School: Dún Mór (cailíní)
- Location:
- Dunmore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlín Halliday
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0037, Page 0054
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- (continued from previous page)being left in the ears. The cross was put up generally over the door and it was also on the inside of a thatched roof. It was fixed to the roof with a scallop and there was a potato also attached to the roof with the cross. In springtime before the corn was planted some of the grain from the above named cross was put through the corn seed to prevent the crop being taken. the same was done with the potato.
April is said to borrow some days from March. In that case April is said to skin the Old Cow (finish the bad weather). An old rhyme says :-
"Now put on your cóta mór,
button it closely down before,
For I tell you that just now,
April skins the olden cow."
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ni Ailledéa
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Dunmore, Co. Galway
- Informant
- John Robinson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Killimor, Co. Galway
