School: Ceann Tuirc (roll number 9317)
- Location:
- Kinturk, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Lochlainn
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away that day because it is said you would have no butter for the year.people go to a place where three rivers meet and take a bottle of water.This is called May-Water.Saturday is a very unlucky day for getting married.
On St Martin's day no one does any work such as knit or to sow nor no one works a mill because some misfortune would happen to the work.Once a man left his mill working on St martin's day to know what would happen but it was brought with a flood.
The last days of March are very unluck.If a beast went bogging those days they would die.The old people mind themselves too.These days are called "na laetha boruigheachta.
- Collector
- Kathleen Reidy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glenletternafinny, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mr John Reidy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Glenletternafinny, Co. Clare
