on a journey, because it is believed that it will rain before travellers are half way.If people have to remove from one house to another they postpone it to Friday.The old dressmakers never cut out a garment on a Thursday because they said the owner would die before three years.The people never began work on a Monday or a Friday because they were unlucky days.The "Cross day" fell on the twenty-seventh of December but no customs now prevail on that occasion.If people wanted to sow corn on Friday and were not quite ready, they went out and started the work so as not to start on Saturday.Monday is an unlucky day to open a grave because it is said for three consecutive years a death will occur in the house of the grave-diggers.Onions should be sown on the shortest day of the year, and pulled on the day.It is said if hay is not saved before the fifteenth of August it will never be saved.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brian Culhane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mitchelstown, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- John Culhane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Mitchelstown, Co. Limerick
