School: Gallbhaile (roll number 1316)
- Location:
- Galbally, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mícheál L. Mac Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)Forty days twill rain no more.
If a cool August follows a hot July it is the sign of a hard Winter, and a warm dry August a snowy Winter.
Never eat a blackberry after Michaelmas Day for the devil spits on them.
When birds and badgers are fat in October you may expect a cold Winter. It is said
If on the trees the leaves still hold.The coming Winter will be cold.
It is said that a green Christmas
makes a fat graveyard.
- It is said that it is unlucky to go for milk on May Day. Long ago the old people usually got heath brooms to sweep the yards. It was regarded as a bad sign, to get one of those on a May Day.They say thay March is the luckiest month in the year to be born in. It is said any animal or child born on Whit Sunday is unlucky. The owner of the animal born(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Rashford
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballybrennan, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Philip Rashford
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Ballybrennan, Co. Wexford
