School: Leitir Bric (roll number 14924)
- Location:
- Leitir Bric, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Grannacháin
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- I was inquiring with the old people were there any special days in the year and this is what Charles Browne of Townakeel told me.
!Lá na Leanbh". falls on the 28th December in every year. That was the day on which Herod put all the boys under two years to death. It is not right to get married on that day or to start any special work.
"Leatha na Bó Riabhaice" are the last two days of March and the first day of April. There was an old cow one time and she was very poor and thin. It was coming near the end of March and she said if it was over she would live another while. The last two days of March came very hard and she lived on, and when March was out she began to boast that she was safe but it borrowed a day from April and skinned her. That is the reason that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Browne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Tamhnach Chaol, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- Charles Browne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- An Tamhnach Chaol, Co. Mhaigh Eo
