School: Cullahill (C.), Rathdowwney (roll number 13137)
- Location:
- Cullahill, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Mrs Baird
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0830, Page 284
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- In nearly every townland, certain days are looked upon as being lucky or unlucky, and this district contains a fair amount of them. The following are some of the traditional lore of certain days, still preserved in this district.
People are loth to begin the ploughing of Spring until Friday. Farmers also try to have the ploughing and harrowing of Spring finished before St. Patrick's Day, because "St. Patrick turns the stone". This is an ancient proverb still preserved in the country, which means that the weather of March is getting warmer after St. Patrick's Day has passed.
May-Day is so called because it is the first day of May. On that day, the sign of the cross is put on cows. People also believe that if milk was sold on that day, the person who purchased it, will get the power to take all(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Rhatigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cullahill, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mrs Rhatigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cullahill, Co. Laois
