School: Gallen
- Location:
- Gallen, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T.R. Goodwin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 264
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1. Friday is a very lucky day for people to go into a new house.
2. Friday is also a very lucky day for starting to do any job, such as sowing and ploughing and so on.
3. It is also a very lucky day to thresh, and to set a setting of eggs.
4. Wednesday is considered a very lucky day for people to get married on.
5. It is lucky to sow onions on the shortest day of the year, and to pull them on the longest day of the year. If this is done they will never go to seed.
6. It is also counted lucky to have all early potatoes sowed before Saint(s)(continues on next page)
