School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór

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Kells, Co. Meath
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Siúracha na Trócaire
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    valuable.
    If you sell sheep or cattle on a Friday you will receive a good lot of money for them.
    (For) Eileen Donnelly.
    When February comes dry all the other months start cursing it, and if February comes wet all the other months come dry.
    If it rains on a Friday it will rain on a Sunday.
    If it is a dry Friday it will be a dry Sunday.
    (For) Josie Levlin.
    If you don't eat meat on St. Stephen's Day you will be preserved from infectious diseases the whole year round.
    (For) Philomena Usher.
    If you stand for two children in the same year it is unlucky.
    (For) Annie Farrelly.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. When February comes dry all the other months start cursing it, and if February comes wet all the other months come dry.
    If it rains on a Friday it will rain on a Sunday.
    If it is a dry Friday it will be a dry Sunday.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.