School: Kilsarcon (C.) (roll number 14798)
- Location:
- Kilsarkan West, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Caitrín Ní Dhálaigh
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- (continued from previous page)On Ash Wednesday people put blessed ashes on their foreheads to remind them Dust thou art and into dust thou shall return.
On Chalk Sunday people that were expected to be married and who did not marry are chalked.
Hot Cross buns are made on Good Friday and all the people go to the Church to do the Stations of the Cross and they go to the Graveyard to give rounds.
People eat a lot of eggs on Easter Sunday because long ago they used to fast from eggs during Lent.
People do not carry out milk on May day and long ago bad people used to get up very early and if there was a person they did not like they used to milk their cows, and then they would have the return of that persons milk for the year.
A lot of bonfires are lighted on St John's night.
People give rounds at the holy wells in Killarney and get water out of the wells on the 15th August.
It is said that anyone who dies during the twelve days of Christmas goes to Heaven. They say if you would not eat enough New year's eve, that you would not eat enough for the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Han Healy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocknaharan, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Andrew Leary
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Knocknaharan, Co. Kerry
