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School: Tulach Ruacháin

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Tulrohaun, Co. Mayo
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Mícheál de Bhaldraithe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0109, Page 667

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    would hold the money and another would play music and the rest would dance. When the bhrigdheógs are departing they would divide the money among themselves and they would go home.

    St. John's Day
    The feast day of St John is held on the twenty-second of June. On the of the feast the old gathered at a cross-road and they made a bone bon-fire in the centre of the cross-road with turf and a bone. If the bon-fire was held near the bog the people would go to the bog with a bag and each one would steal a bag of turf and carry the turf to the bon-fire or they would go to the neighbours turf in the garden. They would bring a bag of turf with them to the bon-fire. During the bon-fire
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Caulfield
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Culnacleha, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Patrick Caulfield
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Culnacleha, Co. Mayo