School: Saints Peter & Paul, Balbriggan

Location:
Balbriggan, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
Bean Uí Chorcoráin
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0783, Page 482

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0783, Page 482

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: Saints Peter & Paul, Balbriggan
  2. XML Page 482
  3. XML “The Lore of Certain Days”

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. Certain days of the week are considered lucky and unlucky in this district. New shops are seldom opened on any day but Friday as Friday is considered very lucky. People changing from one house to another genrerally choose Friday for this she reason. It is seldom anybody changes houses on a Saturday as it is said that "Saturday's flitting has a short sitting"
    In this district it is considered lucky to have the early potatoes sown before the seventeenth of March and not later than the end of March. When the days int he middle of July are very warm they are known as "Dog Days". The real reason for this name is not known. Some people say it was because of the terrible heat some of the dogs went mad. When it is warm in October or November it is called "St Martin's
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rita Carton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Balbriggan, Co. Dublin
    Informant
    Mrs Carton
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Balbriggan, Co. Dublin