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Portlongfield, Co. Cavan
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S. Ní Chuilinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0983, Page 123

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  1. The Lore of Certain Days

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    Mondays and Thursdays are days on which cures for certain ailments are performed. Saturday is an unlucky day for changing from one home to another because whoever changes from one home to another because whoever on a Saturday something unlucky happens them and they have to leave the house again in a couple of days. Most people leave the flitting until Monday. Garlic or onions planted on good Friday and pulled on the fifteenth of August has the cure of the toothache. People generally commence to plant the potatoes about Saint Patricks Day and try to have them finished before the first of May. Three days are borrowed from April to skin the illitical old cow.
    The day of the cross does not take place in this district. On a Friday the farmer likes to have his work finished The first of May is unlucky to give away
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    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
    Bridie Luby
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumhart, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mrs Luby
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    43
    Address
    Drumhart, Co. Cavan