School: Tobar Colmáin, Ráthluirc (roll number 8930)

Location:
Saint Colman's Well, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Bean Uí Aoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0497, Page 419

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  1. In this district Monday is supposed to be a very unlucky day especially when the starting of any new work or enterprise is concerned. For example some people will not begin ploughing on a Monday lest they should have bad luck with their tillage.
    Parents who are sending a child to school for the first time will wait until Tuesday to do so as it is unlucky to start on Monday. Tuesday is said to be a very lucky day to start school. There are other works such as moving into a new house, changing the cows from the stalls to the pasture fields for the Summer, mowing the first meadow which some people will not do on Monday. Moving into a new house on a Friday or during Lent is also considered to be unlucky.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary O' Connor
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonmore, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mrs John Drew
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gortroe, Co. Limerick