School: Garrdha (roll number 12721)

Location:
Garra, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Liam Ó hAnnracháin
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    Friday is a lucky day to start ploughing.

    Friday is a lucky day to start ploughing. Saturday is an unlucky day to start ploughing or sowing oats. If you started on Saturday it would take seven Saturdays to finish.
    Friday and (lucky) Monday are lucky days to start building a new house. If you began to build the Western side of it first you would never finish it because it would begin to fall.
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    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    2. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
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  3. The Ould Cows Days
    One year March came very cold and there was hardly anything to eat for animals. The last day of March came and this old cow said, "March is over now and I will have plenty to eat.
    I will let you know said March. Then March borrowed three days from April. The first day of April was very cold and the old cow was very hungry. She was dead on the second day and
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