School: Walterstown (roll number 10356)
- Location:
- Walterstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Proinseas, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0686, Page 227
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- (continued from previous page)March borrowed three days from April to skin the cow. These three days come in April and are called the "Borrowed Days". When they came, they skinned the cow.Harvest of the Geese
This week comes either the first week of September or the last week of August. When the harvest was gathered in, the people had feasting and merry-making in the barns. This lasted that whole week and geese were killed and eaten at the feast.Written by
Mary B. Kelly
Monktown
Brownstown
NavanGiven by:-
James Reynolds,
Follistown,
Brownstown,
Navan
(Farm labourer)20 November 1938
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