School: Scoil Sheosaimh Ntha (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Gleann na Madadh, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Úna, Bean Uí Threasaigh
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- (continued from previous page)1. On New Year's Day the old people would not like to meet a red haired woman for they would have bad luck for the year.
2 May day they would not put out ashes or give away milk or butter.
3 Candlemas day they threw away the candles because the days were getting long.
4 If it rains St Swethin's day it will rain for forty days and forty nights after
5 November's Night they make cally for the pookies
6 - 1 There was once a woman and she was going on her holidays she borrowed a hat and she put it on her. She thought she did not look nice and she dipped the cover of a messengar in water and the following day she painted herself.
2 In the olden times when they wanted linen they would grow their own flax themselves. When(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maggie Gibney
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Tom Diskin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cill Tulach, Co. na Gaillimhe