School: St. Cronan's Longford Wood, An Teampoll Mór (roll number 6662)
- Location:
- Longfordwood, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0547, Page 283
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- (continued from previous page)kept a horse in a house for two years, without ever taking him out once.Some people say that goats are lucky, and perhaps that is why we find one or two on every farm in the district. The usual "clutch" of hen eggs numbers thirteen. The shells are often marked with a stroke of a pencil, so that they may be lucky. Very big eggs are never "set". It is believed that if thirteen eggs are "set" in the month of February, they are all certain to "come out". People do not usually set eggs in the month of June, because the chickens from such eggs are always weak. Wednesday is looked on as a very unlucky day to set eggs.In connection with geese eggs, it is believed that if anyone brings primroses, or as they are known locally "goslingposies", into the house while the geese are hatching the result will be, there will be no young goslings.Hen eggs are best set in a house, as are turkey eggs also; but duck and geese eggs should be "set" outside.
