1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Cloncovid

School: Cloncovid

Location:
Cloncovet, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
S. Savage
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0988, Page 158

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0988, Page 158

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Cloncovid
  2. XML Page 158
  3. XML “The Lore of Certain Days”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. The Lore of Certain Days

    Share Share Post
    It is the belief of the people that there are lucky and unlucky days and months in the year. The old people believed that if a person got married in the month of May or July or on a Friday or Tuesday that he would have bad luck through life. Anyone performing a cure for anything take certain days in the week to do it.
    Monday and Thursday are the day which those cures are
    (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
    Eileen Lynch
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mullaghoran, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mrs Lynch
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mullaghoran, Co. Cavan