School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)
- Location:
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Gharaidh
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- (continued from previous page)Victory, Champions and Northern Stars.
- During the year we have a great many festivals and to some of these there is either some particular rejoicing or mourning attached and they are as follows: On St. Stephens day people go out "bandbegging" and with the money they get they divide it between them or else they all join in some house and have high novelty. On Shrove Tuesday night the woman of the house makes pancakes and all the family partakes of them. On Ash Wednesday ashes is blessed and put on the foreheads of the faithful. One Good Friday people refrain from talking for three hours in commemoration of Our Saviour's death. On Whit Sunday nobody is supposed to go near water, if anybody does misfortune is sure to follow. On St. Martin's day a hen is killed and its blood sprinkled in the four corners of the house. The feast of the Assumption is the last day for finishing the Irish Pilgrimage to Lough Derg. On Hallowe'en night there is always high novelty.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Hackett
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Gubagraffy, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Richard Hackett
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Gubagraffy, Co. Leitrim
