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School: Liostuathail (B.) 1.

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    on May Eve. They used also carried a lighted blessed candle around each of the stalls.
    A big bonfire is lit on Saint John's Day. St John's Day is the twenty fourth of June. All the boys go from house to house gathering turf. When the bonfire is lit all the boys start dancing around the fire.
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    On May morning before sunrise go out into the garden and the first snail you see pick it up and put it on a plate sprinkled lightly with flour, place a cabbage-leaf over it and leave it there until after sunrise. Then you will find the initial of your future husband's name traced on the flour. If the snail be quiet within the shell your
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Muiris Baimbeirí
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dromin Upper, Co. Kerry