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School: Baile Dubh (2), (B.)

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Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Seán Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0634, Page 377

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  1. The Lore of Certain Days

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    People do not cut a sod for a grave on a Sunday or cut hair. Tailors or dress makers do not cut cloth on a Monday. People never like to start building a house on a Monday and they do not like paying a debt on that day.
    In this district it is said that potatoes should be planted from the seventeenth of March to the twenty fifth.
    The old cow thought that she was all right when March was over. She ran around the field and said that when March was over she would live for another year. So then March borrowed three days from April and the old cow was skinned on one of those three days. The days for plant beet is from the first day of May to the last day of that month.
    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
    Richard Tobin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
    Informant
    Mr Richard Tobin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyduff, Co. Waterford