School: Gort Leitreach (roll number 15960)
- Location:
- Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0214, Page 404
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- June 23rd is Bonfire night. Latterly the custom is dying out or has become just a children's festival. Down to the end of the nineteenth century it was one of the chief events of the year. Large quantities were collected, usually on high ground and at a cross roads.About nightfall a fire was lighted, and the assembled crowds cheered lustily and were answered by the crowds around other fires in the distance.If music was available there was sure to be a dance and very often money was collected with which to buy loaves. Somebody went away to milk cows in a nearby field, and a feast of boiled bread was thus provided. The old Bonfire was held a week later.
- Collector
- J. Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fearnaght, Co. Leitrim
