School: St Canice's, Aghaboe (roll number 16939)
- Location:
- Aghaboe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Aine Ní Dhubhlaoigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0829, Page 459
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- (continued from previous page)of these, while he was employed there. The people over these places honour St. Martin by closing down all work on that day.The seventeenth of February is supposed to be a lucky day. It was on that day that St. Fintan removed the water out of the well in Clonenagh and placed it in Cromogue.There is also a tradition in connection with New Year's Day. The old people say that if a person were angry on that day he would be angry for the whole year afterwards. They also say that if a person were sad on that day he would be sad during the following part of the year. There is another old belief that if it were remaining on a Friday it would be raining on Sunday.Saturday is considered an unlucky day for moving from one house to another. It is said, "Saturday flitting is a short sitting." May is looked upon as an unlucky month for getting married in. "Married in May your children will decay."A child born on Good Friday and baptized on Easter Sunday is said to(continues on next page)
