School: Lough Arrow
- Location:
- Lough Arrow, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Cathal Ó Dubhghaill
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- There are certain days of the week for making a straining thread.
It is on Tuesday and Thursday that it is made and it is only certain people that can make it and it is made on these days before sunset. If the thread falls on the ground the cure is gone out of it.
Certain prayers are made making this thread is made and the person will not let you see him making it.
When a person dies the can give the cure to some other person.
The siomog days are the two last days of March and the first day of April.
It is said that an old cow said she would live another year because the siomog days where over and March borrowed a day from April and that killed the old cow.
There are certain days of the week for making the cure of the rose.
It is on Monday and Thursday that this cure is made and it is only certain people that can make this cure.
There are certain days of the week for doing work, it is said that Monday is a very lucky day to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Harte
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigeenblike, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr Martin Mitchell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Carrigeenblike, Co. Sligo
