School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)
- Location:
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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- Chalk-Sunday.
It is the Sunday before Lent begins. It is the custom in some places to "chalk" old maids and bachelors.St John's Day.
Bonfires are lights - a bone to put in the fire. There is music and dancing.Halloweve.
Cabbage is stolen? from the neighbours gardens and the doors are beaten with it.
There is a feast, apples nuts and a barmbrack, with a ring in it. (a sloe and a nut too). Whoever gets the ring will get married first.- Collector
- Teddy Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumsna, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Guard Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumsna, Co. Leitrim