School: Abbey (Naomh Feichín)
- Location:
- Abbey, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séan de Paor
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- 1. In olden days people used to say it was unlucky to make graves on Sundays.
Wednesdays is a very lucky day to get married.
2. Friday is a lucky day to begin building a house, or to change from an old house to a new house. It is also lucky to begin to sow crops on a Friday.
3. It is unlucky to swim or to yoke horses to a plough on Whit Sunday or Whit Monday. It is an unlucky to do any work on the farm.
4. Saturday is an unlucky to begin any-work because you would never finish it.
People always sow parsnips on the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Nancy Madden
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barnaboy, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Bob Larkin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Barnaboy, Co. Galway