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School: Sraithíní (roll number 17145)

Location:
Sraheens, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
M. Ní Dhuinnshleibhe
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    1. Good Friday is a good day to sow oats.
    2. If you sow oats on the day of a full moon you will have a bad crop
    3. Trí - lá - na - Riabhoige, The three first days of April, so called bacause long ago March with its cold severe weather almost killed an old cow and when she was not dead on the 31st of March, March borrowed their Day from April to finish her. Ever since then the three first days of April, are cold rough and stormy.
    4.
    Domhnach Roinn chothromh an tharbh. the last Sunday in July is locally called this
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    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
    Mary J. Walshe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bohola, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Michael Dunleavy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrowkeel, Co. Mayo