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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Baile Mathúna (roll number 3865)

Location:
Ballymahon, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Sr. M. Clement
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    thing about Monday.
    People do not like moving from one house to another on Saturday for they say,
    "Saturday's flitting,"
    Makes a short sitting."
    Thursday and Friday are supposed to be lucky days.
    "Saint swithin's day if it doth rain, For forty days it will remain."
    When you hear the cuckoo for the first time if you have money in your pocket and turn, you will have money all the year. If you hear the cuckoo on a May-day for the first time and look at the sole of your shoe and if you see a grey hair on it you will live until you are very old.
    It is considered unlucky to see a new moon for the first time through glass. This is a rhyme about the moon.
    "I see the moon,
    And the moon sees me,
    God bless the moon,
    And God bless me."
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Pauline Kearns
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Ballybranigan, Co. Longford