School: Woodland (roll number 8464)
- Location:
- Woodland, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mrs Crossan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1085, Page 103
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- (continued from previous page)Whit Sunday is an unlucky day to be born. If a child is born on Whit Sunday it will either be drowned or killed.
- May is supposed to be a very unlucky month for a bride and groom. The saying is, married in May, go far away.
The two last days in March and the first one April are called the borrowing days. - It is said that in olden times the "harvest of the geese" was held from August the first until August the fifteenth. It is thought that the cross day of the year falls on Christmas day. Nobody ever does housebuilding or ploughing on that day.
- Collector
- Kathleen Hegarty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisnanees Lower, Co. Donegal
