School: Cill Cúlach
- Location:
- Kilcooly, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Lochlainn
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- (continued from previous page)Michaelmas day, for it is said that the Devil spits on them
On St John's night people light a bonfire as it is said that on that day the last of the Danes were expelled from Ireland. - On St Brigids eve the old people used to make a cross of unthreshed straw and fasten a potato on it with a pointed stick. They would then fasten the cross to the inside of their dwelling house. When they would begin sowing the potatoes they would take down that potato and cut it in three parts and plant it first in the field and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Richard Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Thomas Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Boston, Co. Galway