School: Gurrane (B.) (roll number 14839)
- Location:
- Clondrohid, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Loingsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0326, Page 139
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - If you met a black snail on May morning you would be married to black woman. If you met a red snail on May morning you would be married to a foxy woman. It is unlucky to meet a foxy woman on May Morning. People go to "Cahir" on May Day to perform rounds and to bring home water. If you milked your cow on May Day you would have the produce of his milk for the year.
- If you met a black snail on May morning you would be married to a black woman. If you met a red snail on May morning you would be married to a foxy woman. It is unlucky to meet a foxy woman on May morning. People go to "Cahir" on May Day to perform rounds and to bring home water. If you milked your cow on May Day you would have the produce of his milk for the year.
- It was a custom on May Day that if you washed your face on the dew you would be grand for the year. If you met a brown snail you would be married to a foxy woman. There was a man there long ago and a neighbour called to him for milk on May Day. He was eating his breakfast and he told him to go out and milk a cow and he never thought that it was May Day morning for it was said that if a neighbour milked a cow first he would have the produce of the year.
