School: Clondulane, Mainistir Fhearmuighe
- Location:
- Clondulane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Aindrias Ó Scannail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0378, Page 234
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- Farmers considered Mondays unlucky days for ploughing long ago.
On Saint Brigid's night people used dress up and go around from house to house.
The time for setting the potatoes is between Saint Patrick's day and the twenty-fifth of March. Any oats that was not in before the first of May was called cuckoo oats.
There was a fairy cow who used to sleep in Glenabo and this cow was very boastful. March came and it was very cold and she had no grass to eat. When March was over she went out looking for new grass but March borrowed a day from April. When she went out she saw green grass in the middle of a bog and she went out for it and got drowned in her attempts to get(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tadhg Ó hAilgheanáin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clondulane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Nevin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gearagh, Co. Cork
