School: Graigue, Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4124)

Location:
Graigue, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Lionacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0375, Page 027

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    It is a practice in the country that when a person is to be buried on a Monday the grave is made on the previous Sunday or at least portion of it. People who are engaged to work for about twelve months will not start on a Monday as they consider it unlucky in the country. The old people considered that the best time to plant potatoes was between the two holidays - St. Patrick's Day the 17th March and Lady Day 25th. Oats is hardly ever sown before March 1st and rarely sown after the first of April. Some people prefer to get a hair-cut any day of the week other than Monday or Friday. If the weather is very wintry that is - cold with sleet snow and stormy about mid-January people for a wide area term it "the Molagga Rout" evidently from the fact that the fair of Molagga was held on the 20th January. In a season
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Durane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Aghacross, Co. Cork
    Informant
    James Durane
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    54
    Address
    Aghacross, Co. Cork