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School: Árd-achadh (C.) (roll number 14076)

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Ardagh, Co. Limerick
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Máire Ní Mhadagáin
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  1. The Lore of Certain Days

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    Peggy Doody July 15th , 1938
    Liskilleen,
    Ardagh,
    Co. Limerick.
    The Lore of Certain Days.
    In this district Monday is regarded as being an unlucky day to do certain works. Such as changing cattle from one place to the other. Putting them to grass at the beginning of the grass season, or beginning certain farm operations, such as ploughing, and cutting hay etc. Also people of the locality consider it unlucky to remove from an old house into a new one.
    The proper time to plant potatoes is before the 17th March, and if the cuckoo makes her appearance in the Spring time, and the potatoes are not sown before that time, they are called cuckoo potatoes.
    Saint Swithin's day, which falls on the 15th of July, is regarded as an indicator for the weather which follows. If St. Swithin's day is fine, the forty days that follow it will be fine, and if it is wet the forty days that follow it will be wet.
    This tradition arose
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Doody
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Liskilleen (Dickson), Co. Limerick
    Informant
    John T. Enright
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Liskilleen (Dickson), Co. Limerick