School: Ballymakenny, Drogheda (roll number 831)
- Location:
- Ballymakenny, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Chearbhaill
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- A wet and windy May fills the haggard with corn & hayFebruary fill dykeA green Christmas makes a fat churchyard.The "borrowed days" are the first three days of April. There are supposed to be cold and wild days. There is an old story about these days. Once there was an old cow who thought when she had weathered March that she was safe. She frisked around the field boasting but March borrowed three days from April & killed the old cow with cold & rain & wind.When the wind blows from the bar at the Boyne there will be(continues on next page)
