School: Knocknagilla
- Location:
- Knocknagillagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Mac Giolla Críost
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- (continued from previous page)which is known in our district, is Easter Sunday. All days of the week are correct days for planting crops, except Sunday. There is a period of the year called the "Borrowing Days" because the "old cow" died on the last day of March, and borrowed three days from April to skin her.
- Friday is reckoned a lucky day for starting all classes of work. Good Friday is remarked as a lucky day for planting garden crops especially plants that are subject to miss growing.
Work started on Saturday is said to tough and tedious, and "Saturdays flitting makes a short sitting" so "Friday nights dream and Saturdays told, is bound to come true be it ever so old".
All the other of the months curse a "fair" February. "March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb",
but sometimes she borrows three days(continues on next page)- Collector
- Charles Tierney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghadreenagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Luke Tierney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghadreenagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Patrick Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghadreenagh, Co. Cavan