School: Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 5478)
- Location:
- Rockchapel, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Géibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0351, Page 211
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- (continued from previous page)On May morning, they have a race to be the first to get a bucket of water from it.
Should not redden the ground, May day.
JANUARY 1st.
You should never give the loan of money or anything else on this day. If you do, you will be giving, for the year.
NOVEMBER.
You should never buy anything green this month. If you do, you will be in mourning before the year is out.
MARCH.
A chicken that comes out in March is the healthiest bird of the year and the best layer.
An old saying.-
"My Con or Jack is a real March bird."
Old people dread the March winds. People with any delicacy dislike the coming and going of the leaves.
SAINT JOHN'S NIGHT, 23rd JUNE
Bon-fires were lit all over this district that night. A crowd collected round the fires and danced and sang.
When the farmers lit the bon-fire, they drove their cows by the side of it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Curtin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Broderick
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glenacarney, Co. Cork
