School: Cúl Doire (roll number 8008)
- Location:
- Cúldoire, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Máille
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- (Told by my father, Denis Maher (55 years), Pallashill, to me. Collected in the locality. 4-11-'38)
On every evening except Saturday the plough is stuck in the soil and on Saturday it is left at the end of the garden. The early potatoes are to be sowed before the 15th March and the late potates before the 20th April.
Signed Kathleen Maher
Dated 4-11-'38
- Collector
- Kathleen Maher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cnoc na Pailíse, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Denis Maher
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Cnoc na Pailíse, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Told by my father, Michael Delaney (54 yrs.) Pallas to me. Collected in the locality. 4-11-'38)
"The Harvest of the Geese" occurs three times in the year, during the Spring when the geese lay their eggs, and when the farmers put them out on the stubbles after cutting the corn, and when the people are killing them for Michaelmas, Christmas, and Easter. Old people say that March borrowed either three, nine or twenty-one days from April to skin the old cow. Some say the meaning of this is when March was out an old cow who nearly died with hunger shouted, "Now I am safe because March(continues on next page)
