School: Fedamore (B.) (roll number 14068)

Location:
Fedamore, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Martin Moloney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0517, Page 413

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0517, Page 413

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  1. A lucky day to go to another house is on Friday
    Generally everyone removing to another house go on Friday for it is lucky.
    Ploughing
    It is very unlucky to start ploughing on a Saturday for the people say something would happen to yourself or the garden.

    Monday is a very unlucky day to start any job.
    Tuesday is a lucky day to start a job.
    You should never open a grave on a Monday for it is unlucky.
    The time to set potatoes is the beginnimng of March toward the end of March early in April to set mangolds.
    The reason why the frost would kill them.
    The thirteenth is considered unlucky; thirteen sitting at a table is unlucky.
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  2. People come around here often they are called poor people. Some of them sell things and sleep in the open and in wagons. Carthys Shorders.
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