School: Cill a' Lachtáin
- Location:
- Killallaghtan, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó hAllmhuráin
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- (continued from previous page)falls on the 23 of June. On St. John's night the people of the district gather together at the nearest crossroads. Who-ever is the nearest to the cross roads brings a load of turf and puts down the bone-fire. The people spend a few hours singing and dancing and playing music When the bone-fire is near burned people take a coal of fire and they throw it on the crops so that they would be successful throughout the following year.
- It is the custom thatboys go out on New Year's day to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Hynes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oatfield, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Hynes
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Oatfield, Co. Galway