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School: Adare Convent (roll number 9296)

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Adare, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
An tSr. Mechtildes
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0505, Page 120

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  1. Old Crafts (continued)

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    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.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. The Lore of Certain Days

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    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
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Pauline Mc Carthy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Adare, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Kate Houlihan
    Relation
    Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    93