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1. Old Customs (continued)

   

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   1. On New Year's Day the old people would not like to meet a red haired woman for they would have bad luck for the year.
   2 May day they would not put out ashes or give away milk or butter.
   3 Candlemas day they threw away the candles because the days were getting long.
   4 If it rains St Swethin's day it will rain for forty days and forty nights after
   5 November's Night they make cally for the pookies
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2. Occupations of Long Ago

   

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   1 There was once a woman and she was going on her holidays she borrowed a hat and she put it on her. She thought she did not look nice and she dipped the cover of a messengar in water and the following day she painted herself. 2 In the olden times when they wanted linen they would grow their own flax themselves. When

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maggie Gibney

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Tom Diskin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kiltullagh, Co. Galway