School: Cillín
- Location:
- Killeen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Hubáin
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- XML “Special Days of the Year and Customs and Superstitions Connected with them”
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- (continued from previous page)It is not right to put out money on New Year's day because you would not have any money to put out for the rest of the year. People milk their cows in the evening on New Year's Day.Christmas DaySome male thing should get up first on Christmas Day.St. Johns NightA fire is lit on that night and a coal is thrown into the crops. A bone is burned in the fire. The fire is allowed to burn out.
- Informant
- Charles Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowneden, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- James Mc Hale
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Muingrevagh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Martin Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moyny, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Kearney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowneden, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Tighe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Muingrevagh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Peter Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockaun, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Pat Tighe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cabintown, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Peter Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockaun, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Sam Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowneden, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Thomas Munnelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Muingrevagh, Co. Mayo