School: Shanakill, Roscrea
- Location:
- Shanakill, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0547, Page 158
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Homemade Toys (continued)
“In olden times the boys used to make bugles out of straws...”
(continued from previous page)alders.
Snares used to be made of snare-wire. The way they used make was to get 6 threads of snare-wire and loop it in a pot-lid and twist the pot-lid around an it would plait the wire and tie a piece of strong twine to the snare and tie the other end of the twine to a peg to hold it in the ground.
- It is said that the luckiest day to move to a new house is on Friday, but to get married on Friday is considered unlucky.
- Collector
- Dan Quinlan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shanakill, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Quinlan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shanakill, Co. Tipperary
Lore of Certain Days
“In my district anyone who is getting married does so on Wednesday...”
In my district anyone who is getting married does so on Wednesday.
It is said if you set eggs on a Sunday no chickens will come out of them.
The first seventeen days of April are called the "Ríact"days. They tried to skin the old cow in March and they had to borrow seventeen days from April to finish skinning her.
Some say the eight, for the ninth more(continues on next page)
