School: Clonfinlough, Athlone
- Location:
- Clonfinlough, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: E. Ní Mhionacháin
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- (continued from previous page)Palm Sunday to bring luck to the cows.
- A stranger should never be let into the byre when a cow is going to calve.
The first time a cow is milked after calving her elder should be singed with (with) a blessed candle.
You should always make the sign of the Cross before milking. A bottle of Holy water is hung in the byre at Xmas.
Blood of a cock should be sprinkled at the posts of the door of the byre on St. Martin's Eve, to keep all diseases from the cows.- Collector
- Rosie Corrigan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Clonfinlough, Co. Offaly