School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1001, Page 099
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- XML “Hatching”
- XML “The Three Borrowed Days”
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- Brendan Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Bridget Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- When people are setting a hatching of eggs they never set them on Saturday or Tuesday because the hen gets sick or the eggs are bad.
- The three borrowed days are the first, second and third days of April. There was an old cow long ago and when March was out she let three leaps because she lived during the month of March. Then(continues on next page)
