School: Baile an Chlochair, Lic Snámha (roll number 12410)
- Location:
- Ballincloher, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pártholán Ó Gealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0411, Page 354
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- It is said that Mondays and Fridays are the unlucky days of the year. A shoemaker never starts of a Monday making shoes or a tailor never makes a suit of clothes, only patching or putting seats in pantses. The people never cut their hair on Mondays because they say it is unlucky. If a person is sick all the week and if goof of a Friday it is a bad sign. They are liable to get a change for the worse again.People never change from one house into another during the season of Lent or Advent. This is a story that was told to me by my Grandmother. There was a woman in Cork going to change from one house to another. She was married to a man from Kerry and he did not want to leave(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Leahy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryvrin, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Elizabeth Leahy
- Gender
- Female
