School: Fearglass (roll number 15616)
- Location:
- Fearglass South, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 488
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- (continued from previous page)like to put in cows on Friday night in winter as they would think something would happen the cows.
- Long ago Saturday was looked upon as an unlucky day by the old people. None of them would start such work as ploughing and building.
Holy Cross Day was on the fourteenth of September because on that day people used to have their crops in the haggard and make a cross of each kind of crops they have, and hang it in the house out of the roof this used to be done long ago with the old people and left it there till that day twelve months.
Good Friday is the day to start to set potatoes. People do not keep setting all the potatoes but they set a couple of buckets on Good Friday(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Whitney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Beihy, Co. Leitrim
