School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)
- Location:
- Oughterard, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr M. S. Iognáid
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- XML “May Day”
- XML “Leigheasanna”
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- (continued from previous page)windows and over the doors in the cabins for fear fairies would take the milk.
If the people are churning on May day they put three coals under the churn. They tie May Pole to the cows tail because if she had milk the fairies would take it.
Some people tie a red rag to the horses tail and if she is a white horse they leave her in the barn all day because the fairies are fond of white horses.
The old people say that on the first morning of May that if you wash your face with the dew of the grass it is said you will not get sun burned in the Summer. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Pauline Joyce
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oughterard, Co. Galway