School: Baile an Daingin (C.) (roll number 4828)
- Location:
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire de Staic
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- On May Day people made the sign of the Cross with milk for good luck.
- Some women used get a twig of mountain ash and put it under the churn on May Day and so get all the butter from her neighbours churn, on condition that she said she wanted the butter from her neighbours churn while making her own.
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- Collector
- Kathleen Navin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Martin Costello
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Farmhill, Co. Mayo