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School: Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 5478)

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Rockchapel, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Donncha Ó Géibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0351, Page 210

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  1. The Lore of Certain Days

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    Patrick's week and Lady Day week.
    These were the weeks the old people planted the potatoes.
    Last week in March.
    The white oats was sown.
    21st April.
    Was the day to sow the Black oats.
    The Bó Riabhaiche days.
    Farmers watch their cattle on the 2 last days of March and the 1st day of April, for fear they go bogging. These 3 days are unlucky days for cattle.
    March 25th
    Is a lucky day to enter a new house.
    Shearing sheep.
    In this locality, all sheep, are shorn the second week in May.
    Clipping horses.
    The farmers clip the horses the first week in November.
    May.
    The people in olden times dreaded the whirlwinds of May, they believed it was the good people made them, and that they would be taken away in them.
    If a spring well is used by a few families
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Curtin
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    James Broderick
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Glenacarney, Co. Cork