School: Adare Convent (roll number 9296)
- Location:
- Adare, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Mechtildes
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- (continued from previous page)villages. When old age came on them they gave up that work and no one has taken it up since.Pauline McCarthy, Demesne, Adare
From her great grand-aunt Kate Houlihan, Adare.
Died 1937 aged 93 years. - The Lore of Certain Days.Old people say that friday is a lucky day for setting crops.
If it rains on a friday it will rain on the following Sunday.They say if you begin any work on monday it will take a week to finish it.In olden times people made butter and cheese on wednesday because if made on any other day it would be taken by the "good people".The lightest work was(continues on next page)- Collector
- Pauline Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Adare, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Kate Houlihan
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 93