School: Ballyuskill (B.), Ballyragget
- Location:
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: F. Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0866, Page 263
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- All people get married on a Wednesday it is the lucky day of the week for getting married. If you got married on another day some of your children would die.
- To eat an egg layed on good Friday you would have good luck. If it rained on Saint Sweedens day it would rain for twenty days. You should set a hen on a Thursday
- Collector
- Jerry Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Jack Delaney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- People say that Saturday is a lucky day to start ploughing. Friday is a lucky day for going to the market
