School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
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- (continued from previous page)Wednesday: When a person gets a new boat, she is never taken to sea at first on Wednesday as it is considered unlucky.Thursday is a lucky day for marriage.Friday: If a person wants to go to see a sick person, he never does so on Friday. It is also unlucky for marriage. If a person gets sick on Friday he will never recover.Saturday is a lucky day for marriage and for removing into a new house.Good Friday: It is unlucky for a smith to redden an iron in a forge or for a farmer to redden a scrape of ground on Good Friday.–––Onions should be sat on the shortest day of the year and pulled on the longest day.Blackberries should never be picked after the last day of September.Potatoes should be sat before St. Patrick's day and should be dug before November day.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Josephina Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drishane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs E. Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Drishane, Co. Cork