The Borrowed Days

According to the old story "An tSean-bho Riabhach", the old Brindled Cow, boasted that even the rigours of March could not kill her, where upon March borrowed three days from April, and using these extra days with redoubled fury, killed and skinned the poor old cow. Henceforth, the first three days of April bring bad weather and are known as laethanta na riabhaiche, the reehy days, the borrowed days, the skinned days and other names.