School: Beacán (C.)
- Location:
- Bekan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Dhonnchú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0109, Page 318
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- (continued from previous page)November the feast of St. Martin it is an old custom to kill a fowl and to sprinkle the blood of it on the door-step in honour of he death of St. Martin.
The week after St. Martins is called the "harvest of the geese" because on that week the geese are fattened to be killed for Christmas.
The taí lá na ? was borrowed by May from April to skin the old cow, because she was dying with hunger and there was no grass, and when May got the three days extra the old cow got food, but she died afterwards.
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- Nell Morley
- Gender
- Female
