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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 387

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    notable fact about those days are very cold and a bitter east wind prevails. This wind according to tradition killed an old cow on the twenty ninth of March. If this cow would not be skinned before March was out something dreadful would happen. The cow was so tough that it took three extra days to skin her. These were borrowed from April and added on to March.
    Hench they were called the borrowing days.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Sheridan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rahardrum, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mr Sheridan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rahardrum, Co. Cavan