School: Fieldstown, Drogheda (roll number 14462)

Location:
Fieldstown, Co. Louth
Teacher:
Bean Uí Chléirigh
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0674, Page 247

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0674, Page 247

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Fieldstown, Drogheda
  2. XML Page 247
  3. XML “Old Cutoms for Planting Crops”

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

  1. Old customs for planting crops 25.10.38.
    Long ago the people thought that some days and some months were unlucky for planting crops. Some people considered it unlucky to begin any work on a Friday because it would never be finished. The people did not sow crops after a certain day or date and they used to take out their potatoes on 31st October. There are three days in April that are called the borrowed days that skinned the old cow.
    Anna Lambe 13 years
    Riverstown
    Pariah of Monasterboice
    County Kouth.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Anna Lambe
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Riverstown, Co. Louth