School: Glynn (C.) (roll number 4602)
- Location:
- Glynn, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Giolla Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 374
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- (continued from previous page)It is an old custom not to thresh on St Martin's day because he was ground in a mill.If you were born in the night you shall never see ghosts but if you were born in the day you will see any amount of them. It is unlucky to be sick during the months of March, April, and May, because March will search,
April will try,
May will tell you whether you will
live or die
- For many years the same families of "travelling folk" come to this district for the local pattern, the best known of them are the 'Connors" family. "Mag Good",(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen O' Leary
- Gender
- Female
