1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Clogh (B.), Castlecomer

School: Clogh (B.), Castlecomer (roll number 1118)

Location:
Clogh, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
William O' Keeffe
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0865, Page 139

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0865, Page 139

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: Clogh (B.), Castlecomer
  2. XML Page 139
  3. XML “Lore of Certain Days”

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. Lore of Certain Days (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    Potatoes or oats sown in May are called "cuckoo's potatoes" or Cuckoo's oats". Fourteen days of April are supposed to be borrowed from March "to skin the old cow". If the weather is very severe in early April people say "they are skinning the old cow now".
    Boys make whistles from Chesnuts by boring round holes in them and scooping out the centre
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick O' Keefe
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kill, Co. Kilkenny