School: Baile an Chlochair, Lic Snámha (roll number 12410)
- Location:
- Ballincloher, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pártholán Ó Gealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0411, Page 348
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- People in this district have strange ideas concerning lucky and unlucky days. They say that the unlucky days throughout the year and Mondays and Fridays. People tell us that on these days you should never cut your hair, or pluck geese. They also say that you should never give meal to pigs on Mondays. There are certain days on which diseases are cured, such as the Eve of Saint John. This is the day that all the people go to Holy Wells to pay rounds for the good of their health. Old people have a lot of strange thoughts about the changing from one house to another.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryvrin, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Norah Walshe
- Gender
- Female
