School: Balla (C.)
- Location:
- Balla, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Katie M. Walker
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- Collector
- Katie M. Walker
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Stephens
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathduff, Co. Mayo
- Certain branches are used as decoration such as holly and laurel during Christmas.
On May day there is another branch called, the whin. Branches of the whins are hung on the trains on May day.
On May day some people get up very early. The first thing they do is to go out to the nearest "hery-kery bush. They pick three branches of it when they go home they tie it around(continues on next page)