School: Cillín (Portomna)
- Location:
- Killeen South, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Dúnadhaighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0053, Page 0153
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- (continued from previous page)Michael get presents.
St. Martin’s Day: Everybody kills a goose or a cock and with the blood they sprinkle it on the walls of the cabins because St. Martin was ground to Death in a mill.
St. Thomas’s Day: the boys named Thomas get presents.
Hallow E’en: They bless their crops on that evening The young children dive into a tub of water. They also have a cake with a ring in it and whoever gets the ring is supposed to be married within the year.
St. Stephen’s Day: The day after Christmas Day. The boys also go out gathering money and they also have the wren.
New Year’s Eve: the people go to Confession.
New Year’s Day: they kill a goose for that day.
Epiphany: on that night they light twelve small candles in honour of the twelve days at Christmas.
- Collector
- Mary Treacy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brackery South, Co. Galway
