School: Corbally, Roscrea (roll number 7736)
- Location:
- Corville, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire, Bean de Brún
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- Cutting hair on a Monday, a tailor is not supposed to cut out a suit of clothes on Monday. A grave should not be dug on Monday except a sod is cut on a Sunday or Saturday before, but you may remove into a new house on a Monday. Irish, loma luain proverb. Má's leat a bheith buan, na dein do ghearadh luain, ná Seilbh Sathruinn. Removing into a new house . Imrídh na h-aoine ó thuaidh, imrídh an lúain ó dheas, imrídh an Domhnaigh , imríd Cabharach, imrídh na Céadaoine, imríd eugcaoneach. Imrídh an t-Sathrinn. Imrídh mharnach. Unlucky to take sick on May Eve, or in fact any day in May. A child born around the Whitsuntide is supposed to have an unlucky stroke, (Droch iareacht). Whit Monday (Luan Cincíse). An unlucky day to shear sheep.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mrs Browne
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- Seamús O' Keefe
- Gender
- Male