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School: Gallen

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Gallen, Co. Offaly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 264

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    Lucky Days
    1. Friday is a very lucky day for people to go into a new house.
    2. Friday is also a very lucky day for starting to do any job, such as sowing and ploughing and so on.
    3. It is also a very lucky day to thresh, and to set a setting of eggs.
    4. Wednesday is considered a very lucky day for people to get married on.
    5. It is lucky to sow onions on the shortest day of the year, and to pull them on the longest day of the year. If this is done they will never go to seed.
    6. It is also counted lucky to have all early potatoes sowed before Saint(s)
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Devery
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Noggusduff, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mr Michael Devery
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Noggusduff, Co. Offaly