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School: Árd Bán (roll number 11904)

Location:
Ardbane, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Briain Ó hEarchaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1031, Page 123

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    “It is not lucky to set potatoes before the 25th of March and it is not right to look in the glass on Whit Sunday or to leave to go to another country on June 30th.”

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    go to another country on June 30th. If one sets carrots in May, it is said they will not grow. If people go into a new house in the even middle of the year, it is said they couldn't have good luck. It is said that Saturday is an unlucky day to get married on or the 13th of the month. It is said the second Tuesday of the month for a lucky day to get a new house built. If people leave foreign countries to come to Ireland, it is said that they should leave on Wednesday. Once upon a time, a woman lived to be a hundred years and named every ten years of her life.
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    “There is a Fairy Fort in Tullynagrena about one and a half-mile from Ardbane.”

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    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Kerrs
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13
    Address
    Tullynagreana, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Edward Kerrs
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Tullynagreana, Co. Donegal