School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)
- Location:
- Oughterard, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr M. S. Iognáid
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- Saint Martin's Day falls on the 10th of November. On that day it is an old custom to kill a cock and to spill the blood of the cock on the step of the door. People also put it on their foreheads.We are told that on that day when a cock was boiling in the pot, he lifted the lid, jumped up on the floor and began to crow and said "Mac na h-Óige slán." On that account we celebrate that day.
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- Collector
- Máire Ní Fhathaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oughterard, Co. Galway