School: Ceathrú Stialláin (Carrowsteelawn) (roll number 12555)
- Location:
- Carrowsteelaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Giollagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0096, Page 331
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- (continued from previous page)to celebrate Easter Sunday by eating as many eggs as they could. May Day Young people used to get up very early before the sun would rise on May Day and wash their faces in the dew and let the sun dry it because it was a belief that if they did that that they would not get sunburned for that summer. Some people would not let out milk on May Day. Long ago they used to steal the butter from each other. They used to go on that day to the place where their neighbors cows used to pass in and out and they used to take a bit of the dirt from the cows back and keep that and they used to claim then that they would have that cows butter for the year, ad they used to quarrel about this. One neighbor accusing the other about having his butter.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sessiagh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Clogher More, Co. Mayo
