School: Cnoc an Bhile, Upton (roll number 4152)
- Location:
- Upton, Co. Cork
- Teachers: D. Ó Donnchadha S. Ní Liatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0322, Page 284
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- (continued from previous page)that I will live now" and she was overjoyed. March borrowed three days from April of hard, cold weather and skined "the old cow" that is she died.---------------------------------------------------
"Harvest of the geese"
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Michaelmas week was considered in olden times as the "Harvest of the geese" because on Michaelmas week the old people killed the geese and as a custom they had a goose for dinner on Michaelmas Day the twenty-ninth of September.
- In olden times a man named Sam Marshal went around to the houses of this district story telling and rag gathering. He was known as the "rag and bone man."
Another man named Hugh(continues on next page)
