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School: Gurteen, Ballymahon

Location:
Gorteenclareen, Co. Longford
Teacher:
F. Ó Murchadha
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  1. The Lore of Certain Days

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    Monday is an unlucky day to kill anything because if you kill anything on Monday you will be killing all week.
    Some people think holy week is a good time for sowing crops as they say they do better than anyother time.
    When a cow calves some people bring out a blessed candle and singes the cow's udder with it.
    The luckiest day to hatch a goose is the seventeenth of March or the twenty-fifth & a turkey Holy Saturday or Easter Monday. May -day is a lucky day to churn milk. People believe when they churn on May-day they never will be without milk for the rest of the year. The first Monday of the year is called hancel Monday. Some people say it is unlucky to give milk or a charity of any kind on that day. If you give things free on that day you
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Pauline Gerety
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gorteenclareen, Co. Longford
    Informant
    James Coughlan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    82
    Address
    Daroge, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Mrs Casey
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    40
    Address
    Ardoghil, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Mrs Gerety
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    34
    Address
    Gorteenclareen, Co. Longford