School: Naomh Seosamh (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
- Teacher: S. Ó Deagha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 370
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- There is no special days for sowing cabbage around here. The first three days in April are supposed to kill all the old cows.
My people never heard of the harvest of the geese.
- Collector
- Oliver Bruen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
- It is not right to tackle a horse on Whit- Monday, because there was a man in Kiltulbagh who dressed his horse on Whit- Monday and the horse and cart tumbled over without reason.
It is not right to put out ashes on May morning.
It is not right tot throw water out at night.
It is not right to sow seed on Wednesday.
Long ago people would not take a peice of a plough; they would be afraid of the ploughman's curse.
