School: Alt an Chuilinn
- Location:
- Altachullion, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Brigid Martin
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- (continued from previous page)always anxious to have part of the crops especially potatoes set before Good Friday.The three first days of April are called "The Borrowed Days" i.e. the days March borrowed from April to kill an old cow that had boasted that if she lived through March she'd live another year.For people who have been ill or delicate it is said
"March will search
April will try and
May will tell you whether you'll live or die"It is also said that if a person hears the Cuckoo for the first time in any year, while fasting or before having a meal of any kind it is regarded as a sign of hunger for that person all during the year. Others say it is a sign of the person's death before the return of the Cuckoo the following year.
