School: Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 5478)
- Location:
- Rockchapel, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Géibheannaigh
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- Patrick's week and Lady Day week.
These were the weeks the old people planted the potatoes. Last week in March.
The white oats was sown.21st April.
Was the day to sow the Black oats.The Bó Riabhaiche days.
Farmers watch their cattle on the 2 last days of March and the 1st day of April, for fear they go bogging. These 3 days are unlucky days for cattle.March 25th
Is a lucky day to enter a new house.Shearing sheep.
In this locality, all sheep, are shorn the second week in May.Clipping horses.
The farmers clip the horses the first week in November.May.
The people in olden times dreaded the whirlwinds of May, they believed it was the good people made them, and that they would be taken away in them.
If a spring well is used by a few families(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Curtin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Broderick
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glenacarney, Co. Cork