1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. An Currach Mór

School: An Currach Mór (roll number 7707)

Location:
Curragh More, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Hubáin
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0079, Page 322

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0079, Page 322

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: An Currach Mór
  2. XML Page 322
  3. XML “Old Sayings”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Old Sayings (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    the ninth day the young chickens are killed and the blood is sprinkled on the four corners of the house.
    Christmas eve in olden times flour was not so plentiful. People had to go five or six miles for the makings of the the christmas cakes. There was but one stone of flour in each house on christmas day and a goose was cooked for dinner.
    On St. Stephen's day the boys used to go around with the
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Daly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballaghduff, Co. Galway
    Informant
    John Daly
    Address
    Ballaghduff, Co. Galway