School: Mount Plunkett (roll number 8096)
- Location:
- Mountplunkett, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Bheirn
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- (continued from previous page)the Host he saw the figure of a child.
After that he never followed his wife to Mass and soon after he became a Catholic, and ever since that time the family have been Catholic's. - In Doogra there is a hole in the side of a hill and it is said that in Penal Days Mass used to be said there.
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Lecarrow, Co. Roscommon
- In some districts people don't like to begin any job on Saturday as it is said Sat's flit is a short sit'. Others believe that anything sown on Good Friday will surely grow. Others also believe that the weather in March and April is the weather that skins the old cow, that means that it generally kills any weak or delicate animals that have been failing during the winter.