School: Maigh Locha (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Moylough, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Challaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0081, Page 227
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- (continued from previous page)them and they make crosses.
They are hung up around the house and in the outhouses.
When a person gets a new house built, they make a wooden cross, about a foot long, and nail it to some piece of wood near the ceiling.
It is left there until St. Bridid's Day and then it is taken down and it is replaced by a rush or straw ross.
The cause of making St. Brigid's Cross was. One day St. Brigid was passing a hut and she heard somebody moaning. When she entered she found a pagan man dying. She told him about Our Lord and how he died on the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patricia Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Moylough, Co. Galway
