School: Abbey (Naomh Feichín)

Location:
Abbey, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Séan de Paor
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  1. 1. Wednesday is a lucky day for getting married. Nearly everybody gets married on Wednesday. The first two letters of Wednesday are Wed and some people call it wedding day.
    2. Some people say that Saturday is no day at all for getting married. If a corpse was going to be buried on Monday the top sod would be taken off the grave on Sunday.
    3. People do not believe in working horses on Easter monday and also May day. Friday is the best day in the week for
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Neil Conroy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballygowan, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Neil Conroy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballygowan, Co. Galway