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School: Cobh Labhráis (C.) (roll number 7453)

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Rerrin, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Áine, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 229

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  1. The Lore of Certain Days

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    The people in the olden times never tackled a horse on Saint Brigid's day or on Easter Monday. They had a custom also of never starting to build a house or to start living in a new house in the month of May. They thought it very unlucky to build a house across a path or across ridges in a field, or to build an addition on to the eastern side of the house. They had a great number of piseóga then, that we have not now such as-: never to throw ashes out the front door on a Monday morning nor never to give away money on a Monday. If a person was jealous of their neighbour's property he would go and skim their well with a shell on May day and that was supposed to take away their neighbour's luck. If fishermen going to
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    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Sullivan
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr F. Sullivan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ardagh, Co. Cork