School: Cobh Labhráis (C.) (roll number 7453)
- Location:
- Rerrin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)bed for seven years, you would have luck. Some used always plant oats on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and wheat on Mondays, but very few had any special days for this work, only any fine day of the week.
- Long ago if a person got sick and was very bad and got a turn for the better on a Friday they would say that was a good sign of the person. If you gave money out on a Monday that was a sign you would be giving money out during the week. If a person went ploughing on St. Abigail's day they thought it not right as long ago a man and his horses were ploughing in a field on that day and they were both thrown off the cliff. Also another man in Greenane some years ago was digging on the same day and one of his neighbours asked him why he was working on that day and he said in Irish "bheidh triall agam indiu ar Ghobnait". he left the field and went(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Quinlan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Miss B. Regan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 86
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Greenane, Co. Cork
