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School: Fahan (roll number 14479)

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Fahan, Co. Donegal
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Cáitlín L. Nig Uidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1109, Page 388

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    May herbs on May day.
    People bring in palm branches on Palm Sunday and kept them in for a year till next Palm Sunday.
    At the harvest time they wore harvest plait. They always kept a horse shoe in the out houses for luck.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Hamilton Ferguson
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Fahan, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mr Ferguson
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    54
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Castletown, Co. Donegal