School: Cill Barúin (roll number 10595)
- Location:
- Kilbarron, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séan C. Ó Ciaráin

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1027, Page 126
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- If you start anything on Friday it will never be finished.
Bloody Monday is a very lucky day for fisherman to catch fish. It is very lucky to get married on a Thurday,
If the farmers bring home the hay on the first Friday of a month, his animals will not eat it.
If a farmer starts sowing his crops on the Third day of a month he will have a great harvest.
Good Friday is a lucky day and if you pray for anything on that day you will get before the next Good Friday.
If fruit trees blossom in March they will have very little fruit.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Betty Anderson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Miss Sarah Mc Neeley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kildoney Glebe, Co. Donegal