School: Cloonacool (roll number 4802)
- Location:
- Cluain na Cúile, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Seán Ó Blioscáin
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Digging potatoes and cutting turf was the work that people did not like to start on Saturday. It is not right to get married on Whitsun days or on the day of the Holy Innocents. Thursdays and Fridays are the lucky days for sowing the crops.Long ago people would not clean out the cow house on New Years Day because they believed that if they did so the cows would not have much milk that year.
