School: Bloomhill
- Location:
- Cluain Creamha, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: C. Nic Annraoi
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 419
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- (continued from previous page)the cure is always applied on tuesday or Friday. People never start ploughing or in fact any job such as moving etc. on saturday. Thez always wait until friday. No one ever moves into a new house except on Friday.
March (does) really does not end until the 9th day of April., so that anything delicate that surived during the Winter is not safe until after the day of the " Bó Riabhach".
Old people say that if thez get safely over this day will live on for the summer.
"March will search
April will try
And May will tell you
Whether you love or die"
is another saying.
- Travelling people come frequently to our homes. Some just come to the door and ask for alms, others sell small items such as tiepins, collar studs etc, and also ash, for alms. There are others who make articles from tin and sell them. Any of those would buy horse hair feathers or rags. They(continues on next page)
